What a complete lack of basic science education does to a mfer
Politicians are like we need to compete with China meanwhile our people are over here like “one bird flu smoothie please”
Politicians are like we need to compete with China meanwhile our people are over here like “one bird flu smoothie please”
Oh, man - did that make me laugh! But then I actually sighed. Fuck.
Site tagline material right here.
Might be a great time to stock up on N95s
And canned food.
Hope you have a bidet this time.
Remember you also need toilet paper. The false prophets will come to you and say the bidet eliminates the need for toilet paper, but it’s a lie.
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Your comment reminded me I had entirely forgotten to make a post - https://hexbear.net/post/2523061
I admire your optimism
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Rather have stuff on hand to get more than have none.
(Not so) fun fact, there are several US states which prohibit the direct sale of unpasteurized milk, but allow the owner to drink milk from the cow, so they exploit the loophole by having buyers purchase a fractional share of the cow so that they can drink the milk.
fitting since fractional ownership is one of the key technologies needed for capitalism
I had no idea. That’s fucking awful.
by far one of the worst parts about living in the United States is that you’re surrounded by these people every goddamn day
It’s just that little bit worse when you remember that cows with H5N1 produce weirdly thick and yellow milk
I honestly thought you were full of shit…
cows that get sick with H5N1 begin producing milk that is thick and yellowish
weirdly thick and yellow milk
That’s the extra yummy mucus.
In the States, they can charge extra for that.
Gentle folk of Hexbear, I suggest investing in canned goods and shotguns over the short term
Can openers are much easier to use.
But not as much fun
why waste space with canned goods when you can have an astonishingly large tub of dried beans instead
Fruit is nice sometimes
Scurvy
Dried grain can get infected with pests.
:beanis-cool:
Is there a place I can find a straightforward summary of the characteristics of this virus? Or is a lot of data collection being stalled by the CDC thus far?
Edit: Why the fuck are we not doing wastewater data? The fatality rate in humans is 60% but with a huge fucking asterisk that milder cases probably aren’t being counted? What fucking use is that? So the fatality rate is “somewhere between 0 and 60 percent and who the fuck knows?”
It’s truly astonishing how the biggest takeaway from COVID rocking the US was that we just don’t do public health as a concept anymore
To avoid a panic. The CDC specifically told scientists that had developed wastewater tests for H5N1 not to start testing.
If we stop testing, we have very few cases
strikes againDeath to America
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I get the joke, but talking more seriously, a pandemic disease outbreak anywhere in the world is a threat to all. I doubt it could be contained within one country.
I doubt it could be contained within one country.
Definiely not if that country is USA
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Technically, if someone were to destroy all cars, aircraft, and boats leaving the country, the damage to other countries would be minimized.
That could work as long as you have perfect enforcement including you having control over the ultra-wealthy, and nobody who’s doing the enforcement is coming into contact with any debris.
Y’know I always thought Nurgle was the chaos god with the worst offer but I guess there are more plague enthusiasts than I thought.
deeply unserious society
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Vaxxed?
imagine if you will, the richest society on earth. now imagine it’s so sick that citizens voluntarily try to give themselves novel avian flus.
Other raw milk drinkers, such as Peg Coleman, a medical microbiologist who runs Coleman Scientific Consulting, a Groton, N.Y.-based food safety consulting company, claimed the government’s warnings have no basis in reality.
How did this person get a degree?
Oh hey, I looked into this one when one of my friend’s aunts went on about raw milk.
So basically, she’s done research on the microbiota of raw vs pasteurised milk and concluded the beneficial bacteria of raw milk can outweigh the risks for non-immunocompromised people. People can still get pasteurised if they wish. Another argument is that products with a higher fatality rate are still legal.
However, the flaws in her research don’t account for are this:
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If huge corporations are allowed to simply not sterilise their milk, they will do so, meaning raw will be the cheaper product and therefore more likely to be purchased by the average person, who may or may not understand the risks involved. A struggling family doing their groceries will choose the cheaper milk and possibly put their elderly/infant family members at risk.
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Her research is done with samples of raw milk that are a lot more controlled. The difference in risks between a sample of milk from a healthy cow directly into a sterile vessel into a lab environment is vastly different to milk produced en masse under capitalism, where cows are crowded together in battery farms, fed with the cheapest grains available, and milked with the same equipment that’s milked a thousand other cows, and all the milk is pooled together where it’s impossible to separate “safer” raw milk and contaminated milk from sick cows are then to be cooled and bottled. Her research simply does not account for the corners that will definitely be cut in an industrial capitalist scale
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Dying from alcohol poisoning because you drank perfectly legal 180 proof alcohol is different to dying from H5N1 milk because alcohol poisoning isn’t contagious.
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Worse, a degree in medical microbiology
jesus fucking christ
What is it with people named McAfee being absolutely unhinged
Angloids will literally line themselves up to het infected with the Black Death when cases od that start to inevitably reappear.
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