H5N1 Bird Flu Isn’t a Human Pandemic—Yet. American Contrariness Could Turn It into One

https://lemmy.eco.br/post/5721064

H5N1 Bird Flu Isn’t a Human Pandemic—Yet. American Contrariness Could Turn It into One - Brasil

> When H5N1 avian influenza started spreading among dairy cattle across the U.S. this year, regulators warned against consuming unpasteurized milk. What happened? Raw milk sales went up. > Distributors of this unsafe-for-human-consumption product deny H5N1—which has the potential to sicken millions of people—is a danger. Dairy farmers decline to allow disease detectives onto their properties.

“It not that people are stupid or ignorant or that they don’t know what the science is,” he said. “They’re motivated to reject it on the basis of partisanship, their political ideology, their religion, their cultural values.”

I wonder why he doesn’t figure “The government has provided misinformation recently on health topics” into his list of reasons people don’t trust government health information.

what misinformation
This is what I would like to know as well.
OP is an anti-vaxxer and COVID denier so, adjust your bullshit meter accordingly.
I’m sorry what? How am I anti-vax and a covid denier? Did you just make that up for no reason,

Regardless of intention, the US government put its stamp of approval on a lot of misinformation during the pandemic. Whether that was an attempt to deceive or just incompetence, it doesn’t inspire trust at all.

This is just blatant dog-whistling. What misinformation, bruh. Share your crazy conspiracy theories so I can dismiss them out of hand.