1y ago

Person is diagnosed with bird flu after being in contact with cows in Texas

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- And unless everyone is willing to go 100% vegan tomorrow
  we do it until we get a new pandemic
  we wait until climate change, 3°C from food production, destroys enough crops that agriculture collapses
  we eat more of it to die sooner so we don't have to face the consequences of our actions.
  And no, I don't belive 100% tommorow is the only way to avoid that, that was your wording. But it has to and will change.
- And unless everyone is willing to go 100% vegan tomorrow, we need farmers
  Safe to say vegans also need farmers. We just don’t need animal agriculture.
Don't mess with Texas, also don't visit Texas or eat anything Texas produces.
- Don't mess with Texas. Don't mess with anything Texas produces. Don't mess with things that have messed with Texas. Avoid Texas at all costs.
  
  Texas has been seized by the SCP foundation.
  
  Texas secession when?
- Don't mess with animals. This is not a Texas problem, outbreaks have been all over the world and the animal agriculture is the perfect breeding ground. The only question is where will it develop the human to human infection feature. When it happens you can only blame others if your state or country has no animal agriculture as it could happen anywhere.
  
  I didn’t realise bird flu wasn’t transmitted between humans already tbh. I caught Swine flu (H1N1) from another human a decade or so ago.
- Good thing there's nothing astronomical happening in Texas next week that only happens once every decade or so in the US, which people might flock to Texas to stand in crowds to see before dispersing back home across the Southern US. 😅
  
  The eclipse is happening in more places than Texas.
It's only got a 56% fatality rate, some of you will die but the economy must have it's workers pronto. I expect the COVID playbook will be used again, tell you it's droplets when it's airborne, push the vaccine as the solution and shove you back to work.
- At least the housing crisis will be fixed
  
  Also amble parking.
- Buy toilet paper.
  
  Yeah that's a good point actually how was that never a conspiracy theory? It's the most obvious one.
  Covid was made up by Big Bog Role to sell more stock, no nanobots required
Whaaat? A disease stemming from our exploitation of animals?? Surely that is something new and never heard of before!
"Let's pack hundreds of animals together in a confined space, what's the worst that could happen?"
- looks around the office cubical farms *
  they form a call centre?
Cows aren't birds, stupid.
- Yeah but haven't you "herd" of Buffalo wings? Touche!
- And therein lies the issue.
It sounds like they only have eye redness, for now. How long can we expect the transformation to take?
Spitballin here, but maybe it'd even be called cow flu if it wasn't so bad for some rich people's business. That's probably just the cynicism talking, though.
The fact seems to be that many of these flu's are interspecies and the origin seems largely irrelevant. It's my understanding that covid-19 originated in pangolins, but "pangolin flu" didn't seem to stick, did it?
I'd be happy if someone with actual epidemiological knowledge could chime in here.
- It's because they're infected with avian influenza and 'cow flu' doesn't exist afaik.
- Influenza is a type of virus, completely unrelated to coronavirus. And COVID-19 originated in bats, not pangolins.
- The pangolin transmission is still just a theory based on the fact that you’d have to eat way too much bat to infect yourself based on that.
  The only certainty is that it was once transmitted by bats.
I couldn't find a good fucked bingo gif for this.
Oh no.
Now, when you say "in contact"...
I wonder what all the headline could have said he’s been in contact with. His wife? Car? A BLT? 3 children in a trench coat?
"Batman accused of using drugs mule to solve monkey puzzle"
honey where is my flame thrower?
Someone gave this flu the wrong name.

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