• MrShankles@reddthat.com
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    1 day ago

    Didn’t 2020 pop off with one of the worst Australian bushfires still ongoing, and then one of the worst wildfires in California/Oregon began? And then, you know… that little pandemic thing? How’s the bird-flu thing been so far this year? Just wondering

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      22 hours ago

      I think with the “Sierra Leone declares emergency over mpox outbreak” headline from today, we might tip in to a new record breaking year wikiwiki !

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      Some guy in California fed raw bird flu milk to his cats and killed 2 blinded a third, iirc.

      So…on the way.

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        Some guy, you mean RFK Jr. probably. And soon mandatory lunch snack at the public tax voucher-funded Christian school your kids will attend (you won’t HAVE TO go, but the only other schools won’t bee subverted by the voucher… So, up to you bro…)

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          Currently cows are the main carrier of interest for one of the two strains of bird flu that are a concern in the US. The viral particles are being detected in their milk. Hence bird flu milk.

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              Because you can’t just use up the easy to remember names like that. We’ve had bird flu, SARS, MERS, swine flu, COVID… We might need cow flu to name a different coronavirus in a few years

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                If you stay about 20’ from a cow, the milker can’t shoot milk in your face. The physics behind it are pretty clear, yes cow flu milk is airborne but with a splash mask and 20’ distance, we’ll have it all under control.