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How America Lost Control of the Bird Flu, Setting the Stage for Another Pandemic

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How America Lost Control of the Bird Flu, Setting the Stage for Another Pandemic - KFF Health News

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just in time for the diaper-in-chief to be crowned again.
The 1918 “SpanishFlu” (though it’s believed to have crossed over in Kansas) was bird flu, if you want a preview of what could be coming.
My go-to reaction these days:
You can't lose control of something you never tried to control
- It doesn’t exist if you don’t test for it.
If you want to get scared, read what Michael Lewis has to say about the quality of public health in the US, as exposed by how poorly it reacted at a rank-and-file level to Covid-19.
https://www.npr.org/2021/05/03/991570372/michael-lewis-the-premonition-is-a-sweeping-indictment-of-the-cdc
Yay! Like my fourth once in a lifetime event is coming up!
- But hey, you can totally knock that down a couple by not buying a house and not having kids
California already declared state of emergency
Has anyone else noticed there are not eggs in the stores? I’m willing to bet this is because of bird flu. If you still have them, it’s not because you’re safe, it’s because your local authorities are not looking for it.
- There's eggs in my stores in California. For $8 PER FUCKING DOZEN.
  
  in California
  I’ve identified your first mistake
  (jk hehe)
  
  We are up to $4 a dozen thought ours were expensive
- For once in my life I actual purchased something before it shot up in price. Got two cartons for $2 each a couple weeks ago.
All we can hope for is a repeat of last time but only in one aspect. It kills more Republicans than science and health believers.

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