Hey at least covid showed us we’re prepared to handle that really well

Great timing too, as fascism and anti-intellectialism grows and spreads. As the US is deregulating anything it can, threats of climate change become real... Many populations of birds and mammals are struggling to survive as it is, and throwing something this deadly into the mix doesn't just hurt humans from our own pandemic, but it becomes a food issue as well. It's a compounding issue. Even just birds, they eat bugs that are crop killers. So we're losing meat and produce.

There are reasons for optimism: vaccines and antivirals should be effective against avian influenza, and the world is far better prepared thanks to lessons learned from COVID, particularly in diagnostics and global surveillance.

Oh you sweet summer child

Time to play Plague inc. Again

And governments plan to start reacting in 2028, and to stop caring in 2029

Maybe this one will teach us something.

There are reasons for optimism: vaccines and antivirals should be effective against avian influenza, and the world is far better prepared thanks to lessons learned from COVID, particularly in diagnostics and global surveillance.

That's a very optimistic take on the lessons from COVID. Cause the lessons that I learned from political leaders was "Fuck the pandemic protections, the economy must be protected." and "Science is wrong about everything."

Maybe we deserve it.

INB4 anyone says, "I didn't vote for this" or "I don't deserve it" - what are you doing to change things? Holding up a sign? Peacefully protesting? Not shopping at Amazon?

That doesn't move the needle.

Until the billionaires and corporations milking the country at our expense fear for their lives, nothing will change.

And, yes, I'm guilty too, because commenting on Lemmy does jack shit.

Connection to collapse is tenuous, apart from intensive mixed animal husbandry mostly in Asia encouraging crossover of animal pathogens and high-frequency long-distance travelling in high density environments encouraging rapid spread to pandemics. Both would appear to be self-regulating.

Great. If it stops people from taking planes and driving all over the fucking place, good. COVID maybe gave us 2 years more in the climate crisis. It changed our way of working for the better. It revealed the failings of our educational system and outed the idiots among us. Had COVID been deadlier, it would've killed way more idiots. Yes, of course there were many innocent people that died, but there were so many fuckwits who didn't take it seriously and that were lucky to have been dumb at the right moment...

Wow...BBC has really degraded into clickbait shit.

This is not possible because we fired everybody at the CDC who tracks this therefore there is no bird flu

(/s)

I think there are far too many people in the world.