Today I've read about a bunch of farmers who probably had H5N1 but refuse to test, cats getting infected by drinking raw milk on farms, and a dolphin dead from it

Honestly not feeling very optimistic about this one. Wish I could trust any of the soothing things governments or media are saying about it but I won't fall into that trap again now I've seen how they behaved during the still ongoing covid pandemic

EDIT: And I should clarify I wasn't going out of my way to see H5N1 news, this is just stuff that has come across my feed organically in the 1 hour I've been awake lmao

So 2020 was covid, 2022 was monkeypox, 2024 might be bird flu. Hm. Love too live in the era of novel pandemics every 2 years

@eniko

H1N1/09 in 2009, called swine flu the one that pulled us into a false sense of security, we had hand sanitiser on every desk and phones were cleaned each week.

@simon_lucy @eniko I got that one back then. I was coughing so hard I got an umbilical hernia and was coughing up blood. Not pleasant.

@kojack @eniko

It shares the infect deep lung tissue behaviour of our favourite virus.