• QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz
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    6 months ago

    Anti-science has gained too much traction in recent years, I doubt USA will survive if H5N1 starts spreading from human to human.

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      6 months ago

      Covid has a mortality rate of about 3% while H5N1 has a mortality rate of about 56%.
      If it starts spreading from person to person and it has an r value similar to Covid, we’re fucked.

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        6 months ago

        Probably not. If a virus is too deadly, it kills its hosts before it can spread. That’s why SARS didn’t turn into a pandemic.

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        6 months ago

        Covid has a mortality rate of about 3%

        hah great, makes the 1 in 50k risk of a certain vaccine’s side effects even more ridiculous to think about

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      6 months ago

      At this point, if they’re asking for the scientifically specified strain of virus to be served to them, I’m not sure it sounds like “anti science” , more like “braggadocious risk taking”

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    6 months ago

    Let me guess. These are the same people who refuse vaccines with miniscule mortality rates, but are demanding milk infected with a virus that has more than a 50% mortality rate in humans? 🤔

    Also, how is intentional getting infected to aquire immunity better than doing nothing at all? I mean, just don’t worry about it. If you get infected then you’re either dead or immune, and if you don’t get infected you didn’t need that immunity anyway. Plus, you’ve saved money by not buying your weirdo raw cow juice.

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      6 months ago

      These people show up on my Facebook, they just want the opposite of what the government says no matter what, often they imagine the government saying something just so they can do the opposite.

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    6 months ago

    UC Davis researcher Michael Payne told the LA Times. “Deliberately trying to infect yourself with a known pathogen flies in the face of all medical knowledge and common sense.”

    I, too, remember when this was more of a bug and not necessarily a feature.

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    6 months ago

    Wow. Terminally stupid. All while you can get immunity from pasteurized milk, just without the risk.

    Can those people be put under observation for “suicide risk”, please?

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            6 months ago

            It was actually the 3rd plague if you count the black death as the first, Spanish flu as the second and covid as the 3rd

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              6 months ago

              Technically of course The Black Death was not a pandemic, it was an epidemic. It’s just people didn’t really move around very much so they didn’t notice.

              It kept returning to Europe multiple times because the focal point of the disease would move somewhere else for a bit and then come back.

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    6 months ago

    Okay, you can’t just put the word enthusiast after things.

    What the hell is a raw milk enthusiast!!!

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    6 months ago

    So they take up precious hospital resources when their enthusiasm gets the terribly sick.

    Great.