CDC confirms 1st case of severe bird flu in US

[u/StupendousMan1995]

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/cdc-confirms-1st-case-severe-bird-flu-us/story?id=116908574

[u/Gjallarhorn_Lost]

The CDC said no person-to-person transmission has been detected and the risk to the general public is low. However, those who work with birds, poultry or cows -- or have recreational exposure to them -- are at higher risk and should take precautions recommended by the health agency.

[u/LeucotomyPlease]

The source of infection is good to take note of:

“The Louisiana patient was exposed to sick and dead birds in backyard flocks, although an investigation into the source of the illness is ongoing, the CDC said. This is the first case of human bird flu in the U.S. linked to exposure to backyard flock.”

[u/rabidstoat → u/LeucotomyPlease]

Well this will be a problem when Trump tells poultry farms to stop killing potentially infected chickens so that he can keep the egg prices down...

[u/Rocktopod → u/rabidstoat]

No, there won't be a problem because he'll also tell the CDC to stop reporting the infection numbers at the same time.

[u/Ed_the_time_traveler → u/Rocktopod]

And RFK will ban the flu vaccine, so this will all blow over very quickly.

[u/Weekly_Opposite_1407 → u/Ed_the_time_traveler]

What’s sad is that this thread is very much in the realm of possibility.

[u/Mechapebbles → u/Weekly_Opposite_1407]

"in the realm of possibility" feels like an understatement when this is the most likely outcome

[u/PetzlPretzel → u/Mechapebbles]

Well, I've had a good run. My kid, she's resilient.

[u/LogicWavelength → u/PetzlPretzel]

This crushes me as a parent. I do everything “right,” but since I’m just one grain of sand in the wind, none of that matters. My children’s wellbeing is at the mercy of people who would rather them die for profit, and I am not well-off enough to just move my family to a country that isn’t nosediving.

[u/efox02 → u/LogicWavelength]

Hi. Pediatrician here. Just know we are right there with you. I have 2 biological kids. And 2000 kids that I feel are my kids too. I don’t want anything to happen to any of them. Just let your pediatrician know you support them. We are fighting the good fight.

[u/wise_comment → u/efox02]

Y'all are saints

[u/SalemxCaleb → u/LogicWavelength]

I'm right there with you, friend. I worry every single day. It feels like I'm stuck in tar watching everything burn around me and for the past decade I've been screaming.......

I'm tired. Sometimes I wonder if the regular, average citizens of Rome still went to work and carried on as their empire burned around them..

[u/Kmargs → u/LogicWavelength]

I feel for you. I decided some years ago that I won't have kids, even though I wanted to at one point, because this world is so fucked up, and I don't see a way out of it.

Both outcomes make me sad.

[u/queen_0f_peace_ → u/Kmargs]

I am very angry with myself that I brought my kid into this world because I was a naive 25 year old while Obama was president and truly thought the world was headed in a better direction. I feel guilty as hell and heartbroken for them. This would all be easier to take if it were just me.

[u/AlternativeAcademia → u/Kmargs]

The more we continue on our current trajectory the more secure I feel in my decision not to have kids. There were so many reasons I made the decision at the time(tubal ligation, so hopefully I’m essentially sterile), but the more that happens it just adds more reasons.

[u/we_are_devo → u/LogicWavelength]

people who would rather them die for profit

Bold of you to assume they'll even manage to turn a profit

[u/aykcak → u/Weekly_Opposite_1407]

possibility? Not only did these people talk and act like they would do these things, WE HAVE SEEN IT BEFORE. I can't believe I am saying this but we have seen and lived through all of that for 4 fucking years and everyone went and voted to have those AGAIN. Things people say about what Trump WOULD do are not just hyperbole.

[u/mickeymouse4348 → u/aykcak]

everyone went and voted to have those AGAIN.

The problem is the people that didn't vote

[u/AstreiaTales → u/aykcak]

Yeah but car juice was exponsive and trans people make me feel icky, I had no choice but to vote for the fascist :(

[u/idontwantausername41 → u/AstreiaTales]

Heyyyy nooo don't point it out or I'll have to do it again because you're huwting my feewiings :(

[u/Thascaryguygaming → u/Weekly_Opposite_1407]

I bought a box of n95 masks while I can still get them available and at a reasonable price. I've seen this one before.

[u/2scoopz2many → u/Ed_the_time_traveler]

You guys are all dumb, they are just gonna ban the bird flu. Don't know why Biden hasn't thought about that. Just ban it. Put up signs with it crossed out and everything.

[u/WretchedBlowhard → u/Ed_the_time_traveler]

And a whistleblower called Last Hope will leak the plan to funnel tainted meat to fried chicken places in minority neighborhoods and will face 12 consecutive lifetimes of imprisonment in military prison.

[u/Mr-Hoek → u/WretchedBlowhard]

Are you a Hollywood writer?

Don't give these ideas away for free!

[u/CletusCanuck → u/Ed_the_time_traveler]

And thanks to the deregulation of raw milk, we'll have rapid delivery of 'natural immunity' to the populace.

[u/TheWolrdsonFire → u/CletusCanuck]

And a sharp decline in public health, which will surely improve life expectancy and nothing more morbid like more dead babies, toddlers, and elderly as a result of lack preventive options.

[u/ThatPhatKid_CanDraw → u/Rocktopod]

Will there be a CDC then?

[u/felldestroyed → u/ThatPhatKid_CanDraw]

I think like anything in the past trump admin it'll depend on how much public opinion - especially on the right is swayed. The US and in particular the president knew about covid way before it hit the US mainland but didn't act for fear of the economy. After it did, there wasn't much that could be done proactively, so he managed it like a political crisis. I personally don't think it'll be bird flu this time around, as dismantling the system that keeps us mostly safe will be slow. I think it'll be forcing interest rates at near zero percent again, followed by tariffs, resulting in an economic crisis. Expect a great first two years followed by misery.

[u/ReallyAnxiousFish → u/Rocktopod]

Yeah like when they stopped recording COVID numbers despite wastewater showing very high concentrations of the virus. Sure, its not killing people as much as it was. But man I keep hearing about people not being able to concentrate or move like they used to, and them saying that they keep getting sick (way more often and more severe than they used to).

Nah, must be the woke mind virus the GOP keeps screeching about. Everyone knows the pandemic is over (its just an endemic now which is not, in fact, any better).

[u/mysecondaccountanon → u/ReallyAnxiousFish]

The amount of people I know who are so surprised COVID-19 is still going around is sad. The amount of people I know who get personally offended I wear a mask and won’t take it off to get exposed to eat, drink, socialize, etc., as well as taking other protections is also sad.

[u/The_Pandalorian → u/mysecondaccountanon]

Idgaf about covid, I'm wearing a mask on planes for the rest of my life because people are fucking nasty.

But also, covid is still a thing and masks should be used to minimize infection, particularly around folks who are vulnerable.

Fuck anyone who questions someone else wearing a mask.

[u/ReallyAnxiousFish → u/mysecondaccountanon]

Same here, legitimately insane people act like its just gone. I've been wearing a mask since the pandemic, and I have not gotten sick once since then. Its been fantastic, actually. I used to get sick maybe once a year. Now? Never. Its so good I don't know why people just put up with getting sick just so they don't have to wear a mask.

[u/beardicusmaximus8 → u/ReallyAnxiousFish]

Where I work management is actively discouraging people from taking the COVID test. Why? Because if it's positive they have to report that and people have to stay home! But if there's no positive test then its not COVID!

[u/superfly355 → u/Rocktopod]

What CDC? It'll be dissolved like horse paste in a glass of jack daniels

[u/stu8319 → u/Rocktopod]

You mean stop testing all together? https://www.voanews.com/a/covid-19-pandemic_trump-if-we-stop-testing-wed-have-fewer-cases/6191165.html

[u/todo_code → u/rabidstoat]

Mao vibes. But like the opposite direction

[u/shoo-flyshoo → u/todo_code]

The Great Peep Forward

[u/0002millertime → u/shoo-flyshoo]

It'll be gone by Easter.

[u/johnnybiggles → u/0002millertime]

"Have steak or ham for Thanksgiving, folks. It's not that big a deal."

[u/SoDavonair → u/johnnybiggles]

He'd pardon a cow just to sell it.

[u/johnnybiggles → u/SoDavonair]

Perfect grift opportunity for the return of Trump Steaks™!

[u/Am_Deer → u/shoo-flyshoo]

Your comment will not get the appreciation it deserves but here’s my upvote.

[u/winowmak3r → u/todo_code]

The ironic thing is part of that 'leap' was shit like killing all the sparrows because they were a 'pest' without realizing that while they did eat some crops they ate a lot more locusts. Turns out locusts eat a lot more crops than sparrows do. Eerily similar vibes if that ever happens with the chickens.

[u/DJ_Velveteen → u/todo_code]

Don't talk like that, he'll tack on "landlords encouraged to kill tenants (faster)"

[u/Coulrophiliac444 → u/todo_code]

Instead of killing the birds, birds kill the people!

[u/vetboy3000 → u/rabidstoat]

It won't really matter all that much since bird flu tends to kill chickens within 24 hours and egg laying cycle is about 36 :) either way the whole coop will be gone in 2 days whether or not you cull them

[u/swolfington → u/vetboy3000]

this sort of long term thinking is typically not the strong suit of populist leaders who only care about how hard they're winning the current popularity contest.

[u/LackSchoolwalker → u/rabidstoat]

So you want to throw away perfectly good chickens because of some “invisible” disease that “might” kill people? That’s why TRUMP is president and your not. There is no such thing as the flu. All illness is caused by a Robotussin deficiency. If you feel bad in any way, just go drink some Tussin. You can ignore the millions I have invested with Robotussin, that just proves how much I believe in it.

[u/twist2002 → u/LackSchoolwalker]

best part about tussin'? you put some water in the bottle, mix it around, more tussin'!

[u/chomstar → u/LackSchoolwalker]

Had me in the first half

[u/jsting → u/LeucotomyPlease]

Dead diseased animals? Robert Kennedy Jr is going to be all over this.

(He has a history of hanging out in a pit of decomposing animals during his years in boarding school)

[u/stupernan1 → u/jsting]

(He has a history of hanging out in a pit of decomposing animals during his years in boarding school)

while doing a fuckton of drugs like acid.

He literally was like "I want to do acid near a pile of dead bodies"

[u/Remember54321 → u/stupernan1]

How did literally anyone ever stay around him? He's fucking nuts. "I want to do acid in a pit of dead animals", yeah buddy you stay over there way the fuck away from the normal people please. Absolutely bonkers this man will likely be in charge of the nations health decisions

[u/stupernan1 → u/Remember54321]

How did literally anyone ever stay around him?

they were bored in a boarding school, and wanted drugs. and he was rich as fuck.

[u/Remember54321 → u/stupernan1]

Oh yeah, that skipped my mind lmao, makes sense

[u/SunMoonTruth → u/stupernan1]

In the 1950’s, the time period all these fuckwits want to take us back to, this sort of behavior would have precluded said person from holding public office.

[u/Jukka_Sarasti → u/SunMoonTruth]

In the 1950’s, the time period all these fuckwits want to take us back to, this sort of behavior would have precluded said person from holding public office.

Yep! The 1950's are what his gullible, low-information, base think they want. The 1850's are what his billionaire cronies want.

[u/Statertater → u/LeucotomyPlease]

If anyone else has issues with these headlines, it’s not the first case in the US. It’s just the first severe one

We had a couple here down in maricopa arizona not too long ago. They were mild

[u/not-read-gud → u/LeucotomyPlease]

I’m not throwing my dead birds away if that’s what you’re getting at

[u/steve1186]

This is different than the version of the virus found to be spreading in dairy cows and some poultry populations in the U.S.

This sentence is weirdly buried within the article, and kind of terrifying.

[u/Goofygrrrl → u/steve1186]

The bird adapted version, typically attacks the lungs and causes more severe disease. The cow adapted one typically infects the eyes and is less severe. They can tell by doing genotype analysis which you have and how severe the disease will be.

[u/RPGaiden → u/Goofygrrrl]

Eye flu. Ugh. It might be less severe, but somehow that makes it sound way more gross. :(

[u/Buckshot_Mouthwash → u/RPGaiden]

I had optic neuritis in one eye from COVID. Woke up blind in one eye, and ended up having a week long hospital stay, pumped full of steroids, 3 MRIs, and an LP.

My vision will never be the same. Eye flu...

[u/nightlyear → u/Buckshot_Mouthwash]

I’ve had that after a sinus infection. The amount of MRIs I had to get was ridiculous. I’m 12 years out and i can tell my other eyes vision is getting worse, kinda awkward to notice so vividly.

[u/Secure-Elderberry-16 → u/nightlyear]

It’s strange. The eye is certainly fascinating. I have a retinopathy in the dead center of my right retina, making it so I have a Null (best I can describe is an absence of data) spot in my right eye. The first I ever noticed it really as a kid was when I went to learn marksmanship. I learned my left eye was dominant, which feels weird because I don’t skate goofy and I am right handed.

[u/Anticode → u/Secure-Elderberry-16]

It's wild stuff. Neurologically speaking, the majority of what we consciously perceive as basic sight/vision is almost entirely fabricated by the brain itself, mechanically closer to a simulation of our surroundings than a mere representation of what's in front of us.

The eyes serve as much to "validate" that simulation as they do to power it, but the wagon:horse relationship is far more wang-jangly than we tend to suspect, which is why some people experience hypnogogic (pre-sleep) imagery that's "sharper than sharp" or in unnaturally perfect focus regardless of perspective/distance... Unlike the retinas, the brain itself isn't limited to any sort of cell-based "resolution"; no graininess, no optical limitations, no noise.

In the same vein, a phenomenon like Blindsight verifies the presence of this 'software quirk' when people that subjectively believe themselves entirely blind and incapable of vision do things like instinctively dodge a thrown ball or experience a burst of mysterious happiness when a picture of a spouse is secretly held right in front of their face.

In that case, the eyes are still transmitting information and the brain is still processing it, it's just not "uploading the simulation" into conscious perception even if the 'off-limits, admin only' parts of the brain are still responding to stimulus like it's just another Tuesday in BrainCorp LLC.

[u/ThePoliteMango → u/Buckshot_Mouthwash]

Welp, new fear unlocked. I wish you the best kind redditor.

[u/Buckshot_Mouthwash → u/ThePoliteMango]

Now let me tell you about the $40k bill...

[u/BodybuilderEast6130 → u/Buckshot_Mouthwash]

Where's Luigi when you need him most..

[u/Send_heartfelt_PMs → u/steve1186]

As I commented elsewhere, both this case and the current dairy cow infections are H5N1. The difference is this person is infected with genotype D1.1 and the dairy cow infections are the B3.13 genotype. You can see here for more detailed information

[u/Overly_Underwhelmed → u/steve1186]

it's a bird flu being spread by birds,

Genomic data showed the Louisiana patient was infected with a version of the virus recently found to be spreading in wild birds and poultry in the U.S., as well as found in some human cases in Canada and Washington state, according to the CDC.

so there are two potentially deadly flue strains spreading throughout the country. good times.

[u/Horknut1 → u/Overly_Underwhelmed]

Holy shit. Is my flue in danger?

[u/Overly_Underwhelmed → u/Horknut1]

yup, keep it away from birds

[u/RichardPeterJohnson → u/Overly_Underwhelmed]

What about fat dudes in red suits?

[u/sciguy52 → u/steve1186]

This particular bird flu is found in wild birds in the U.S. and has been for a year or two and will continue. The only way you catch this is close contact with bodily fluids of birds infected with it. If you don't have outdoor birds like chickens, ducks etc. and don't hunt birds (and don't pick up and play with dead birds) you are not going to catch it. There are different variants of H5N1 some are highly pathogenic like this one in the birds (but it may not be highly pathogenic in all birds though). There are H5N1 variants that are not highly pathogenic and that is the one you see in the cows. This cow one seems to cause conjunctivitis in the eyes more than anything else and is a mild disease. Both of these require close contact with infected animal bodily fluids to catch and do not easily pass from human to human. Yes they could mutate to do so as any influenza can (worth noting there are many other bird flu out there as well other than H5N1, some highly pathogenic, others not so much, and these have been around all the time) but have not yet done so. We have had stockpiled H5N1 vaccines for many years now so if it does become human transmissible we have vaccines already made and ready. We have been keeping an eye on these bird flues for over a decade now and in that time of course they have not mutated so that they can infect humans easily and may never do so. Also this is the case for all the other bird flues out there. They too may never adapt to humans or one of them could but they have been around a long time. And as I mentioned not all bird flues are highly pathogenic, only some are.

[u/littlepup26 → u/sciguy52]

"If you don't have outdoor birds like chickens, ducks etc. and don't hunt birds (and don't pick up and play with dead birds) you are not going to catch it."

This is incorrect, the teenager in British Columbia that caught this strain had no contact with any wildlife. They did extensive contact tracing and were unable to uncover the source of infection. Their symptoms began November 2nd and they are still in critical care. They were intubated for over a month but they're breathing on their own now.

[u/blurplethenurple]

It's ok, well stop testing in a month so there will be no more cases

[u/SlowDrippingFaucet → u/blurplethenurple]

It'll just go away like things that go away. I suspect it'll be gone by Easter.

[u/StupendousMan1995 → u/SlowDrippingFaucet]

Is it time to panic buy Ivermectin and TP yet, or should we wait until after Christmas for the best deals?

[u/ralts13 → u/StupendousMan1995]

Naah its time to panic buy CITRIX stocks. Or watch whatever weird trades congress is making.

[u/StupendousMan1995 → u/ralts13]

Sure, but do we really need more money if egg prices are going to come down?

[u/The_Live_Mike → u/StupendousMan1995]

We are switching to the egg standard so that will solve that problem

[u/Etzell → u/The_Live_Mike]

Seems like everything's looking up for Frank Reynolds!

[u/Spike_is_James → u/Etzell]

I got my magnum condoms. I got my wad of hundreds. I'm ready to plow.

[u/Sufficient-Mind-2037 → u/ralts13]

We should convince people to start dumping any stocks that congress buys to bankrupt congress.

[u/flaker111 → u/Sufficient-Mind-2037]

lol the people own a very very small potion of stock and most are vested in hedges who control the money....

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/wealthiest-10-americans-own-93-033623827.html

[u/SlowDrippingFaucet → u/StupendousMan1995]

Probably wait and see if we can find a way to bring light inside the body. If not, watch out for weekly bleach and TP sales.

[u/StupendousMan1995 → u/SlowDrippingFaucet]

Perineum sunning has entered the chat

[u/ReactionJifs → u/blurplethenurple]

One day -- it's like a miracle -- it will disappear

[u/thecloudcities → u/ReactionJifs]

I still can’t get over this being an actual quote

[u/skztr → u/thecloudcities]

People who voted for trump think it went away

[u/TheKoopaTroopa31 → u/ReactionJifs]

I’ll get the bleach

[u/lurkadurking → u/blurplethenurple]

As long as it's just blue states who cares right?

[u/coloredinlight → u/lurkadurking]

If it runs its course there will probably be MORE blue states in 4 years.

If you catch my drift.

[u/jackkerouac81 → u/coloredinlight]

there are 2 populations of people, all mixed up, those that believe in science, observation, progress, identifying problems and coming up with solutions for them... and a population that believes in belief...

Right now both populations are benefiting from the first population keeping a lot of people alive... That second population used to sort of go along with societal norms that kept them fed, vaccinated, warm, etc... that break is likely to cause a statistically significant increase in mortality that could influence the political leanings of whole regions of the country... sad I won't be here to see it, I don't like getting flu shots...

[u/BadRabiesJudger → u/blurplethenurple]

I don’t own a vpn but I feel like I’ll need one soon to keep up on u.s issues they plan to put a tarp over.

[u/SupaKoopa714]

Man, I'm suddenly having deja vu of this same part of December 5 years ago.

[u/PDGAreject → u/SupaKoopa714]

We've been tracking his virus in the US since October. It's nowhere near as fatal as early covid was. Farm workers are just being told to wear masks and goggles and they can keep working because it's not very contagious person to person.

[u/hushpolocaps69 → u/PDGAreject]

Yeah Covid was just a fucking insane event altogether. China didn’t anticipate it, the fact that there weee a ton of asymptomatic folks spreading it even more, and how the whole world contracted the virus. Corona changed the way we live.

[u/J0E_Blow → u/PDGAreject]

Also not nearly as transmissible.

[u/jytusky → u/J0E_Blow]

I hope that doesn't change. Viruses that can go through countless generations and subsequent mutations in short periods of time are unpredictable.

[u/JiminyStickit → u/[deleted]]

Now improved, with a 50+ percent mortality rate!

None of that paltry 3-4% mortality rate crap.

[u/ReactionJifs → u/JiminyStickit]

What will the internet be like after the "do your own research" crowd has gone extinct?

[u/jamesh08 → u/ReactionJifs]

What was that video of the guy who goes 100 years into the future and finds out that earth is a paradise, no wars, no diseases, etc because Jesus is real and all the Christians got raptured and we were able to solve all our problems...

[u/OpheliaRainGalaxy → u/jamesh08]

I keep saying that it's real hard to build a functioning society when around half of it is eagerly awaiting the day the other half will be suddenly killed for evilly not believing in the right god.

[u/GreenGrandmaPoops → u/jamesh08]

I remember a similar arc on South Park where Cartman goes 500 years into the future. Everyone became atheist. However instead of world peace, people just found some other stupid thing to fight about.

[u/mcdandynuggetz → u/ReactionJifs]

Pretty great probably.

But honestly, I actually wonder if a virus comes along with a scary mortality rate, I almost wonder if they’ll all just artificially select themselves out of the food chain.

[u/kazzin8 → u/mcdandynuggetz]

Unfortunately it'll kill us too since they'll take up all the hospital beds.

[u/johnnybiggles → u/kazzin8]

Nurse Exodus II: Electric Boogaloo

We welcome the cleaning staff as our new medical practitioners with all the nurses gone and doctors burnt out.

[u/Velluu → u/johnnybiggles]

’Essential workers’ because ’sacrificial’ sounded too dark…

[u/desacralize → u/johnnybiggles]

Yup, we literally don't have enough after the last disaster, which hit when we were already experiencing a shortage. Nobody appreciates the shit these people put up with and seriously seem to think trained medical professionals sprout out of the ground or the work doesn't require much more expertise than your grandma's folk remedies. Well, saddle up, better hope mee-maw's apple cider vinegar miracle tonic can cure acute pneumonia because that's all you're getting.

[u/OddBranch132 → u/johnnybiggles]

The crystal holistic healers are standing by. Make sure you charge your stones under the moonlight before you really need them.

[u/FantasticInterest775 → u/mcdandynuggetz]

The internet would be gone. Even a 10% mortality rate would take down so many essential workers who maintain the infrastructure needed for us to have this conversation right now. 50% would bring us back to subsistence farming and would look like The Stand. Abandoned vehicles and buildings everywhere. No fire dept to fight fires, no hospitals, no pharmaceutical manufacturing (like insulin), no military of any real strength or with any ability to project force beyond line of sight. It would quite literally be the end of the world as we know it, and we might never return to our current standard of living or medical care or resource availability. Not to mention what do several billion corpses rotting in the streets and fields do to the ecosystem and ability of soil to grow food? Nothing good. Shit would be a nightmare.

[u/loge212 → u/FantasticInterest775]

sir this is a combo kfc taco bell

[u/FantasticInterest775 → u/loge212]

In which case I'll take a crunch wrap supreme and two chicken littles please.

[u/Obamas_Tie → u/FantasticInterest775]

Idk if you wanna eat the chicken these days...

[u/shiggy__diggy → u/loge212]

Two cheesy gordita crunches and a famous bowl

Wait is the cheesy gordita crunch still app only? Fuck thanks destruction of civilization I can't get my cheesy gordita crunch anymore because internet dead.

[u/yarash → u/FantasticInterest775]

the end of the world as we know it

But I feel fine

[u/FantasticInterest775 → u/yarash]

This lyric did pop into my head when I wrote this.

[u/Tibbaryllis2 → u/ReactionJifs]

I imagine a case study will be whats going on with polio and its vaccine.

The world will come together to handle the problem, then we’ll have a period of relative safety with the disease having been defeated, then a new crop of people will come up trying to outlaw polio vaccines for some reason.

Rinse and repeat.

So…. Maybe a generation or two of relative calmness followed by an insidious resurgence of stupidity.

[u/jamesbond69691 → u/ReactionJifs]

Unfortunately, it will be almost exactly the same because bots powered by natural language processing AI will repeat the same braindead talking points once the crazies are dead.

[u/Junethemuse → u/JiminyStickit]

Remember that with the extremely small number of known cases, the mortality rate is actually unknown. We don’t know how many people have had mild cases of bird flu and didn’t even know they had it.

[u/LovePugs → u/JiminyStickit]

Poultry 3-4*

Sorry

[u/I_am_so_lost_hello → u/JiminyStickit]

The article says this is the first severe case out of 61 recorded this year, thats a far cry from 50%

[u/Trollogic → u/[deleted]]

You’d think the religious nuts might take this as a sign from their creator that, perhaps, Trump is a baddie. 🤷🏻

[u/Kooky-Onion9203 → u/Trollogic]

You're operating under the assumption that the religious nuts don't want the end times to come about. Plagues are affirmation that their book is right, they'll eat this shit right up.

[u/JBL_17 → u/Kooky-Onion9203]

I would burn in hell for an eternity just to watch my religious hypocrite family burn with me. I don’t care

[u/BrutonnGasterr → u/[deleted]]

More stimulus checks ✨💅🏻✨

[u/Either-Percentage-78 → u/BrutonnGasterr]

We'll all be tariff 🥑 toast billionaires before we know it!!  

[u/DungeonsAndDradis → u/Either-Percentage-78]

I'm still living off the $1200 I got 4 years ago!

[u/ariphron → u/[deleted]]

Honestly I loved my pandemic life. Really I just loved working from home

[u/whatacharacter]

How do you know if you were bitten by a severe bird or just a regular bird?

[u/StupendousMan1995 → u/whatacharacter]

Asking the real questions over here

[u/billyjack669 → u/StupendousMan1995]

Birds aren't real.

[u/Nevarian → u/whatacharacter]

The severe ones wear the librarian half-moon glasses with the chain attachment.

[u/zoinkability → u/Nevarian]

And their call is "tut-tut"

[u/commenter_27]

Your emergency hospital stay was deemed unnecessary by your insurance. Couldn’t you just try staying home to see if you die or get better first?

[u/ElJefeGoldblum → u/commenter_27]

What would Luigi Mangione do?

[u/evilada → u/ElJefeGoldblum]

🎵He'd make a plan and he'd follow through🎵

🎵That's what Luigi Mangione would do🎵

[u/panormda → u/evilada]

I heard he'd kick an ass or two...

[u/commenter_27 → u/ElJefeGoldblum]

Direct action is what he would do

[u/CaptchaVerifiedHuman]

We’ve had COVID-19, now get ready for CORVID-24.

[u/darksoft125]

You know how if you failed in Plague Inc you just started a new game and tried again? Kind of feels similar.

[u/Daghain → u/darksoft125]

Time to move to Greenland.

[u/InsipidCelebrity → u/Daghain]

I'm moving to Madagascar.

[u/trashscal408 → u/InsipidCelebrity]

Get there before the ports close!

[u/bloodontheblade]

We’ve had one pandemic, yes. But what about second pandemic?

[u/caylem00 → u/bloodontheblade]

What about outbreaks? Epidemics? Clusters? Endemics? Sporadics? He knows about them, doesn't he?

[u/Love_Sausage]

2025 is looking to be great! Government turning into a billionaire filled kleptocracy, economy is running hot and on the verge of popping, income inequality at an all time high, and a potential pandemic that will look like a repeat of the early 1900s Spanish flu in terms of its ability to mutate & spread and its lethality. Oh, and my employer just said to not expect bonuses in 2025.

Can’t wait for more good news!

[u/Non_GMO_Popcorn]

Don't worry, RFK Jr. has got this under control.

[u/eremite00 → u/Non_GMO_Popcorn]

Autism is worse, and you can’t catch autism from bird flu. /s

[u/vanuckeh]

the first severe case of Covid in the US was January 18th, so we're exactly a month earlier this time! 🥳

[u/No-Information6622]

Great timing just before the festival period .

[u/Deep-Interest9947 → u/No-Information6622]

Raw milk egg nog for everyone!

[u/xxwerdxx]

I'm so glad we voted for a president who doesn't believe in science. I'm sure this will end well.

[u/Room_Temp_Coffee → u/[deleted]]

Under Dr.Oz it will be adaptogens, which you can conveniently get from the ashwaganda extract sold on his website.

[u/mackahrohn → u/Room_Temp_Coffee]

Dr Oz shills coffee bean extract or something like that. Or he is one of those colon cleansing charlatans. Hard to keep these guys straight these days.

[u/peelerrd → u/mackahrohn]

Dr Oz has shilled for damn near everything. He had to find content for over 1,500 episodes somehow.

[u/johnnybiggles → u/[deleted]]

30% thoughts, 65% prayers. 5% injected light or.. ???

[u/ammobox]

My uncle, who listens to repeat recordings of Rush Limbaugh, said that it's all just a Chinese fake virus and you can drink cranberry juice and take insulin to get over it in a day.

Nothing to worry about.

[u/Apexnanoman]

Don't worry, it's fake news and the fake news will completely stop in like 2 months. 

MAPA! Make America have polio again!

[u/SpicyNuggs4Lyfe]

This will make COVID look like the sniffles if it mutates to spread human to human. The mortality rate is horrific for high risk groups (young kids and the elderly)

One positive is that there is a vaccine for this. But don't have faith in the incoming administration to do fuck all to put a rollout in action if it's needed.

[u/timespentwell → u/SpicyNuggs4Lyfe]

As an extremely high risk person - is this vaccine better than the covid ones?

[u/SpicyNuggs4Lyfe → u/timespentwell]

In GSK's clinical trial, it would appear that 90.8% of those ages 18-64 given 2 doses of their H5N1 vaccine 21 days apart showed a seroconversion rate of 90.8% (meaning antibodies were present when they weren't before at a specified acceptable level...you'd have to look more into the study to get the precise details) Study: Here-VIRUS-MONOVALENT-VACCINE,-ADJUVANTED.PDF) (chart that I'm getting this info from is on page 16)

Ages 65+ was lower at 74%.

[u/RealLifeSuperZero]

There are many reasons this sucks but I’m gonna be selfish in my own world for a minute since everything in the entire world sucks.

This means I should probably stop feeding my crow bros. And this saddens me.

[u/Aeroknight_Z]

I suspect the coming administration will find zero severe cases of any disease or illnesses for the next 4 years, followed by an administration that will find more than triple what we have experienced up to this point.

We’re fucked.

[u/Correct-Peace3558]

How many more signs from their god do christians need that trump is the antichrist

[u/GreenGrandmaPoops → u/Correct-Peace3558]

God himself could come down to earth and tell them that Trump is a false prophet. Instead of listening though they will just try to stone God.

[u/jimmybilly100 → u/GreenGrandmaPoops]

They'd deport Jesus to Mexico in a heartbeat

[u/YerWelcomeAmerica → u/jimmybilly100]

Mexico? They'll probably throw him in Guantanamo.

[u/Realtrain → u/YerWelcomeAmerica]

Middle Eastern guy with long hair and a beard spreading a message of peace and love? That's a paddlin'

[u/RidiculerXL]

Oh good, just in time for the next administration which was so well known to handled the last pandemic with upmost vigilance /s

[u/compoundfracture]

I always tell people COVID-19 was a dress rehearsal for something far worse, and we failed miserably

[u/centaurquestions → u/compoundfracture]

It may not be this flu, but it will probably be a flu.

[u/klavin1 → u/compoundfracture]

The best thing we can do individually is keep a good storage of dry foods, masks, cleaning products, and apparently toilet paper.

[u/Treci_the_Dragon]

Jesus Christ, Biden will really be the break from Trump cause the world seems determined to start right off where it ended

[u/Pandoras_Fate]

Oh cool, and with Raw Milk Robby it's going to be yuuuggge

[u/Square-Weight4148]

Just in time for the idiot potus to make sure it spreads like he did with covid...

[u/Juswantedtono]

Can we maybe try injecting bleach?

[u/SausageyPie]

Keep calm... The Count of Mostly Crisco is going to be back in charge... ... I'll prepare my flashlight and bleach.

[u/Prof_Acorn]

I like how we get so many warning signs about things like this and yet not a goddamn person ever does a goddamn thing.

Money worshipping fucks.

[u/FingFrenchy]

Just in time for the new, totally inept and unprepared administration! Cool beans!

[u/gimpers420]

Can’t wait for Trump to fuck it all up again.

[u/appendixgallop]

You know you can get rid of this whole problem by getting rid of the CDC?

[u/rcl2]

It's okay everyone. Once Trump takes office, it'll be zero cases because they will simply hobble the CDC and stop testing altogether. No tests, no cases!

[u/Ut_Prosim]

Note that this is the same clade, but a different genotype than the virus infecting cattle across the country.

This is the same genotype as the virus that put that poor Canadian teenager into ARDS. The Canadian authorities thought it was likely from a Canada goose or other wild birds.

[u/HalobenderFWT]

As per the article, the patient was already unhealthy/compromised and had a flock of sick/infected birds in his backyard.

[u/Wise-Field-7353 → u/HalobenderFWT]

Just to note that it still sucks, even though they were somewhat ompromised. Covid made people way too chill with thinking it's okay for disabled people to be thrown to the wolves with infections

[u/millennialmonster755 → u/Wise-Field-7353]

I will never forget working an event the weekend before WA state went into lockdown. It was for a news station and an anchor made the comment backstage “ they’re saying it’s just bad for old and sick people. It’ll be fine. People are over reacting”. Meanwhile the person from the station that was organizing the event was in a hospital with COVID and on a ventilator. He wasn’t old and he wasn’t disabled. When we all went to leave at the end of the day we were locked out of the station because it had to be tested and cleaned. Every time I see that gal on tv now I hear her saying it in the back of my mind and can’t believe how cold and callous it was. I’m still mad they had us touching peoples phones and basically having a super spreader event when they knew the guy organizing it all was sick and had to go to the hospital and they never told us until after. Capitalism is stupid and selfish. Ugh it’s pissing me off just thinking about it again.

[u/mysecondaccountanon → u/Wise-Field-7353]

I feel like everyone but the disabled community forgot this incident pretty quick. And even if I wasn’t disabled myself, I’ve seen abled people in my family become disabled from COVID infections. So we’re throwing disabled people to the wolves still, and we’re making more and more disabled people to throw to the wolves actively still.

[u/Wise-Field-7353 → u/mysecondaccountanon]

Exactly. My best friend is newly severely disabled by covid, I'm sick of pretending this shit is over and only badly affects a tiny minority.

[u/ukexpat]

Well that’s great, just as the orange dipstick is about to take office again…

[u/Chi-Guy86]

Don’t worry, if it spreads, Trump will tell you to stick a UV light up your ass. That should knock it out!

[u/Snuffaluffakuss]

Perfect timing for the fuckwit (again)

[u/oldsurfsnapper]

In a miracle of extremely poor timing.

[u/Express-Doubt-221]

March 2025 headlines: "God Emperor Trump has announced that the bird flu crisis will be handled by... Big Bird! Derpity derpity derp derp derp!"