‘It’s completely out of control’: Scientists warn bird flu could spark a human pandemic in 2026 | BBC Science Focus Magazine

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‘It’s completely out of control’: Scientists warn bird flu could spark a human pandemic in 2026 | BBC Science Focus Magazine - Lemmy.World

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Great timing too, as fascism and anti-intellectialism grows and spreads. As the US is deregulating anything it can, threats of climate change become real… Many populations of birds and mammals are struggling to survive as it is, and throwing something this deadly into the mix doesn’t just hurt humans from our own pandemic, but it becomes a good issue as well. It’s a compounding issue. Even just birds, they eat bugs that are crop killers. So we’re losing meat and produce.
Hopefully this time more of the idiots will kill themselves by spitting into each other’s mouths when sick, or whatever other dumb ideas they come up with. That would solve a lot of problems for us.
Hey at least covid showed us we’re prepared to handle that really well

Trump Pandemic Response II: Electric Boogaloo

What’s an ICE agent to do with virus masking mandates???

Oh ffs please don’t
If you are an ICE agent; please do.
The right wing nut jobs are gonna say it was concocted to hinder the Trump presidency and that COVID was as well
Gotta say, a safe vaccine in under a year was pretty impressive. The rest… not so much.
Time to play Plague inc. Again
It started in Madagascar this time.
Play? Plur1bus. The game is just a cognitive motivation translator. Want verification of that? Lovecraft.

There are reasons for optimism: vaccines and antivirals should be effective against avian influenza, and the world is far better prepared thanks to lessons learned from COVID, particularly in diagnostics and global surveillance.

Oh you sweet summer child

The USA? No. The world as a whole? Probably.

Nah. On my 5 international flights around europe/middle-east this year I was the only person in mask.

Tbh, it took me like 2 covids, or whatever that was, to get back to masking in crowded places. And it’s hard to keep masking because social pressure is very much real.

This is stupid. We did not learn a thing