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why?
I thought that 2023 was being suspiciously quiet…. >

BAWGH GAWD HERE COMES 2023 WITH A STEEL CHAIR 🪑 >

"MY GOD, 2023 HAS THROWN HUMANITY OFF OF THE CAGE AND INTO THE ANNOUNCERS TABLE, BAH GOD AS MY WITNESS THEY ARE BROKEN IN HALF >

Table time biiiih. >

Mink farms are incredibly concerning as well. >

12 Monkeys 2: 12,000 Minkies. >

Thank you for this. I laughed for a good couple of minutes there. >

"The virus is not known to spread well between mammals; people almost 
always catch it from infected birds, not one another. But now, H5N1 
appears to have spread through a densely packed mammalian population and
 gained at least one mutation that favors mammal-to-mammal spread
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Fuck. >

Industrial farms are literally bioweapons labs. >

But bacon. >

When I cough to death in some ICU it will be with a bucket of bacon at my side! >

Wow, who knew keeping large populations of same species in incredibly tight spaces will lead to disease jumping species much easier? 
Fucking anyone who paid attention to the domestication process in the last 10000 years is who. >

we love our disease incubators >

Bomb. Start bombing the mink farm and everyone in it. >

Perfect reference! >

As a birdwatcher, the bird flu is a serious problem and could absolutely lead to another crazy pandemic. Maybe not in humans just yet, but it's devastating bird populace globally and a huge issue that now looks to be transmissible to mammals. That a huge, huge red flag. >

Who knew that /r/birdsArentReal was actually foreshadowing the future... >

Could you fucking not? >

Well, we might have dodged a bullet according to this paper out today in Phys.org. Until the next one. >

This should be pinned to the top of this thread. >

Oh shit.

On 17 January, Montana authorities said three juvenile grizzly bears euthanized in the fall after becoming very sick were infected with H5N1 as well. People have caught it, too. So far there have been six confirmed human infections in the current global wave, including one death. >

Those would likely be bird to mammal rather than mammal to mammal though right? >

Yes. >

Babe wake up new Spanish flu just dropped! >

new response just dropped >

Pandemic 2 FIGHT! >

SPANISH FLU 2.0 
Here we fucking go >

Just gonna pretend like I didn’t see this post and go about my day… >

Hey I've seen this movie before!
No, seriously! There was a series about a pandemic caused by mink transmitted disease right before the COVID pandemic. It kinda finished abruptly; I'm assuming nobody wanted to spread more fears via a tv series >

"farmed mink" aka mink living in a hell on earth created by humans, brought in to the world only to be needlessly slaughtered. >

Fill in the animal name with any one that produces a commodity with a value and you're halfway to understanding the capitalist hellscape we will slog through until the last human expires. >

2023 has started. Yes >

Let’s just all die his time, problem solved >

Oh none for me, I've had much too much pandemic these past few years. >

Good, people still wear mink? Fuck em >

March 20th 2023, H5N1 drops, three years after Covd-19 album debuts. Two hit singles, worldwide...Calling it now. >

Let's just go ahead and nudge that clock a little bit closer to midnight >

69 seconds to midnight? >

At least there is motivation to keep it from getting lower. >

Doesn't this shit have like 50-60% mortality rate on humans? >

56% of the known cases killed over 130 people from the last outbreak in 2003. It's probably less, but still vastly higher than COVID. And noone will get a free pass with a flu. Flu's always suck unless you got a vaccine.
Any of the pending comments about it not really spreading from mammal to mammal... Or questioning that if we don't know if it spreads well from person to person so don't assume it is contagious... Are full of shit. 
It's a virus, we know how flus spread. We cought it, sneeze it, spread it on surfaces after touching our faces and shit it out. It infects cells that are accessible from eating and breathing. We know what it is and what it isn't. It won't take much for this to grow, granted it probably has not yet had a launching point yet to spread much in people. >

Seriously,  because I don't know. What in thee fuck are we raising large amounts of mink for? Coats? That's fuckin ridiculous. >

To the person who plays real-life Plague.inc on easy mode with cheats/hacks : 
Please stop. >

This is why I flush the toilet >

Nice one spain >

Flu mRNA vaccines when >

Here we go Spanish flu 23 >

Nothing to see here. Just go about your daily lives citizens. >

A mink farm in the EU in 2023? >

Why are mink getting bird flu? >

Well that will be quicker than climate change. >

This was three months ago for anyone wondering. >

Can we get working 9n a vaccine like, yesterday? >

All those companies firing remote workers are going to have a lot of not egg on their faces soon. >

I'm gonna fucking say it. As a vegan, this is getting real fucking old. FUCK animal agriculture. >

That’s it I’m bringing napalm air strikes back into fashion.