• OpenStarsEnglish
    -6•1 month ago

    I wonder why an “emergency”? The person who got sick was in Louisiana, and pasteurized milk, unlike raw, is entirely safe to drink. So if nobody in CA is sick, then…? The article did not seem to answer why.

    • @[email protected]OP
      20•1 month ago

      Sale of raw milk is legal in California, and the cows are widely infected. Bird flu is showing up in sewage in most of the state, which suggests that there are likely to be a whole bunch more infected people who don’t realize what they have.

      • OpenStarsEnglish
        2•1 month ago

        Thank you for answering. My comment probably sounded like conspiratorial nonsense, but you answered as if it were - and it was - authentic, so thanks.

    • @[email protected]
      2•1 month ago

      Because dipshits gonna dipshit.

      Crunchy types who think ultra bacterial/viral milk is health beneficial and that bacteria free (pasteurized, as in, flashed with some heat) is terrible for their health, will go out of their way to continue consuming it. Remember, “I don’t wanna” is a predictor of human behavior.

      We also have the premier dipshit, RFK, heading health, and a CDC that doesn’t do pandemic work (see: Reveal podcast’s 3 part series on the COVID project), so it could be that California is treating this as one of many things states have to do themselves, by themselves, going forward. My read of the post election news is all 3 west coast states plan to do for themselves, as independently as possible, since Trump won. This action fits that narrative and theif GDPs, CA especially, do make that plausible. As such, OR and even WA may follow suit if more cases appear.

      Newsom is also gunning to run in 2028, assume we have democratic elections instead of Putin style elections going forward.

      • OpenStarsEnglish
        1•1 month ago

        I was wondering if it was only going to affect people who drink raw milk, but other articles are reminding me that it still affects the farm workers themselves (which I thought protective gear was shown ro be sufficient there, but I don’t recall how certain that is).

    • @njm1314
      2•1 month ago

      Who told you that nobody in California is sick?

          • OpenStarsEnglish
            0•1 month ago

            Maybe I misunderstood - hence why I asked - but passages such as these led me to question what then it was trying to say:

            “If you’re not working directly with animals right now, it would not be the top thing that I’d be worried about… It’s unlikely right now that’s going to be a problem for most people.”

            "… right now, there’s no reason to panic or really do anything beyond avoid raw milk products.”