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Cant wait to learn about the next pandemic (on top of the current ongoing one) through healthcare workers anecdotally reporting a huge uptick in respiratory cases, and everyone else noticing a "really bad flu going around."
The first people will hear about this is when they start to see people with bleeding eyes
Trump supporters will say it's fake and a Chinese plot anyway
cool i hope trump’s bitch ass catches bird flu from mcnuggets. 50% mortality rate 🥰
Fellas, is it woke to think about health?
Dunno about that but it could very well be gay!
So this is only until Feb 1 atm and makes exceptions for communications “critical for health.” Which seems to mean things requiring immediate action - such as the FDA releasing info about an allergic reaction in a certain medication today. Regular reports are paused though.
Of course this was all explained in a later memo, while in the original guidance the pause was of an indeterminate length. Definitely has had a chilling effect, a lot of public health people are up in arms about this.
America can't be blamed for the next pandemic if we turn off all surveillance and early warning, gag scientists, stop any reporting on it, stop looking for it, etc. Then when it does break out into a pandemic there won't be any solid proof of where it came from and we can blame China (or maybe Mexico since this is Trump) for that as well.
Y'all better be masking.
And quit casually visiting poultry farms with your homeschooled kids to show them how nature works
“Poultry farm” “how nature works”
Pick one!
lmao sure, fuck it, why not
How is the US going to go to war with China when they're killing off their own citizens
I'm starting to think this empire isn't run by the most strategically competent crew
cool we're going back to the Spanish flu style of virus prevention
Nothing to see here gif from naked gun
uhhh what?
it's the AMERICAN FLU EVERYBODY
Burgerflu
Wall Street regime strong-arms health agencies and imposes silence order on scientists amidst growing concerns of potentially fatal contagious disease on the loose
Bird flu? Yeah we don't know if they do that 
Underappreciated pun
Maybe it's good I lost my job and am having trouble finding work...
McBirdflu double coming right up. It's what the 
ordered.
very normal thing to order
Letting chicken flu run rampant instead of culling the sick is one way to bring down egg prices.
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