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[-] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 73 points 1 month ago

Somehow I doubt that we'll do nation blaming, like "China virus", as we did with COVID. This will just be "well nothing could have prevented it".

Also this vegan wants to remind you all that BOTH pandemics came from commercial animal consumption.

[-] FunkYankkkees@hexbear.net 38 points 1 month ago

If this spreads I will definitely be calling it "Yankee plague"

[-] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 27 points 1 month ago

Burgerland plague.

[-] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

But that’s Covid!

[-] Poison_Ivy@hexbear.net 32 points 1 month ago

Soybeans never spread a disease that killes millions…

[-] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 29 points 1 month ago

so-far deregulation machine go brrr.

[-] Dessa@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago

I'm watching you, Poison Ivy

[-] Enjoyer_of_Games@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

got nothing on sugarcane's kill count

[-] Poison_Ivy@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

Dont look inside my greenhouse

[-] AvocadoVapelung@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago

they're going to blame undocumented farmworkers doomjak

[-] SummerIsTooWarm@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago

The "Spanish Flu" also likely originated form the US but wasn't named accordingly (Due to secrecy during WWI).

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 44 points 1 month ago

If we called it the Califlu do you think it would get red states to start masking again?

[-] Enjoyer_of_Games@hexbear.net 60 points 1 month ago

again? they didn't even mask for the "chinaflu"

at this point I don't think you could even get blue states to mask up if you could prove the virus originated from trump personally.

[-] Azarova@hexbear.net 40 points 1 month ago

After everything that's happened I would be genuinely surprised if even half this country bothered to take precautions for this one. this-is-fine

[-] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 28 points 1 month ago

A small part of me wants this to happen to make people mask again. But really that ain't gonna happen, and this is just gonna make things even worse.

[-] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 36 points 1 month ago

Trump handed Biden a flu, it's only fair Biden hand Trump a flu too. All things balance the-democrat oooaaaaaaauhhh the-republican

[-] mustGo@hexbear.net 36 points 1 month ago

The big wet boys are back in town. trump as Nurgle chaos god of disease with followers

[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago

Praise be unto the plaguefather.

[-] DivineChaos100@hexbear.net 30 points 1 month ago

Biden culling the population once more before he gets to enjoy retirement.

[-] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Blood for the blood god, skulls for the skull throne, Jack biden-harbinger

[-] BoxedFenders@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

The Darkest of Brandons

[-] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 29 points 1 month ago

u/birdflufutures

[-] radio_free_asgarthr@hexbear.net 28 points 1 month ago

Ah cool, if only I could make infectious disease into a hobby. I love the four horseman and civilizational collapse.

[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 21 points 1 month ago

On the bright side amerikkka

[-] RaisedFistJoker@hexbear.net 26 points 1 month ago

does the proliferation indicate we're not dealing with the 60% mortalitiy kind of H5, since assumedly we'd be seeing scores of bodies in the streets, or do we not know yet

[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 29 points 1 month ago

This is likely from cows, not human to human transmission.

so-far

[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

~~Livestock manure isn't supposed to enter municipal wastewater. It typically gets composted or tossed in an anaerobic digester.~~

Never mind, according to the CDC the source could be milk from infected animals.

[-] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 23 points 1 month ago

Some talking heads on the news are saying it's "like the flu". I'm not saying they're wrong, but we went through this already on 2020. I'm just suspicious until we know more.

[-] borschtisgarbo@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 1 month ago

Is this another knock on effect of climate change?

[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 39 points 1 month ago

Maybe on the wild birds' side, but capitalists are turning it into a full on pandemic through factory farming practices while the US government politely asks them to act responsibly.

[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

Call of C'flulu

[-] boiledfrog@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago

I'd say yes and no, not necessarily due to changing temperatures but due to huge quantities of bird livestock (in absolute cosmic horror conditions) but I guess loss of habitat and a polluted environment doesn't help much, animal industry is for sure the biggest drive of viral/bacterial diseases. Which is kinda poetically fitting tbh, considering the nightmare modern day factory farming is.

[-] Aradina@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

It's mostly an effect of meat consumption.

[-] bufalo1973@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 month ago

Can it be that California makes more tests?

[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 35 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You do realize how much worse it would be right? Like if that is the case and this diagram is underselling it we are super super fucked.

[-] SmokinStalin@hexbear.net 32 points 1 month ago

This is sewage tests

[-] Aradina@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 month ago
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