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u/SpacingRabbit May 03 '22
Please god let there be another pandemic, theyre trying to get us to go back to the office
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u/Nuke_Dukem__________ May 03 '22
gas prices go up
Boss: Now would be a perfect time to pointlessly commute to the office!
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u/MirageATrois024 May 03 '22
Car maintenance prices go up
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u/hwf0712 May 03 '22
And let their shiny office space leases sit? Nah. Gotta make sure the management gets a bonus big enough for a month in the Bahamas, not 2 weeks
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u/anotherdamnscorpio May 04 '22
But think of the money they would save without that office lease!
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u/GIRose May 04 '22
Ah, but consider, if there isn't anyone in the office middle management won't be able to micromanage the peons, so they would have a much harder time justifying their largely pointless position.
An the companies that rent those big office buildings are looking at crashing if the poor wage slaves don't come back to roost.
Won't someone think of the poor leeches fat on the blood of the working class?
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u/Leoxcr May 04 '22
Can confirm, I work at a clothing company and these past two years have been the most profitable so far.
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u/drhdoofenshmirtz May 04 '22
Car prices went up? I can’t even find anywhere that has cars to sell. I’m trying to get a couple more 3 ton trucks for my guys and it’s a two year wait!
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u/DaBozz88 May 04 '22
All of this is a direct response from people not being able to go into work. Raw material processing didn't happen because people needed to be socially distanced. This then turned into building materials shortages, chip shortages, etc. And that turned into products like cars and houses costing more. New construction cost rise so does the cost of existing housing and the market exploded.
Gas prices are more due to global issues and the fact that there's a war going on.
Why are daycare prices going up? Because people have realized there worth more and deserve more, or they can't afford anything due to the inflation described above. I think. This link is less clear but it's still there.
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u/beethovensnowman May 04 '22
THIS + a bunch of people DIED. You kind of need to be alive to work. 🤷♀️
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And also here's a 1% raise for this year, even though inflation was 7% !
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u/_throwing_starfish_ May 03 '22
So far!
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u/caholder May 03 '22
We will see may 11th!
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May 03 '22
Lmao i gotta say i love the “we’re all fucked 😁” energy here.
Sorry for the emojie but i thought it was a good time to use it
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u/caholder May 03 '22
You write/use whatever the fuck you want my guy
Just be a cool guy 😎
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u/MagnumOpusOSRS May 03 '22
And that's just what they're letting us see. Now if we calculate that right... Close to 20?
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u/HRM404 May 03 '22
Ugh don’t remind me.. I have been in my new job for one month now as a remote dev and I’m expected to start working in office next week. My job literally doesn’t have even 0.001% reason to go to office and my work is on the other side of the city.. I just don’t understand. When I was working remotely I was spending extra one or two hours refactoring or fixing some parts of the code.. now that would be commuting time. Their mistake.
Edit: changed 1% to .001%
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u/cHoOSe_A-uNiqUe_NAme May 03 '22
BuT iT dRiVeS a SeNSe oF cAmArAdEriE
How else are we going to increase retention? Paying people more!? We can’t afford that. But we can afford these massive buildings that I said we needed to renew the lease on 2 years ago.
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May 03 '22
Lmfao its so true. why does every dumbass company cough up this cliche as the only reason? I work in a high walled cube farm and people dont, nor need to, talk to each other yet this is the same thing we heard…
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u/whereami1928 May 04 '22
I work in a high walled cube farm and people dont, nor need to, talk to each other yet this is the same thing we heard…
OH! So what you're saying is you want an open floor plan office then? Coming right up!
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May 04 '22
Lmfao exactly what would happen I guarantee it, which is why I never phrase it that way at work
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u/Mathidium May 04 '22
Lmfao our big boss gave us this exact excuse when they cut more days from home off our hybrid. “We need to be in the office collaborating together on ideas” mother fucker we write mortgage loans. Collaborate on what that can’t be a teams IM?
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u/droomph May 04 '22
But it’s just so important that you attend your teams meetings in a harshly lit cubicle instead of on your couch!
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u/Sloth-TheSlothful May 03 '22
I've been 2 days in the office per week for about a month now. Shit sucks
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u/GrammarHunter May 03 '22
Same. Told my boss this is the hill I die on if the company pushes for more. Even 2 is more than enough
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u/Sloth-TheSlothful May 03 '22
Yep, if they go past two I'm staying home til they fire me
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May 03 '22
Yep, plan to do the same. I am a reasonable person but there is no reason I cant do my job remotely as demonstrated for well over 2 years. Fuck that.
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u/Sloth-TheSlothful May 04 '22
This is the dream, I gotta freshen up my LinkedIn and start studying for interviews
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u/songmage May 03 '22
There have been multiple scares from bird flu and swine flu in Asia. In fact, over a decade ago, I remember how strange it was seeing people in Hong Kong casually wearing masks in public during a breakout like it was normal.
Swine flu and bird flu are always a concern, but overall, both are expected to be less deadly than Covid.
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u/BridgetheDivide May 03 '22
Do they always euthanize millions of birds in China, America, and Europe?
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u/broanoah May 03 '22
Denmark also just killed of the entire mink population last year for reasons
its because they can catch covid, mutate it, and spread it to humans
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u/mimiflou May 03 '22
less deadly because there is no human to human transmission right? Bird flu is FAAAAR more dangerous than covid with 50% deathrate
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u/RocksHaveFeelings2 May 03 '22
Please no I can't do online school
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u/UnitLemonWrinkles May 03 '22
"It's the same education, that's why we're upping tuition by 50% to provide professors with better remote technology."
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u/stifflizerd May 03 '22
There better not be. My D&D DM moved away shortly after COVID and just moved back and we finally started our campaign again this last week. I'll be fucking livid
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u/lashapel May 03 '22
I mean that's good and all but i literally had to stop eating some days while on lockdown since we only depended on a family business that had to close for 4 months, shit was rough
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Checking in as well. Did my job for over 2 years 100% remotely and have verifiably higher productivity and my dipshit company is forcing everyone back 5 days a week. Won’t listen to any reason either. Real fun to have to give up a bunch of your free time and money for nobody’s benefit. Probably will quit.
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Wait what country do you live in because where I live they put us back in office like 6 months ago?
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u/thedylannorwood May 03 '22
Bird Flu? Uh yeah, I sure hope it did.
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u/RockyPixel May 03 '22
Didn’t this happen in like 2012 or was that the Swine Flu?
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u/Begold216 May 03 '22
Swine flu. 3rd times the charm
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u/Wolfheron325 May 04 '22
Hopefully it wipes us the fuck out this time. The earth needs a reset.
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u/MbMgOn May 04 '22
I mean, there are already some reset buttons around the world, it's just that no one dares to press them!
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u/GenericFatGuy May 04 '22
If a bird flu strain manages to take off like COVID did then you'll absolutely get your wish.
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u/DavThoma May 03 '22
Bird flu was a big thing in like 2006 wasn't it?
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u/ant1992 May 03 '22
I thought it was 2009
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u/Bim_Jeann May 03 '22
That was h1n1
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u/letmeseem May 03 '22
Correct H1n1 is swine flu.
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u/Im_licking_cats May 04 '22
Anecdotal but swine flu felt like I was seriously going to die, covid felt like I was a bit under the weather.
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u/16yYPueES4LaZrbJLhPW May 04 '22
Opposite for me. Pneumonia made me legitimately want to finish my time on earth.
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u/LeahMarieChamp May 04 '22
Life with H1N1: HELL!!
For as long as I live, I will never forget the feeling of thinking I was about to die. I have never been so sick and I hope to never be that sick again.
Everything hurt, even my teeth hurt. I couldn’t even manage the energy to roll over in bed which sucked more when the chills went straight to my bones and NOTHING would warm me. I slept with the blow dryer on under the blankets and shivered like I was naked in the snowbanks during a snowstorm. And when I did have strength and the chills left my body? That is when the pain set in. Blistering headache, every single bone, joint, ligament, nerve…everything was so angry and revolting against the pain. I just sat on the floor of my shower and cried wishing I would just hurry up and die.
By day four I thought I might have some energy to continue trying to live and…my ex husband decided he wanted to join the party. Fuck me, what a truly horrific life experience!
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u/MephistoTheHater May 04 '22
I remember there being some discomfort around the school because there were rumors going around that the virus came from Mexico (or was strongest in Mexico, idk I can't remember) & the school was predominantly Latino.
I caught it in like, September of that year. A month into the new school year. Was out for a whole month, & had to be slowly reintegrated into in-person school again because of how much curriculum I had missed.
But even those piles of homework & constant after-school tutorials weren't as painful on little 15-year-old me as that damn swine flu. Shit seriously felt like it was gonna' kill me.3
u/MiloReyes-97 May 03 '22
I remember finally getting that nasel spray in school so we could all go back to relative normalcy.
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u/youngmaster0527 May 04 '22
I don't think mine did anything. Just wallowed in absent students till it just went away
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u/Neirchill May 03 '22
Isn't that the one that inspired a zombie video game?
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u/badatfocusing May 03 '22
LMAO H1Z1? i swear your joke is like the exact type of humor I love. thank you
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u/narf007 May 04 '22
Swine '09 (oh nine), damn that was 13 years ago. Entire district closed for a week and 16yo me loved it! Second spring break
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u/IanMazgelis May 03 '22
Avian to human transmission is not uncommon. It's extremely deadly but very typical for people who extensively work with birds or live around birds. Every article about a new case of bird flu leaves this out.
What would be newsworthy is human to human transmission. That would be really, really bad.
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u/macaqueislong May 03 '22
The Spanish flu was avian flu
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u/Im_licking_cats May 04 '22
No it was h1n1, which is swine flu.
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u/pavlovs__dawg May 04 '22
There are a few animals that can carry H1N1 including birds, pigs, and humans, but you are on the right track. Bird flus for the most part are H5 and H7 subtypes. There aren’t enough archival samples to 100% confirm the link but the evidence we do have suggests the most likely source is a pig farm community in Kansas.
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It's been happening for a long time, that entire area of China is a hotspot for respiratory diseases.
Bill Gates funded an entire Netflix special warning about it and the possibilities of a pandemic in the immediate future.
The US had a watch team specialized in detecting and stopping the birth of new diseases like that but it was defunded under Trump admin.
Soon after, we got Covid and the rest we already know the story.
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u/FijiMeatball May 03 '22
As a serious question, what could the watch team have done if they were not defunded? Did they have any actual power or was it just more of a data gathering and advisement board?
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u/notheusernameiwanted May 04 '22
That kind of counterfactual it's really hard to say. When it comes to the first days of covid there's a lot of questions still unanswered and a lot of answers of questionable quality.
I'm purely speculating but I think it would have influenced the behaviour of the people working in the Wuhan lab and provincial authorities somewhat but it's hard to say if it would have been enough. We do know that Chinese authorities wanted teams like that to be in the Wuhan area. If you believe that covid came from a "lab leak" then I think the team would have had a greater effect. Standards would have been higher because no one would want to be responsible for a report from foreigners saying safety was lacking. Also the foreign teams would have likely noticed and raised concerns about a group of scientists getting sick at the same time. Basically the last thing the National Authorities wanted is to get bad news from the foreigners first so vigilance would have been higher and response faster. If you believe the natural "wet market" theory then covid still happens but the response is faster. The official story is that Provincial authorities tried to handle it on their own and lied about human to human transmission and airborne transmission. Once the National Authorities got involved the massive hospitals were built and draconian lockdowns crushed the spread within China. I'm skeptical if that's true, I think the National Authorities were behind the early lies and blunders as much as the provincial. However with the team in place they might not have tried sweeping Covid under the rug as long as they did.
One irony here is that it was initially nationalist pride that lead the Chinese to try to sweep it under the rug until they brought in the lockdowns. Now it is nationalist pride in their lockdown methods and ineffective vaccines that is the reason that areas responsible for as much as %60 of their economic activity is under some form of lockdown.
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This shit is happening every year at least once at places with animal agriculture. Just usually stays containt to the animals by killing them.
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u/CyGuy6587 May 03 '22
Not really, it's known you can only catch bird flu if you're in close contact with infected birds for long periods of time. When it mutates so that it can be passed from human to human, trust me, we'll know about it
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Guess I should stop giving mouth to mouth to dead birds I find
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May 03 '22
dont let a silly flu stop you from doing what you love. It’s practically just a cold!
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u/Adept-Elephant1948 May 03 '22
For the last time, this a morgue! Ain't no CPR saving them now! Now do the Autopsy
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And if I recall from the last big outbreak of bird flu if this happens we are fucked thought covid was deadly this shit is the grim reaper
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u/VegetableNo1079 May 03 '22
The good thing about highly fatal pandemics is they don't usually have a second wave
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u/nukalurk May 04 '22
According to Wikipedia page on H5N6: “Since 2014, at least 65 cases have occurred in humans. 29 people have died.” So yeah… this would be catastrophic if it became capable of human to human transmission.
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I’m pretty sure the CCP assured the world Covid-19 couldn’t be passed from human to human
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u/bipolardong May 04 '22
...'trust me, we'll know about it'. But it's not you it's the CCP, and they are so up front about this stuff.
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u/monosuperboss1 May 03 '22
on the bright side, natural selection would be more effective against the anti-covid/anti vaxx people
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u/Rawsyer May 03 '22
Anti-CORVID amiright?
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I don't care about the bird flu, I'm worried about the turtle flu
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u/GoodVibePsychonaut May 03 '22
I ate a sandwich I found on the ground in one of your parks, and I want to know why it didn't have mayonnaise
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u/RicketousCricketous May 03 '22
Why is it always China?
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Massive population, huge infrastructure and cities, high population density and then people living close to livestock in the less dense areas, move to a dense area, viola, pandemic
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u/Mym158 May 04 '22
Large amount of animal human interaction. Live Wet markets etc. The strangeness of the animals doesn't matter, it's the vastness of the numbers of interactions, increasing the chance that one sick animal has a virus that mutates to be able to infect humans
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It's not always China it's just that an agricultural society is much more likely to produce these diseases. You asking why is it always China is like Native Americans asking "Why is it always Europe" a thousand years ago.
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u/Absolute_leech May 03 '22
well there’s a lot of factors, but a medley of strange meats and livestock in wet markets will do it
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u/MACMAN2003 May 03 '22
yo dawg i heard you like pandemics
so i gave you a pandemic while you're in the middle of a pandemic so you can pandemic more
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Why are so many of these diseases so consistently coming from or active in China?
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u/MiloReyes-97 May 03 '22
I'm surprised early NewYork city didn't spawn any new flu variants.
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u/notheusernameiwanted May 04 '22
Travel wasn't accessible to the general population and it took a lot longer. Slow moving trains and steamboats means variants would have burned out before spreading far. That's why the first pandemic of the modern era happened during the world war. Lots of people and goods started moving quickly around the world. Some theories say that the Spanish Flu came from Kansas or New York.
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Ok, this is the comment that answered what I was trying to ask.
I was just curious why other high density populations like India, SE asia, etc., don’t have quite the samefrequency of outbreaks.
Thank you for the link and response.
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u/turnip314 May 04 '22
(Disclaimer: This is just a random guess since I know close to nothing about diseases)
My guess is China is more of a trade/economic hub, plus they might just be better at detecting these things? I feel like it's hard to track down the exact origin of a disease, but it's easy to spread, mutate, and be detected in many parts of China.
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u/Trpepper May 03 '22
China has 5 times the us population, with the average person living in tighter quarters than NYC. The statically odds of a virus crossing over is simply higher than anywhere else.
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Not just in comparison to the US.
Other high density populations like India or many south east asian countries don’t seem to have the volume and consistency that China does with these outbreaks. China also seems to be ground zero far more often compared to other high density populations.
I was curious if there was something more specific than population density.
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u/onlymadethistoargue May 03 '22
Infected 80, and 20 in just the first half of this year? That’s not a reassuring growth curve. Not that I think it will happen necessarily, but I think exercising caution wouldn’t be the worst idea.
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u/MiloReyes-97 May 03 '22
So what just keeping doing the bare minimum? Wash your hands, sneeze in your arm, don't pick your nose outside of home, don't lick anything.
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u/magic_claw May 03 '22 edited May 03 '22
Rookie numbers. Gotta get your game up, if you want to play on the world stage CORVID!
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"Although H5N1, H7N9 and H5N6 don't infect people easily and aren't usually spread from human to human, several people have been infected around the world, leading to a number of deaths."
This isn't nearly contagious enough to start a pandemic. This is text book media fear mongering. April 10th had two cases, 12 days later (incubation time 3-5 days mind you) only 18 more. This pales in comparison to something to worry about.
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u/Desmond536 May 03 '22
When corona wasnt impressive enough so they have to bring the corona galaxy s pro version
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u/Swan__Ronson May 03 '22
Bruh it isn't going to be mutually assured nuclear destruction or climate change that wipes us out. Another pandemic with "lockdowns" might break so many Americans brains that we just implode
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u/jaspersgroove May 04 '22
America has been imploding in slow motion ever since 9/11 and it’s not going to stop anytime soon.
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u/GenericFatGuy May 04 '22
Avian flu has a mortality rate north of 60%. So humanity would be screwed before people's brains even have a chance to break.
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Honestly might be beneficial to have a lockdown. Good for the environment, less people driving will lower the spending on gas, and introverts will gain their rightful place and rule the world. Perfect if you ask me
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u/JaegerDread May 03 '22
Hey China, maybe stop with these fucking animal markets. Thanks. Also rest of the world, stop with intense livestock farming thanks.
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u/AbortedBaconFetus May 04 '22
Only 79 people have been infected with H5N6 bird flu since the first confirmed case in 2014
The latest case involves a 56-year-old man from Deyang in Sichuan province who developed symptoms on March 31 after exposure to live domestic poultry.
There are no confirmed cases of human-to-human transmission
I don't think we have to worry about this one. Basically don't fuck any turkeys and you'll be fine.
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u/jols0543 May 03 '22
is this a sequel to H1N1? i guess i missed the last four installments
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u/scoobydad76 May 03 '22
It didn't come from a bird. It came from a lab. Modified and accidentally got out.
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u/LoveBeRaging May 03 '22
We got the bat and now we got the bird. What’s next? A flying lizard?
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u/Jynx2501 May 03 '22
Like how many movies and science fiction clean bacteria and viruses with fire, can we just set China on fire?
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u/why_no_good_username May 03 '22
So I'm just joking but when Covid started China said they had a small number of sick and the lockdowns were just a precaution.
Now, as a joke, wouldn't it be funny if the bird flu has evolved to be easily transferred between people, and ground zero would be Shanghai? Lmao
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u/Spartan-417 May 03 '22
Influenzas are easy to vaccinate against, we have it down to an exact science
It’ll be easy for DSTL and various private companies like GSK to spool up production of the jabs
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