So Bird Flu is coming for humans. The conditions for it moving into humans are perfect in the US: it’s spreading rapidly through commerical herds and flocks, with minimal attempts to restrict it due to prioritising public health over money. The more animals it is incubated in and the more contact they have with humans the higher the chances a mutation will successfully jump species.
We have a US President who has already presided over a chaotic and poor pandemic response. Now he is back, and he’s withdrawn the US from the World Health Organization, is letting a moronic billionaire disrupt the CDC, and has now appointed a conspiracy theory loving anti-vaxxer.
The conditions are already perfect for a flu pandemic, and now the conditions in the US are rapidly heading towards perfect conditions for a devastating pandemic. And it will affect the whole world as a poorly controlled initial out break will lead to rapid global spread. The only hope left is that a mild version of the Bird Flu mutates into humans, rather than the deadly version we’ve seen devastating birds and that has caused high mortality in previous small human outbreaks.
Things are gonna get real fucking bad real fucking fast for working class people in this country.
Economy is gonna get crashed by their decisions. Prices for food, water, electricity, and first aid are gonna go through the roof.
People will suddenly lack access to medical care and with loss of federal funding hundreds of small rural hospitals may shut down.
Disease will explode and they will push hard to ban wearing masks (some states have already done this.)
As someone who is immune compromised every aspect of this shit makes me fucking furious.
Sure, it might kill me, but more importantly, it’s going to kill hundreds of thousands.
Start looking into Great Depression recipes now. Get involved in Mutual Aid Groups now. Start getting organized on secure messaging services right the fuck now.
Be prepared to need to tighten your belt for a month during a General Strike.
He looks how I feel about this confirmation: WTF
Mitch McConnell’s one principled vote of his life
He only did it because he could without it changing the result.
Did you guys ever see those memes on Reddit ridiculing health ministers who were obese? Reason informs us that it’s wrong to think a job like that needs someone who appears personally healthy rather than the education and training.
It’s like people take the logic of TV and commercials to be the Platonic ideal, where a real person is only the imperfect copy trying to live up to the image.
Anyway, RFK jr. sure is in good shape for his age. He must know a lot about health.
