A controversial proposal from U.S Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to let bird flu naturally spread through poultry farms is raising alarms among scientists – who say the move could be inhumane and dangerous.

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    Let’s not use the word “controversial” when “nobody with any qualifications would ever fucking agree with this” is more accurate. Controversial suggests a lack of consensus.

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    If bird flu is such a minor issue, I say we inject it into Donald Trump, JD Vance, RFK Jr., and Elon Musk. Demonstrate how safe it is. Do it. Come on. DO IT YOU WUSSES.

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      why inject, since you can spread bird flu by coughing in the same room as them. Trump also is a well known germaphobe too, considered trump and his dad both bullied thier brother into suicide and alcoholism.

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        I’m pretty sure bird flu currently cannot be spread person-to-person and that’s why it’s only a notable concern rather than a pandemic 2.0 level threat

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      Interestingly, my understanding of the way in which flu vaccine was (in part) produced involved injecting blood infected with a the flu into developing chicken embryos (eggs), allowing them to develop the flu, and several probably very complicated steps later, you’ve got flu virus particles for a vaccine.

      Any ways…

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      Yes. Tell them we need their ubermensch genetics to base a cure on. Tell them they’ll be rich for it.

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    That’s not RFK Jr. talking. He died long ago. His body is being controlled by the worms.

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    Who would have known. The russian mafia puppet government that’s doing it’s best impression of the New world order stereotype… is suggesting a population cull

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    The Secretary of HEALTH recommends letting a pandemic spread. Think about that for a second.

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    Hahahahahaha jesus tapdancing christ this timeline is fucking wild. He is going to create the conditions for the next pandemic. It’s gonna start here. I’m calling it now.

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          Still epidemic, and I’m pretty sure it won’t become pandemic because developed countries and developing countries (where do I even place the USA now) trust in vaccinations

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            eh, pandemic, epidemic, what’s the difference?

            I know there’s actually a difference and the difference does matter, but I don’t know what the difference is and I use the two words interchangeably. My point was that shit’s fucked.

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          We’re going to have at least two pandemics at the same time, and the USA will have no government left to deal with it, just a few kooks and Nazis with their theories of eugenics, random vitamins, bleach, horse dewormers and survival of the most racially superior.

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          enough people are still immune, i suspect chickenpox will make a big comeback, since the vaccine also doesnt entirely protect against it either, there have been people getting shingles while vaccinated later in life, so they got reinfected at some point. chickenpox is also pretty severe in adults, in men it can cause orchitis.

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      Everyone who survives will be immune.

      That’s the whole logic. It was awful enough with Covid’s 1% mortality. Measles only kills about 0.1%. Bird flu kills 90-100% of infected birds and 50% of infected humans. And there’s plenty of lasting/permanent deficits short of literal death. They’re psychopaths.

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        hey theres a good chance certain very old people in leadership and in high risk group of falling over to it will catch it, so the problem would solve itself naturally?

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        Say 2% of the population get sick and 50% of that die, that’s 4 million potential deaths.

        But yeah right wingers, tell me again how socialism kills so many people…

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    What a fucking disgrace he is to the Kennedy legacy. I hope he gets swallowed by a whale or gets eaten by a bear or a worm eating his brain.

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      his own family more or less disowned a while ago, and also hes not all there because the way he speaks is like someone got a stroke, he was a known heroin addict.

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    BND: There’s a high probability that the last pandemic was caused by negligence in China.

    US: Last Pandemic? Wait, hold my pisswater.

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    I remember when people laughed at the concept of the immune system being like a muscle, that needs frequent excercise, and with same excercise it could be built back.

    Good times.

    Nowadays I wonder when will people shoot each other with increasingly higher caliber bullets to build up immunity to bullets.

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    I guess that would succeed in killing off a bunch of the elderly and infirmed, which be a huge savings to Medicare and social Security, so it’s a win-win right?

    /S if it wasn’t implied already

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      That is exactly how the Nazis in charge are thinking about this. They assume they’ll make it through because they’re constitutionally superior, while the weak die and are no longer a burden on the Übermenschen.