What’s going on here is that they’re not allowed to publish data about actual issues under the Trump/Musk coup rules, because that might benefit regular folks instead of billionaires.
If its able to go from
birds -> cats -> humans
why wouldn’t it be able to go
birds -> cats -> human -> human?
Because there’s a whole range of processes involved in whether or not a pathogen can infect an organism (mode of transmission, various barriers including immune response, etc.) and a whole different range that determines whether or not an infected organism can spread a pathogen (mode of transmission again, viral load, vector capacity and competence, etc). For instance: assume the pathogen can infect an organism but can’t replicate often enough to reach the required viral load in the host to spread further via it’s usual mode of transmission. We’d end up with a dead end host instead of a pathogen reservoir/vector and the chain of infection would stop right there. That can be seen in the West Nile Virus for example when it infects humans or horses instead of it’s normal host: birds. I don’t know enough about influenza to tell whether that’s a thing here or not but I hope it clarifies why infections are often not that straight forward especially if they involve zoonotic events.
I’ve gone from blithely accepting inevitable human extinction to actively rooting for it.
That’s what these assholes want. Nihilism.
Don’t give in.
I don’t think it’s nihilism. I mean the idea of the extinction of my species makes me happy. That doesn’t sound like nihilism to me. I’m not sure if there’s a word for it though.
There’s a word for what would make you happy based on how it would happen: genocide.
No, that implies one people wiping out another people. I’m looking for an extinction of the entire species. Equal opportunity and all that.
When you wipe out your entire species because you are intentionally ignoring and even fanning the flames of a pandemic, that is genocide. It’s the largest possible genocide.
If they have to resort to those 10-second auto-delete snaps to get public health messages out, so be it, I suppose. Better than nothing.
Your tax dollars at work.
I hate how accurate this is currently
HeThey haven’t just embargoed science, they’ve obfuscated credibility for the whole world and people will die.Don’t look up!
I’ve watched that movie at least seven times. Exposure therapy maybe. Doesn’t even feel like satire.
whether it’s plague, bullets, climate apocalypse, or meteor, whatever it is, i wish it would just hurry up and end us already
Don’t forget nuke. I’m thinking those are now more likely than they have been since Cold War days.
They do keep teasing us with that damn, sexy doomsday clock.
Just vaporize me already.
When you think about it nukes are the ultimate Chekhov’s Gun.
Was that why he was looking for the nuclear wessels?
Lol different Chekhov. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chekhov's_gun?wprov=sfla1
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So how do I access these brief posts? Is there an archive somewhere?
I’m not sure; try asking the reporter
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If you had read the article you would know that they are talking about two instances with house cats and their owners. House cats appear to be highly susceptible to this strain of H5N1 and it is highly lethal to them. If a new strain has appeared that can spread from people to cats and from cats to people, that is a very, very bad thing.
People who let their cats go outside would be as serious risk because cats can easily catch it from wild birds and then infect their owners. And every single human who catches the virus is a billion rolls of the dice for the virus to further mutate to spread from human to human.
Birds dying to HPAI are very easy to catch too, so even the Garfield’s out there can be exposed. I had a red tailed hawk crash out in my backyard and it was dead 24 hours later. I put it into a box (after it crashed and didn’t move for 20 mins) but no rehab would take it, because there is nothing that can be done to help them.
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Your denial of health facts, in a thread about a government hiding health facts, got you off to a bad start with people.
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It’s infecting housecats too.
Housecats absolutely slaughter bird populations on the daily.
Not my Mittens, he’s a good boy!
Not my Mittens, cause I keep that fucker inside!
I would imagine Mittens rules the inside with a Velvet Paw.
Wonder if you can you rent a bunch of them on a temporary basis? Invasive european starlings have overtaken my neighborhood and pushed a lot of native species out. Not only would that help the problem; it would be fucking adorable.
Like buying ladybugs for your garden; you just crack open a crate of cats.
I don’t think you understand the situation. The cats can spread the disease to humans. My dog found a birds wing from somewhere and brought it into the house. That was 3 weeks ago, so I assume we’re good. But the point is that pets bring this disease closer to humans, making it more likely to go H2H as it progresses. Having more cats interacting with birds makes the spread more likely, not less.
Obviously the rent-a-cats would be vaccinated.
There are currently no vaccines for avian influenza. Your cat in the box may have to wait for science to catch up
Also, the US government will do everything it can to obstruct research into vaccines or the distribution of vaccines, and they will oppose all other health measures to combat this disease too. I hope sane governments elswehere are on this.
There are cats and European starlings everywhere, extra cats will only hurt the situation. It would be basically impossible to remove starlings at a neighborhood level. Just plant more wild flowers and put up nest boxes starlings can’t use, or put up bird feeders if you really want to see other birds.
