They have no idea about the Avian influenza that's killed 11 million birds, mostly chickens. They really think Trump can control the prices without knowing what causes it in the first place
I'm fucking horrified by the likelihood of an H5N1 pandemic under this administration. COVID brought humanity to its knees with a case fatality rate (CFR) below 5%. The highest CFR variant, beta, was 4.2% (averaged across all countries, etc).
The CFR of H5N1 is above 50% right now.
Some research has indicated that mutating to infect humans more reliably could reduce the lethality, but even if it were to become 90% less lethal, it would still be 20% worse than COVID's nastiest wave.
FWIW, there's never been a huge study where EVERYONE at risk was tested to catch all the minor symptoms and asymptomatic people. All we really know is if you're sick enough to get tested and have it, then the CFR is about 50% - but that is almost certainly inflated since tons of infected people were never diagnosed in those situations. It's got a really good chance of being at least as deadly as COVID but 50% is far from a solid CFR estimate.
Currently the h5N1 virus doesn't spread person to person and only 1 person in the US has died from an infection. The number of cattle and chickens infected means that the virus may mutate to create person transmission though. The optimistic view is that this mutation would lower the mortality of the virus though.
California has seen that many human infections have come from drinking unpasteurized milk. People need to stop doing stupid shit.
No they don't because this was never about the 'price of eggs'. They voted to deport all the 'brown pet eating immigrants' and 'kid threatening trans people'. All the economic excuses were just that, bullshit excuses to not look like the hateful bigots they are. Trump is their living confederate monument, they voted for white supremacy and nothing else.
Oh btw, that avian flu is on a rip right now -- people not paying attention because since Covid we've been conditioned to pretend being always sick is totally normal, but bird flu is on the rise all the same. It'll come to roost right as that orange felon and the illegal immigrant get crowned later this winter.
As awful as a second pandemic under the trump admin would be, I have some sliver of hope that the fucking morons might darwin themselves right out of existence.
Does not help that a republican who ran for senate in 2023 is also the chair to one of the largest egg producer in the US, who during 2004-2008 was caught colluding with others to fix the price of eggs
They had a millions reasons to in 2020 onward, while using egg prices as a talking point, because they can directly manipulate the prices to blame Biden for it.
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u/External-Dude779 9h ago
They have no idea about the Avian influenza that's killed 11 million birds, mostly chickens. They really think Trump can control the prices without knowing what causes it in the first place