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Re: China reports human case of H3N8 bird flu

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Post by loeg » Wed, Mar 29, 2023, 10:54 PM UTC

arisAlexis wrote: post #121

loeg wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Monkeypox was pretty clearly a non-event for the vast majority of the population pretty early on. There continued to be misleading and fearmongering reporting for weeks and months after that was obvious, because of the well-known phenomenon where media gets more clicks and eyeballs if the "news" is bad. Also, Covid doomers really wanted a 2nd thing to be depressed about.

No it wasn't but because your gamble won and with hindsight bias you can state that now.

If you think that is responsive to my comment, you're thinking of a much earlier point in time than I am.

Re: China reports human case of H3N8 bird flu

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Post by dmix » Thu, Mar 30, 2023, 1:36 AM UTC

__d wrote: post #123

dmix wrote: post #82

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Just because “American also bad” doesn’t mean that they are in the same ballpark of bad.

Agreed. See the last line in my comment.

I read that before replying. That was the type cope that come attached to these sorts of distracting replies to redirect attention to the amateur leagues while the NBA tier players run rampant.

Re: China reports human case of H3N8 bird flu

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Post by codeddesign » Thu, Mar 30, 2023, 4:55 AM UTC

Coming out of China..what a surprise. Just wall off that country and the world would be a whole lot safer.

Re: China reports human case of H3N8 bird flu

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Post by prewett » Fri, Mar 31, 2023, 2:06 AM UTC

sgent wrote: post #108

prewett wrote: post #106

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People in China also interact more closely with animals, and with a wider variety, than in the West. The West does not have any wet markets or nor the wide variety of species available for consumption. This helps in the virus jumping species. Once it jumps, the population density helps it spread.

Ever been to a county fair?

Once or twice, although it wasn't a major sort of fair. There were a lot of animals, and now that I think about it, quite a wide variety of chickens. But it's only a few weeks out of the year, and in summer. And not very much blood. (Don't know if blood makes a difference in this case, though) I'm still a little shocked by the (large) fish gills I saw hanging up on a wall in a market in Hong Kong some years ago, looked like it was still breathing.