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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

There won't be a next season, the show is cancelled.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

so less maga voters at a very high price

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Nah, they're cheap. Let the die, it's what they wanted, it's what they've voted for, I won't shed a tear from their suffering

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 weeks ago

So next year the elderly and youth won’t be defended against the potential flu strain of the year. What could possibly go wrong.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Lol.

Hope everyone's ready for another pandemic. After all, an anti-vaxxer with brain worms is in charge of our health.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

may every fascist be able to afford a rope.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

They have their swatzicars for that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 66 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Let’s pray for Trump and all the geriatric scum in congress getting the flu.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

You know that they will still get the best quality healthcare, right? In the taxpayer dime no less!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Yeah but at their age there is still a good chance they get wiped out if they get hospitalized by the flu and they are unvaccinated even with good healthcare. And if they survive good chance the flu will advance their dementia to the next stage.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Oh don’t you worry, they’ll still get vaccinated using whatever blend a competent government (EU) decides upon in collaboration with the WHO.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

They won't. They will still get the proper shots.

It's right in line with their all for me none for thee cult.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Hard to get the proper shots if the FDA doesn't even know what the proper shots should be... Flu mutates rapidly, that's why we get updated flu vaccines every year.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

They'll just have it figured out privately. They've got their fingers in everything now.

Their goal is to get the masses sick and not themselves. All to further their agenda of becoming dictator-kings.

The people who curry favor will get access to medical care the masses won't.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

That's what they think too. Unfortunately, they are yet unable to buy immortality. You cannot buy something that does not exist. They cannot pay money to buy knowledge from thin air, or manufacture a product with no lead time, no matter how much money they have.

They can however seclude themselves on a private island and live vicariously through a phone screen in a reality of their own. Until wifi drops, at least.

"the event" is exciting. fresh and new. a real challenge. Afterwards... is boring. sucky. nobody wants to be there. so don't imagine it. they could head to their bunkers right now, if they wanted. but they won't. they just keep waiting for "the end" that never comes. The game doesn't stop, the credits don't roll.

A billion dollars won't buy you the exit from the rat race. Try again.

[–] [email protected] 170 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

"It's a bad day for infectious diseases," said Dr. Ofer Levy

I would argue it’s a great day for infectious diseases, but a bad day for humanity.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Too true. Queue meme:
"~~Capitalism~~ Horrors persist, but so do I"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I will say that they whiffed incredibly badly on this year's flu prediction.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

That happens from time to time; it's incredibly hard to predict which strains will be prevalent months down the line, and flu mutates so rapidly that what's circulating now might be a rather different strain from what will be circulating by the time the vaccine is rolling out. It's frequently a shot in the dark, but shooting in the dark is always going to get more hits than not shooting at all.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 weeks ago

Another fun fact, they usually don't just select a single strain for the yearly vaccine. They often select a handful of strains, and net on one of them being the one.

So a shotgun in the dark.

[–] [email protected] 83 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

The circumstances for a bird flu pandemic are already shockingly perfect in the US and they get worse every day.

Bird flu is running free in US farms, with limited attempts to stop it. The chances of it moving in to humans is already very high in fhe US. And the CDC is barely monitoring this anymore, the US has left WHO and now the US is abandoning flu vaccines.

The US is a perfect incubator for a major flu pandemic. It will be random luck as to how deadly a coming flu pandemic will be, but its been given the best chance to develop and spread. This is increasingly scary.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I wonder if they "Spanish" flu it all over again by claiming it started elsewhere.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

The flu A this year was awful, even with the vaccine, and bird flu is a type of flu A. People are saying that the normal flu test at the doctor will show flu A if you have bird flu, so maybe we’ve already gotten it all over, just no one is testing for this specific bird flu.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 weeks ago

Over on the nursing subreddit, some hospitals have been subtyping flu A and as of last week, the people that posted said it was not bird flu positive, it was the other "normal" strain.

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