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Covid Safety Measures Could Return If a Bird Flu Pandemic Is Declared

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At least half the United States would rather die than wear a mask - so these safety measures simply are not happening here. There's no political will.

There's no political credibility. Don't mislead and scare people for their own good then blame them when they no longer listen to what you say.

Reminds me of the DARE program. Fill kids heads full of lies about how all drugs will ruin your life. Then they try pot and alcohol and realize your full of shit about those so you're probably lying about mdma, heroin and crack.

The case fatality rate for H5N1 in the past has been around 50%:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_mortality_from_H5N1

If half the country starts dying people will either wear a mask and take other precautions or they will indeed die. It has to mutate to start spreading from person to person though, so that might affect how lethal it is.

There's no political will to repeat the economic damage which anti-COVID measures inflicted either.

It’s going to be hard to persuade a lot of people to go back to COVID protocols with something like this. “Fool me once…”

It’s crazy that excess deaths show at least 1.2 million extra people dying in the US as a result of covid but still some people think it wasn’t real.

https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2024/new-analysis-revea...

> Nearly 1,170,000 people have died from COVID-19 in the United States according to official federal counts, but multiple excess mortality studies suggest that these totals are vastly undercounted.

> If the primary explanation for these deaths were healthcare interruptions and delays in care, the non-COVID excess deaths would likely occur after a peak in reported COVID-19 deaths and subsequent interruptions in care, says study lead author Eugenio Paglino, a PhD student studying demography and sociology at UPenn. “However, this pattern was not observed nationally or in any of the geographic subregions we assessed,” Paglino says.

>Though there’s no evidence a human has contracted bird flu from eating infected meat, the USDA urges people to eat meat prepared at safe temperatures. To be properly cooked, whole beef cuts must be cooked to an internal temperature of 145 degrees Fahrenheit, ground meat must be cooked to 160 degrees and poultry must be cooked to 165 degrees. Rare and medium rare steaks fall below this temperature.

I cannot wait for this to be a political point about the woke brigade taking away rare steak.

>Former CDC director Robert Redfield—who helped oversee the agency during the COVID-19 pandemic—told NewsNation earlier this month a bird flu pandemic is inevitable, so “it’s not a question of if, it’s a question of when.”

I remember bird flu being a worry for decades, has the concern of this grown significantly, or is this a bit of a baity article post covid?

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