• @[email protected]
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    Oh, fantastic. The pandemic-industrial complex is back on the menu. We’ve spent decades industrializing agriculture into viral petri dishes, then act shocked when nature mutates around our hubris. Cows are just the latest domino—watch the blame shift to “wet markets” or migratory birds while factory farms keep hosing antibiotics into troughs.

    But sure, let’s hyperventilate about proximity to doom. Never mind that zoonotic spillover’s been a ticking clock since we decided monoculture and profit margins trump ecosystem logic. The real virus here? Capitalism with a side of amnesia.

  • @[email protected]
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    Just in time for the hero to save the day with the ol’ UV lung-bleach-brush combo move and horse dewormer aperitif.

  • @El_guapazo
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    On Trump’s mind, as long as no one reports it then it doesn’t really exist. Remember when he said that we need to do testing for COVID to make the numbers go down? Same thing.

    • @[email protected]
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      Everyone I know who was anti-vax first started with the position that covid was fake. They all look at avian flu as just yet another “attack for pure inconvenience” without any giant profit motive.

    • @jimmy90
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      in a country that could start acting against this virus right now with RNA vaccine research has probably closed down all those facilities

  • @UncleGrandPa
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    111 day ago

    another pandemic with trump in charge?..Oh fuck.

  • @surph_ninja
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    532 days ago

    This is being buried by both liberal and conservative media. It’s fucking wild how bad this is without anyone knowing.

    • LuckingFurker (Any/All)
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      To be fair, what even is the fucking point of reporting it anymore? We saw what ended up happening with covid, where even otherwise right-minded people started having tantrums about masks and vaccines. The vast majority of people are not going to take precautions with a new pandemic, I half expect the right wingers to start deliberately sneezing in each others faces and asking if we’re triggered by it. We’re screwed if another pandemic happens, and reporting on it won’t even remotely change that, as a species overall we just be too stupid to survive

      • Obinice
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        Yes, when I visited the USA during COVID people actively got into my face and coughed at my face. Intentionally, to be clear.

        This was out in public in places like supermarkets.

        Absolutely abhorrent people. I’m glad I’m back in Europe for the next pandemic, much safer.

        • @[email protected]
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          Literally never had this happen and I live in a densely populated city in Texas.

          Vast majority of people masked without issue

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          The US is huge, and that kind of attitude will (for the most part) only be present in certain areas of the country. It’s best that those places are avoided.

        • LuckingFurker (Any/All)
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          I can’t speak for Europe proper (relatively sane Europe), here in the UK I fully expect most of that same kind of behaviour. Probably not to the same extent as the US but it’ll be bad

          • @davepleasebehave
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            people speak English and thus the propaganda naturally leaks across the pond I’m afraid.

            • LuckingFurker (Any/All)
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              Yep, although I take some slight comfort that the whole “deep state” thing doesn’t seem to have found much of a foothold here (yet?)

                • LuckingFurker (Any/All)
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                  Good old fashioned British conspiracy theories, none of this foreign muck - luv me reptilian royal family, 'ate the deep state, simple as

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          You know I’m all about making sure my country’s lies are out in the open but man everyone everywhere I live in USA was masked up minus the couple of idiots that exist in every country. Y’all I’m mad at this shit that’s going on too but this statement is a false blanket statement.

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        I would at least like to know if it’s a problem so I can take appropriate personal precautions. Sure I don’t need a running death count every day like we had during Covid but just like “this thing is out there, here’s what you can do”

    • @Doomsider
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      Ah yes, the mythical left leaning mainstream media. Having said that this story already broke on Fortune, NY times, Fox, CNN, Washington Post, CBS, and NPR to name a few.

      You could be right though, they may stop talking about it because apparently the Department of Education is being demolished on Monday. Don’t forget about the Magabowl!

  • Cyrus Draegur
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    … fuck me dead it’s infecting mammals now

    and the current administration has shuttered the CDC and the NIH, and has withdrawn us from the WHO.

  • @werefreeatlast
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    So this will just fix itself.

    I’m almost done transitioning my family to drink oat mil…juice instead.

  • @[email protected]
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    61 day ago

    I’m not worried about a new pandemic. Trumpy Dumpy, Muskie, and Mr. Brain Worms will get us though it; plus or minus a few million dead people.

  • @Treczoks
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    Don’t worry, Americans. JFK will protect you, won’t he?

    • Druid
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      81 day ago

      I think your joke’s not getting through to people :D