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#11

Yeah, bird flu is really bad.

What is the executive branch of the government doing about H5N1 currently? I have not seen any press releases or statements about it. edit: I'm not being facetious, and don't welcome flippant replies. I'm genuinely interested, since I haven't seen any updates and have well-founded reasons to be skeptical this is getting the necessary attention.

Look to how they handled covid as a guide for how they manage future outbreaks.

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#12

Yeah, bird flu is really bad.

Why does this mostly affect the US? I've been abroad most of the year and eggs don't seem overly expensive.

My guess is how lax the US is with factory farm animal welfare. When an epidemic breaks out, it hits these factory farms much harder and the USDA (government food agency) cracks down and indirectly drives up prices.

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#13

Yeah, bird flu is really bad.

What is the executive branch of the government doing about H5N1 currently? I have not seen any press releases or statements about it. edit: I'm not being facetious, and don't welcome flippant replies. I'm genuinely interested, since I haven't seen any updates and have well-founded reasons to be skeptical this is getting the necessary attention.

They're preventing public health agencies from talking about it (or anything else), so if you haven't heard anything: mission accomplished!

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#14

Yeah, bird flu is really bad.

This is why we must freeze USDA funding, halt all public health communications from our federal government, and urgently (TOP PRIORITY!!!) scrub all mentions of the word "women" from every public-facing piece of scientific content we can find.

I did think it was funny that they included 'women' and 'female' in that list. Medicine is gonna have a hard time with that one, "this drug has some adverse effects with uhh… ovulating persons?"

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#15

Yeah, bird flu is really bad.

This is why we must freeze USDA funding, halt all public health communications from our federal government, and urgently (TOP PRIORITY!!!) scrub all mentions of the word "women" from every public-facing piece of scientific content we can find.

I hope they stop this cultural war and focus on the real problems that actually affects the population,for example, high prices.

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#16

Yeah, bird flu is really bad.

Why does this mostly affect the US? I've been abroad most of the year and eggs don't seem overly expensive.

The bird flu is mostly contained to North America. Birds fly north/south, not east/west, so so far there has been no reports of it moving across either ocean. This is why Europeans and Asians are terrified of bird flu transmitting between humans, because then an infected human could get on a plane and spread it there. So far, however, that threat remains unrealised.

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#17
post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is why we must freeze USDA funding, halt all public health communications from our federal government, and urgently (TOP PRIORITY!!!) scrub all mentions of the word "women" from every public-facing piece of scientific content we can find.

I did think it was funny that they included 'women' and 'female' in that list. Medicine is gonna have a hard time with that one, "this drug has some adverse effects with uhh… ovulating persons?"

I don't find it funny at all.

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#18
Fresh, local eggs have remained around the same price here. While more expensive than eggs from large producers in normal times, they are now often cheaper.

This is a great reminder of how important it is to support local farmers and small operations, which increase the resilience of the system as a whole.

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#19
post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is why we must freeze USDA funding, halt all public health communications from our federal government, and urgently (TOP PRIORITY!!!) scrub all mentions of the word "women" from every public-facing piece of scientific content we can find.

I hope they stop this cultural war and focus on the real problems that actually affects the population,for example, high prices.

Musk and Trump have both publicly said that people will need to accept higher prices.
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