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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] guaraguaito@lemmy.blahaj.zone 47 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This ain’t boring. It’s terrifying.

[–] jimmy90@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

in a country that could start acting against this virus right now with RNA vaccine research has probably closed down all those facilities

[–] Draegur@lemm.ee 43 points 10 months ago (3 children)

... fuck me dead it's infecting mammals now

and the current administration has shuttered the CDC and the NIH, and has withdrawn us from the WHO.

[–] I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 37 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's been in cows since last March. That's why all the ruckus about "muh rights to drink raw milk!" They were told not to (by the libs) because of bird flu, so... here we are.

https://www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/situation-summary/mammals.html#%3A%7E%3Atext=A+multistate+outbreak+of+HPAI+A%28H5N1%29+bird%2Cvirus+detections+in+more+than+200+mammals.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Can we start telling them that they can't shot themselves in the fucking face? Will that work?

[–] Draegur@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

wow if we could just 'liberal-jacket' an array of wildly self-destructive behaviors maybe we can leverage the trash into taking itself to the curb

[–] cheers_queers@lemm.ee 10 points 10 months ago

it has been for awhile. cats have been dying from it too

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago

withdrawn us from the WHO.

This is happening specifically in US because of its intensive dairy/poultry practices. It is a CDC matter. There happens to exist a chicken vaccine, but "concerns over exports of broiler chickens complying with foreign rules" stops its use. No idea if it makes the chickens unsafe to eat or if it's just never been tested.

[–] wanderwisley@lemm.ee 25 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Mark my words: there will be food shortages and food riots in America by April.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] wanderwisley@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago

True! Meats back on the menu fam!

[–] Ferrous@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago

Agreed. Start stocking cans and shotgun shells.

[–] LordKitsuna@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'll bookmark this comment, not because I don't think it will happen but because I think April is a little too soon I'm giving it more like July August

[–] wanderwisley@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Agreed at this point it’s honestly day to day with how things are changing for the worse. Be careful out there.

[–] meowmeowbeanz@sh.itjust.works 16 points 10 months ago

Oh, fantastic. The pandemic-industrial complex is back on the menu. We’ve spent decades industrializing agriculture into viral petri dishes, then act shocked when nature mutates around our hubris. Cows are just the latest domino—watch the blame shift to “wet markets” or migratory birds while factory farms keep hosing antibiotics into troughs.

But sure, let’s hyperventilate about proximity to doom. Never mind that zoonotic spillover’s been a ticking clock since we decided monoculture and profit margins trump ecosystem logic. The real virus here? Capitalism with a side of amnesia.

[–] El_guapazo@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

On Trump's mind, as long as no one reports it then it doesn't really exist. Remember when he said that we need to do testing for COVID to make the numbers go down? Same thing.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago

Everyone I know who was anti-vax first started with the position that covid was fake. They all look at avian flu as just yet another "attack for pure inconvenience" without any giant profit motive.

[–] UncleGrandPa@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

another pandemic with trump in charge?.......Oh fuck.

[–] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

Has he closed the CDC yet? Is that for next week?

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

So this will just fix itself.

I'm almost done transitioning my family to drink oat mil..juice instead.

[–] logi@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Don't worry, it'll be gone by easter.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Don't worry, Americans. JFK will protect you, won't he?

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

yes, he will. by advising people to drink raw milk...

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 1 points 10 months ago

That'll go down well, I'm sure of it.

[–] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago

Just in time for the hero to save the day with the ol' UV lung-bleach-brush combo move and horse dewormer aperitif.

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 6 points 10 months ago

I'm not worried about a new pandemic. Trumpy Dumpy, Muskie, and Mr. Brain Worms will get us though it; plus or minus a few million dead people.

[–] missandry351@lemmings.world 4 points 10 months ago

Can we please have a pandemic that wipes out the rich?

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Bird flu in cows?

Cows aren't birds, are these scientists stupid?

[–] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 9 points 10 months ago

I think your joke's not getting through to people :D

[–] MTK@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Fuck them vegans am i right?

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago