• Vegoon@feddit.deOP
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      And unless everyone is willing to go 100% vegan tomorrow

      • we do it until we get a new pandemic
      • we wait until climate change, 3°C from food production, destroys enough crops that agriculture collapses
      • we eat more of it to die sooner so we don’t have to face the consequences of our actions.

      And no, I don’t belive 100% tommorow is the only way to avoid that, that was your wording. But it has to and will change.

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      And unless everyone is willing to go 100% vegan tomorrow, we need farmers

      Safe to say vegans also need farmers. We just don’t need animal agriculture.

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      Don’t mess with Texas. Don’t mess with anything Texas produces. Don’t mess with things that have messed with Texas. Avoid Texas at all costs.

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      Don’t mess with animals. This is not a Texas problem, outbreaks have been all over the world and the animal agriculture is the perfect breeding ground. The only question is where will it develop the human to human infection feature. When it happens you can only blame others if your state or country has no animal agriculture as it could happen anywhere.

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        I didn’t realise bird flu wasn’t transmitted between humans already tbh. I caught Swine flu (H1N1) from another human a decade or so ago.

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          It was already, but not from another mamal. Birds infecting individuals is not the problem, we kill a few millions (58 since 2022 in the states alone) birds to prevent the spread, a few hundred humans get sick, all is well. From mamal to another mamal is the problem, once it goes from human to human its over.

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      Good thing there’s nothing astronomical happening in Texas next week that only happens once every decade or so in the US, which people might flock to Texas to stand in crowds to see before dispersing back home across the Southern US. 😅

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          Right, but I think a lot of people in the Southwest are heading to Texas. Because driving another dozen hours makes a difference in the total trip time. I know I personally can’t afford the time from AZ to go further north.

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    It’s only got a 56% fatality rate, some of you will die but the economy must have it’s workers pronto. I expect the COVID playbook will be used again, tell you it’s droplets when it’s airborne, push the vaccine as the solution and shove you back to work.

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    Whaaat? A disease stemming from our exploitation of animals?? Surely that is something new and never heard of before!

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    “Let’s pack hundreds of animals together in a confined space, what’s the worst that could happen?”

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    It sounds like they only have eye redness, for now. How long can we expect the transformation to take?

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    Spitballin here, but maybe it’d even be called cow flu if it wasn’t so bad for some rich people’s business. That’s probably just the cynicism talking, though.

    The fact seems to be that many of these flu’s are interspecies and the origin seems largely irrelevant. It’s my understanding that covid-19 originated in pangolins, but “pangolin flu” didn’t seem to stick, did it?

    I’d be happy if someone with actual epidemiological knowledge could chime in here.

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      It’s because they’re infected with avian influenza and ‘cow flu’ doesn’t exist afaik.

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      Influenza is a type of virus, completely unrelated to coronavirus. And COVID-19 originated in bats, not pangolins.

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      The pangolin transmission is still just a theory based on the fact that you’d have to eat way too much bat to infect yourself based on that.

      The only certainty is that it was once transmitted by bats.

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    I wonder what all the headline could have said he’s been in contact with. His wife? Car? A BLT? 3 children in a trench coat?