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So, when this finally jumps species, will we continue the tradition of naming a virus after its origin?
MAGA Influenza or maybe the Florida Flu?
That's enough alliteration for today
Texas Moo Flu
Nah, we'll do like we did with the Spanish flu where we put our heads in the sand about a new flu strain from a farm in Kansas and name it after the first place to publicly acknowledge it exists.
I just bought 10 80-packs of toilet paper. $426.50. I should be fine now.
See you on ebay in 6 months
You can't wipe your ass with jealousy and spite.
Don't tempt me with a good time
He said spite, not spit
I got a shattaf (handheld bidet sprayer) at the start of the last pandemic. It’s incredible. It’s easy to install for a renter, and is so much cleaner than tp. Only downside is it’s cold water unless you run a second line from your sink’s hot water line.
I always wanted to try one of those things, but I don't want to install one. I also want one with a remote control that has a range of at least 7 yards.
It’s super easy to install.
Close the water feed valve, flush the toilet, disconnect the feed line from the tank, connect the Y adapter valve to the tank, reconnect the feed line, open the water valve.
It took me ~15 minutes to install and had a towel’s worth of clean water spillage to clean up.
“American” contrariness, scientificametican? Really? You sure you can’t narrow it down more than everyone who’s an American?
Not even a little bit?
Well, then fuck you. Because we both know exactly who you’re talking about.
Yeah, Americans. As much as i disagree with Republicans on things, they're still Americans.
Our educational system, our economic and our social systems have failed them and led them to unscientific contrary positions.
We need to find ways to bridge that gap and stop things like this without it being a political issue.
We need to find ways to bridge that gap and stop things like this without it being a political issue.
When the problem is political in nature I really don't see how it'd be beneficial to pretend like it's not
If people understood germ theory, it wouldn't be an issue. Instead, we spend a lot of time in high school biology on hydras, for example. Hydras are cool, reproduction by budding is weird, but maybe that time would have been better spent on some history of plagues and their impact on society?
With better education half our population would not be so easily manipulated into bad choices.
Instead, we spend a lot of time in high school biology on hydras ... maybe that time would have been better spent on some history of plagues
I think there's a different class that might be better suited to discussing past plagues lol
On a serious note, I get what you mean. I think classes need to be more integrated on their lessons, so like the science class is discussing the mechanics of how diseases reproduce at the same time history class is covering past epidemics, while the social studies class covers how systemic injustice worsened epidemics for the poor and minorities.
Well, I don't know. Finland has – or rather had until very recently, thanks to conservatives doing what they always do – one of the best education systems in the world and our conservatives were just about as easily manipulated into idiotic shit during COVID.
I think the reality of the matter is that a huge chunk of the population is simply too stupid to be able to function in a modern, complex society and no amount of education can fix them.
Perhaps we all need more classes on media, propaganda and civics?
Regardless, my point is this: the more we try to us/them our problems, the shittier our problems get.
the more we try to us/them our problems, the shittier our problems get.
I agree to a point, but we also have to recognize that with eg. COVID and now H5Nx preparedness, the conservative mindset is a huge issue and purely driven by politics that they themselves purposefully try to polarize, by eg. outright lying about the effects of vaccines or even whether the disease was a real one or just some sort of communist plot to sap and impurify their precious bodily fluids.
I'm not sure how something like this can be solved, when there's a huge segment of the population who not only doesn't believe in basic science but sees attempts at teaching it as attacks against their "values" and will sometimes react with literal violence
The best part about the bird flu in humans is that it is not airborne. And human to human transmission is, at the moment, a rare occurrence. So only the people who refuse to take precautions should be impacted.
Joke's on them, I never stopped being a paranoid shut-in from the last pandemic.
You waited for the pandemic? Either way, welcome to this way of life.
Can we please put some kindergarten nannies in charge of that nation…?
I've seen some freaking health professionals go full anti-mask and anti-vax. Like one of my friends is an RN and she went full Facebook Karen.
You can't fix stupid.
Yeah covid revealed there are a LOT of registered nurses i do not want involved in my health care.
Like, a lot
I've seen the same here in Finland too. What is it with nurses going off the reich wing anti-vax / anti-mask deep end?
I don't think you understand just how stupid my fellow country members are. We literally say "hey to prevent getting yourself and others sick, you should do these steps" making it a suggestion of reasonable things.
the response "my freedoms are being trampled". I fucking wish they actually were.
republiQans. We’re talking about republiQans.
(Okay, fine and also some nazis, Qultists, some facebook boomers, a fair few Libertarians, and some woowoo newager people.)
But, look, just say republiQans and have done with it. “Americans” is more than too general, it’s an absolute cop-out.
“Contrariness”?
Just call it mulish obstinacy to be kind, willful stupidity to be real.
You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons.
“It not that people are stupid or ignorant or that they don’t know what the science is,” he said. “They’re motivated to reject it on the basis of partisanship, their political ideology, their religion, their cultural values.”
I wonder why he doesn’t figure “The government has provided misinformation recently on health topics” into his list of reasons people don’t trust government health information.
I'm pretty sure rejecting facts based on partisanship, political ideology, religion, of cultural values can easily qualify you for being stupid.
On the other hand, the us has done idiotic things to tarnish it's reputation in the past.
They should have their fucking farms shut down until they comply with the FDA. Telling them they can't investigate on their farms then you lose all farm subsidies.
this wouldn’t be an issue if we simply stopped exploiting animals
The problem is that we exploit the land animals are on. People build suburbs in areas where these diseases are endemic. E.g., they clear cut a forest near caves and build a massive suburb, and people move in for the cheap housing. The bats that lived in the forests and caves are pushed to the eves of houses. Ebola virus is naturally endemic in those bats, and when a bat shits, it lands on a picnic table. Some mom sets up a picnic on the table and brushes off what she thought was a stick before serving sandwiches and touching her itchy face.
She handles wet grapes that are for the entire fourth grade class picnic, and everyone ingests them. The next day, multiple children get sick, but one family flew to Yellowstone that evening, and another flew to Japan for spring break, spreading the disease internationally before humans are even aware such a disease has even started.
Three weeks later, the health authorities see a mysterious disease in local hospitals, but have no tests for it, and the local health authority doesn't issue a shutdown notice for schools because it's become politicicized and they will lose their job if they make a bad call. A few people dying will get them a repremand at most. That's how pandemics start.
On the bright side we will never see a republican president ever again
and many don’t trust government.
For good reason. Really hard to trust politicians when they're all bought out by corporations (especially Pharma and health insurance) and billionaires.
Governments and pharmas don't intentionally create new diseases to make money.