step 1: PASTURIZE YOUR FUCKING MILK.
jeezus christ on a cracker.
oat milk as well?
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As someone who did my part with the social distancing, masks, and shots up to the 2nd booster, I genuinely just do not care any more. Let’s face it the worlds trending downwards now for whatever reason we want to blame it on. If the virus gets me that’s fine. I’ll probably not listen to any regulations if it ever got to it.
Same. I don’t drink milk and don’t eat meat anyway, so to “avoid it” there isn’t much more i can do. If the shit blows up, i don’t really care anymore. Random ass people still tell me how they never get vaccinated ever again because they got "tricked last time. Seriously, what do you even tell these people? The world is doomed and maybe that’s not a bad thing.
So, one thing to consider is that “how bad it gets” can be directly related to how well people and governments prepare. For example, if the CDC starts work on having vaccines made and stockpiled now, they may be able to react quickly and decisively to any outbreaks as they happen and prevent them from growing to a pandemic level. If infections are kept to low levels and the CDC ultimately has a lot of left over vaccines, did it “over react”? It’s actually a hard question to answer, because it’s entirely possibly that the end result was a direct result of that stockpiling and rapid reaction, leading to some level of wastage. However, had those precautionary steps not been taken, shit would have hit the fan.
We had something similar back with the Y2K Bug was being talked about. Companies lost their shit over it. But, when the date finally rolled over, it seemed to be a huge nothing-burger. Part of the reason it was such a nothing-burger was the fact that companies actually did a lot of work to validate and fix software before the date roll over. So, in retrospect, lots of people talk about the Y2K bug like it was all hype. But, had action not been taken ahead of time, it really would have caused a lot of problems.
This is the perennial problem with proactive fixes, if they are done right, people won’t be sure you have done anything at all. So, it is often difficult to get people to prioritize future problems. Even when the cost to fix those problems now will be vastly less than waiting until the problem actually arrives.
So no, I don’t think it’s “overblown” per se. It something that governments and health organizations should be tracking and should be working to have plans and resources available for. On a personal level, not much is changing. It’s not currently at a level that I feel I need to make major lifestyle changes to avoid. The CDC puts the risk as currently low, and has seen no cases of human to human transmission. If any of that changes, I’ll re-evaluate.
Praying to God it kills the return to office movement
I’m going to cook my chicken before I eat it.
I’ve gone back to wearing a mask in public.
I never stopped.
I’m with you bro.
I think it’s good for early warning to reach the public. Ideally this would allow the public to support handling it post-haste. Realistically it probably will churn in the news, get a little worse, then depending on how/if it mutates, die off or go full blown and people will likely react similar to COVID. Maybe (and hopefully) a little more responsibly if the lethality stays high.
Becoming increasingly clear that nothing good is ever going to happen again, so if it gets me it gets me. Long live our successor, the saiga antelope.
They have noses worthy of being our successor species. Something you’d see on the cover of a sci-fi novel called “Children of Earth” or something…
Already got a box of N95s and a stick with nails hammered into it to beat the next motherfucker that tries to accuse China of this one when it’s just plain, raw, yankee greed and shitty living qualities for the livestock they ‘raise’. Plus a healthy smattering of those same yankees being absolutely brickshittingly ignorant.
Time to buy more bread flour I guess.
My Facebook is hammered with articles about how it’s overblown and is being used by governments to silence you and bring on a new pandemic where they force you to wear masks and keep you locked inside your house. Something something 15 minute cities, the WEF, and a guy named Klaus.
Lots of people taking pictures holding chickens and other fowl to spite “the new plandemic” so chances are we’re gonna have another real one. Just based on the fact that people are purposefully trying to expose themselves to “get back at science”.
When I worked in retail I had to ask people to wear a mask. Not a problem at all. But there was this one lady who came behind the counter an coughed on me? Technically it was assault because I even got spit on me.
Like at what point does someone cross into being just plain evil.
I’ve mostly worked retail jobs in my life, but I got lucky and avoided any public-facing work during peak COVID. Customer service is rough at the best of times, but I can’t imagine having to deal with the anti-mask crowd.
I loved it actually. Out of hundreds of people a day only one would require real handling. I don’t think they realized that they were that one special asshole.
That lady would have left with less teeth.
Over here that’d be illegal. But it would certainly give her a good reason to put on a mask!
If you’re assaulted, don’t have the right to defend yourself?
Over here you’ll want to simply remove yourself and contact the authorities. If that’s not possible you’ll want to use proportionate force.
In this case I’d say that means I’d be allowed to carefully push her from behind the counter and then call the police.
That probably fits as a legal assault in many countries. So messed up.
That’s just downright awful. I’m sorry you were assaulted by a waste of flesh.
I think she had a mental issue. Like her eyes weren’t right.
I never stopped my COVID routine so I’m not really doing anything different to prepare but I am at least a little prepared. Going to buy one of those emergency 5-gallon buckets of dehydrated food this time around though, like next time I’m at a bulk food not as shit hits the fan.
I haven’t put much thought into if it is overblown because realistically I’d prefer to see a big fuss over nothing than to see people sit back with a beer while their neighbors die. So I’m not going to treat it like we’re overreacting I’m going to be pretty serious about things.
At the moment it has a pretty low (~0) person to person infection rate.
But, it does have a 56% mortality rate (Covid was between 3%-5%) so I don’t think we should be fucking around with our response to it.
Viruses can mutate and that R value (person to person transmission rate) can shoot up after a mutation.
I would much rather us have an “overblown” response than an inadequate response like we did with Covid. .Higher mortality rate generally means lower transmission since the infected don’t live long enough to pass it along. If it mutates to be less fatal then I’ll be more worried.
In most species, bird flu is both highly infectious and very deadly. A disease being very infectious can make up for its lethality
They tend to correlate but a virus can easily be both deadly and transmissive. R value is really the only thing to watch here, until a large population is sick we don’t really know the impact anyways.
Panic buy pasta and bog roll, just like last time.
Had to google bog roll.
Would “shiteroll” have made more sense?
