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[–] [email protected] 43 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Texan flu, we got to do something about it folks a-little-trolling

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Ted Flu is a loser, even his wife thinks it. A lot of people are thinking it. a-little-trolling

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 43 points 7 months ago (2 children)

COMMUNIST JOE BRANDON is going to make us all wear masks again and wash our hands

[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So long as he doesn’t send the ass inspectors to make me wipe, that would be bridge too far….assuming the hypothetical isn’t in Baltimore at least.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So long as he doesn’t send the ass inspectors to make me wipe, that would be bridge too far….assuming the hypothetical isn’t in Baltimore at least.

There's a "harbour entrance" joke in there somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Bud, that’s an awesome seed of a joke. I’ll tag you if I figure it out.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

I am honoured.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I'm pretty confident at this point if there was a literal zombie virus that could be prevented by wearing masks the U.S. would rather just start fencing off territory that was completely overrun.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

We could ask people to mask and shelter in place for a few weeks and give people food and medicine in the meantime, or we could just start nuking entire communities to try to contain it. Let's see here which options help me improve my earnings this quarter. Ah, nuking entire communities it is!

[–] [email protected] 39 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

damn, if this blows up that’s two pandemics within five years both caused by the US

[–] [email protected] 34 points 7 months ago (1 children)

matter of time before there's US human-to-human transmission

the good news is quarantine will only be a few months this time

the bad news is this time you'll need to board up your windows and doors and sleep with a gun, and when you finally go outside half the country will be dead

[–] [email protected] 36 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Nah, there won't be a quarantine.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

I mean there will be, we'll just be on our own for it

you'll definitely still be expected to go to work

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)

“We are aware of the ongoing zombie apocalypse, all employees are still expected to work their assigned shifts”

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

"In response to the zombie apocalypse, the CDC has recommended practicing social distancing to prevent infection."

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

I think that's the same as there not being a quarantine lol

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

In other words 95% of USians will completely ignore it.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Everything is sicker in texas

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago

"There's no pandemic, it's just an election year smuglord "

-my entire extended family in a few months whilst choking to death, on bird COVID this time

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago

If you don't like this and you ain't vegan then well

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago

Americans being the plague rats of humanity as always

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago

what were the cows and the birds getting up to thonk

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The patient, who reported eye redness as the only symptom

So, how did they even find this guy? Are they preemptively testing people for the flu? Did the guy go in for pink eye and they just decided it was the flu instead because he was around cows presumed to be infected?

I'm not trying to deny the situation, it's just that there seems to be some missing info, here.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I also found that strange but I looked it up and found CDC Brief Summary for Clinicians: Evaluating and Managing Patients Exposed to Birds Infected with Avian Influenza A Viruses of Public Health Concern:

CDC recommends that people with these exposures monitor their health for any signs and symptoms for 10 days after their exposure and to call their health department if they develop illness. Health departments may ask responders to seek care and/or testing for avian influenza A virus infection, including specific testing for avian influenza A viruses. [...] If conjunctivitis [eye redness] is present, conjunctival [eye] swabs should be collected.

I'm gonna say this person is a worker at a facility where there is an outbreak. Some kind of ag public health nerd conveyed to the workers that any of a broad range of symptoms (see link) is cause for concern in this context. And this person either out of obedience or fear of disease or hoping to get some paid time off did as they were told, went to the ER or a walk in or whatever where a swab was done.

Basically, at least a few people did their jobs by the book. (Forgetting about the broader situation of the business.) It makes sense to have a lower threshold to to test in a very small number of the highest risk people.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

This makes sense.

Good to know those workers probably arent being left to completely fend for themselves, theres a protocol, and its being followed.

It was just a weird way to report a situation like this.

Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Okay... So, the person was working with dairy cows. A person working around dairy cows spends WAY more time in close contact with them that a person working around beef cattle.

There's ALL sorts of shared infections that cows can get and spread to people and people can get and spread to cows. So things like, just general staph infections and pink eye are not uncommon.

Best guess, is that a person working around the dairy cows thought they might have got pink eye or a staph infection in or around their eye and were smart enough to go get it checked out. The docs were smart enough (or maybe there's a mandatory testing/reporting like there is for stuff like Rocky Mountain Spotted Tick Fever) to check for a range of diseases that can/do jump species.

The article is unclear if the patient was found to have live virus or if there was just some immune system check that showed a past exposure to the bird flu.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

Thats not good wtf

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

cues up “dont fear the reaper”

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Can we somehow make reactionaries think eating infected steak tartare will own the libs?

"Communist Joe Brandon prefers medium well beef, we can fight back against DEI by eating raw mince with a raw egg mixed in."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

China is responsible. Somehow.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Health officials have said the infection doesn't affect its current health risk assessment for the public, which is considered low.

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