re: How concerned are you about bird flu?

The only concern I have is for actual birds. I haven't been providing much water in the birdbaths this year, mainly filling them only when it has been really hot and dry. I started that after I saw several dead birds with no obvious signs of death a few months back. Communal water that is non moving is a legit source of spread for wild birds.

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So Trump was behind that? I swear to god it’s insane how stupid we are as a society. The dumb shite people believe on this site is downright scary.

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Trump's first presidency was riddled with terrible advice given to him and corrupt individuals taking advantage of his ignorance. NOBODY knew what was going on at that time, what was real and what wasn't. Podcast and independent journalism, just like today, were the only beacons of truth and knowledge and now that the dust has settled we can all see (I hope all, maybe there are still plenty of moronic sheep amongst us) that Covid was a manipulation game.

Applying that to bird flu, if mainstream media begins to cover it obsessively and is obviously fear-mongering like they do with everything, then you will know that this is absolutely nothing to be worried about.

Zero concern. Never had a flu shot, never had the flu.

Meh, I think a Bird Flu would be just like Covid or even less.

I think we'll see future pandemics that makes everyone sick, but I doubt we ever see a virus kill people on the scale of the 1918 Spanish Flu again.

The 1918 Spanish Flu killed 50 million worldwide. Majority of deaths resulted from secondary bacterial infections rather than the influenza virus itself. This was due to lack of antibiotics, limited medical knowledge, and poor conditions from WW1. We don't have these same problems anymore.

The current Bird Flu is so "deadly" to the few that catch it because it affects the gastrointestinal system....thus why it doesn't spread easily. Typically, viruses that kill too much and aren't upper respiratory don't spread far. Human to Human pandemics require droplets/aerosols from our mouth/nose. Right now the people that catch Bird Flu have been in contact with animal feces.

It will have to completely change and turn into an upper respiratory virus that spreads easily and is less deadly to become a pandemic. At that point, it will be so mutated it won't even be the same virus anymore...and will most likely be more similar to your average flu strain.

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About as concerned as I am contracting monkeypox. 0%

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This is a real potential threat IMO.

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Again?

Shame we don't have someone like a Obama in the White House because "we can't have bad press" and it just went away like a fart in the wind. Weird how that works sometimes.

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I'm not planning on fricking a bird, so, not worried at all.