• ubergeek@lemmy.today
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    16 hours ago

    Well, thankfully, civilized nations around the globe will be able to contain the damage to mostly just the fascist Imperial States of America.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      There is not a chance of that happening.

      People in America also thought that Covid was just something “over there” when it started in China, too. That’s not how disease works.

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      7 hours ago

      No they won’t be able to. There is no tested and mass produced vaccine as of yet. There is no guarantee that a vaccine vs the present bird flu will work against what idiots brew up. Even if the experimental vaccines we have in the pipe are functional against the strain that emerges there is no reason to believe that everyone especially the poorer nations shall be able to manufacture enough fast enough to prevent widespread death.

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        5 hours ago

        Covid did have the silver lining of really jump-starting science and medicine in this regard. I shudder to think how the viciously stupid and hateful donvict administration will handle something like bird flu, even with these great tools we now have.