When H5N1 avian influenza started spreading among dairy cattle across the U.S. this year, regulators warned against consuming unpasteurized milk. What happened? Raw milk sales went up.

Distributors of this unsafe-for-human-consumption product deny H5N1—which has the potential to sicken millions of people—is a danger. Dairy farmers decline to allow disease detectives onto their properties.

  • Skvlp
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    235 months ago

    Can we please put some kindergarten nannies in charge of that nation…?

    • @[email protected]
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      235 months ago

      I’ve seen some freaking health professionals go full anti-mask and anti-vax. Like one of my friends is an RN and she went full Facebook Karen.

      You can’t fix stupid.

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        195 months ago

        Yeah covid revealed there are a LOT of registered nurses i do not want involved in my health care.

        Like, a lot

        • @[email protected]
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          95 months ago

          I’ve seen the same here in Finland too. What is it with nurses going off the reich wing anti-vax / anti-mask deep end?

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            45 months ago

            They want to help people, but all the science stuff is boring. I guess.

            • @[email protected]
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              75 months ago

              Probably a nontrivial amount of wanting to feel smarter than “those know-it-all doctors with their fancy degrees” with a side of Dunning-Kruger

      • Skvlp
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        65 months ago

        That is genuinely freaky. I mean they should know better. Like way better.

    • toastboy79
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      205 months ago

      I don’t think you understand just how stupid my fellow country members are. We literally say “hey to prevent getting yourself and others sick, you should do these steps” making it a suggestion of reasonable things.

      the response “my freedoms are being trampled”. I fucking wish they actually were.

      • Skvlp
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        35 months ago

        The scary thing is that that frame of mind exists elsewhere as well. But I guess it’s more of it in the US.

        • toastboy79
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          35 months ago

          That would be some really cool data to view “how stubborn are the attitudes in different countries” and “how many personalities are stubborn in different countries”

          • Skvlp
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            15 months ago

            I like foolhardy in this context. And a foolhardy index would be interesting.

            • toastboy79
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              15 months ago

              true true, that’s an excellent term for it. If only we could somehow assess it with metrics and data

              • Skvlp
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                15 months ago

                I don’t have a solution for that, unfortunately.

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      75 months ago

      republiQans. We’re talking about republiQans.

      (Okay, fine and also some nazis, Qultists, some facebook boomers, a fair few Libertarians, and some woowoo newager people.)

      But, look, just say republiQans and have done with it. “Americans” is more than too general, it’s an absolute cop-out.

      • Skvlp
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        25 months ago

        You know, looking at world news, maybe kindergarten nurses should be in charge of the world?