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he probably wouldn’t even die, he’d just spread it to as many people as possible so he can turn it into a global pandemic and kill off the “undesirables”

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Like his herpes?

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P sure bird flu is less severe than your bog standard flu in humans, it’s major risk is the damage to the food infrastructure.

That is to say, I get what you’re getting at, but, thankfully, the risk of another global pandemic with the scope and damage like with COVID-19 is incredibly low, or at least that’s what my buddies in the medical field are saying.

Edit: well dang it might be more dangerous than I was led to believe

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your buddies are absolutely divorced from reality. if they’re epidemiologists they should quit their jobs

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the h5n1 bird flu has a cfr of 48%

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From what we saw in the Canadian teen: It’s only a mutation away from ripping through humans in a real bad way. It picked up the mutation it needed to switch from preferring the alpha 2,3 receptor plentiful in birds to the alpha 2,6 sialic acids that are plentiful in the human nose, throat and lungs when the teen was infected. That teen then developed ARDS and she needed to be intubated.

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Your buddies in the medical field need to have their licenses reevaluated.

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I’m thinking now that particular line may have been dripping with their personal brand of deadpan sarcasm and I missed this by hearing it second hand.

This has been a great example of learning about something by being wrong about it on the internet, though

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