Wake the hell up -- bird flu is real and it's coming.
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Wake the hell up -- bird flu is real and it's coming. The only question is how virulent and deadly this one is. Worst case, it makes covid, which killed several hundred million people, look like the mildest of colds.
The world's governments are hopelessly incapable -- at the moment -- of dealing with this.
https://fortune.com/well/2024/11/08/bird-flu-human-spreadsafeguard-people-livestock/
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@dangillmor There’s also a vaccine for humans in the event that H5N1 becomes an issue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avian_influenza#Vaccine
Farm workers should wear PPE around infected cows and stay away from people and animals when they are sick. If they do that, then humans will be presenting less attack surface for the virus to learn to adapt to us.
Sick pay is the big impediment, so we should fight for that in order to win.