• Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.works
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    10 days ago

    Not to destroy any scraps of warm fuzzies you may have left, you’re right to worry. It’s foolish so many are ignoring how big of a threat this really is.

    In October a review was published in JAMA showing that bird flu can be asymptomatic and that these cases are likely confirmation human to human transmission has already occurred (the asymptomatic individuals came in direct contact with a symptomatic person infected by an animal).

    Rick Bright, (who was fired for going against Trump on COVID during his first administration) wrote a commentary about it https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2840687

    When you hear dumbasses like Dr. Oz apparently downplaying the importance of getting the flu vaccine, it’s hard to believe their response to another pandemic (when they have even more power and fewer safety nets) will be anything but a disaster.

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      When you hear dumbasses like Dr. Oz apparently downplaying the importance of getting the flu vaccine, it’s hard to believe their response to another pandemic (when they have even more power and fewer safety nets) will be anything but a disaster.

      We don’t even have to guess. We saw how Taco and his most ardent supporters treated science.

      I think we know exactly how terrible they’d be about another pandemic, since he’s even less restrained than he was before. There won’t be a Fauci around this time…