• 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.

      • Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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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

        Same. I’ve been voting for “Giant Meteor” since 2016… It never wins though…

        Goddamn old people voting in primaries never gives Giant Meteor a chance!