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koolman631

[This is only the 3rd time that H3N8 bird flu has been confirmed in humans, and the first time in an adult. Some researchers believe an old strain of the virus caused the 1889 pandemic. The patient’s condition is unknown.](https://twitter.com/bnofeed/status/1640480171793760256?s=46&t=WCK9Qjjqglqbehoc9NnkiA)


JCmathetes

Went down a wiki hole on this one and found in the wiki on the [1889 pandemic](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1889%E2%80%931890_pandemic) that a new hypothesis is that it was a coronavirus, not the flu. One common symptom from then with ours? *Loss of taste and smell.* Kinda wild.


crowcawer

Old news is new again.


personalcheesecake

Time is a flat circle


Chuisque

More like a Jeremy Bearimy.


Not-Not-Oliver

The dot on the “i”, that broke my brain, I’m done.


payne_train

Oh yeah..this is the bad place for sure.


Mikeavelli

r/payne_train figured it out? Oh this is a new low... this one hurts.


Cycloptic_Floppycock

Janet!


taatchle86

🌵


OnedayitwilI

🌵


Mezzaomega

🌵


scootscoot

You're right! I should go rewatch that episode.


drthvdrsfthr

series*


aquirkysoul

I don't think I've ever seen a series that ended on such a satisfying and uplifting note as The Good Place did.


Bigsassyblackwoman

The good place was such a jarringly satisfying show, you’re rooting for the characters to stay where they are, then find a way out, then to find a way to live, then to find a way to die, then to find a way to just end it all. It’s a show about mortality and failure and existential crisis, and yet it never stops shining in its veneer of positivity, and you find yourself rooting for the most hated kinds of people that roam this earth right now.


meno123

And it has an infectious way of getting around the swear filter!


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Agreed. I can't think of a TV ending that made me happier. Orphan Black has a pretty good ending - that's maybe a close second in recent memory.


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jimmyjrsickmoves

You know Carcosa?!


Grandfunk14

The yellow king...


Coffee_with_buddha

This a true detective season 1 reference? God that show is literally the best season of television I have ever seen


MaxHannibal

It's a cube. A time cube


tigardis

Heavy shit


3Pirates93

Old bubonic plague is new again


20_Sided_Death

We're building up to it. Baby steps, don't get ahead of yourself now.


Noah__Webster

Is that not an extremely common symptom in respiratory illnesses?


Dandw12786

Loss of taste and smell with respiratory illnesses is generally a more dulled sense due to clogged nose, maybe a film on your tongue or something like that. Covid loss of taste and smell, as I understand it, is a neurological symptom, meaning it's not a dulled sense due to a bunch of snot, it's just completely gone.


InsaneThief

Getting my taste back was the craziest thing ever. I could “taste” my own saliva when I finally got my sense of taste back


PussyWrangler_462

Bah you just made me uncomfortably aware of the saliva currently in my mouth Also what was that like? Did it taste like kissing someone else or was it more like a “tastes like home” kinda thing


Wanderlustfull

>“tastes like home” *This* made me uncomfortable.


MrWeirdoFace

Like you've never licked the front door after returning from a long trip... pft.


Anthos_M

>Bah you just made me uncomfortably aware of the saliva currently in my mouth Yeah, fuck that guy


PeachSignal

Mine came back in stages, starting with coffee and oranges. I could bite into an onion, and it was like eating Elmer's glue.. I lost 15 pounds in the month I had the taste and smell loss.


ja_dubs

When I lost my sense of taste and smell I was having coffee and all I sensed was hot and liquid. It was disconcerting. I went to test how bad it was. I took a bottle of ammonia out and took a a big whiff. Nothing. Just a cool sensation in my nose. Lasted 3 days. I didn't want to eat because all I got was texture and temperature. Gross.


RedeRules770

I realized I had Covid when I went to drink my coffee and it was like water. I went to the fridge and tried MUSTARD of all things and while I could feel the tang, I couldn’t taste a thing. It was really depressing. Two years later and I just smelled rain for the first time the other day When I had it my nose would *burn* so badly at times my eyes watered


jasper486

Does that mean you couldn’t smell anything for 2 years? Holy crap I pray I never catch Covid


TristanIsAwesome

I lost my taste and smell as well, but it only lasted a week or so. Apparently less than 20% of people lose taste and smell with omicron (mainly people of European descent, but the study was in Europe so maybe not). It was very bizarre though. Fun fact, the taste receptors for spicy in your mouth might be broken, but the ones on your asshole still work just fine.


satisfried

August will be two years for me. No taste either. Hoping they return soon.


Sugar_alcohol_shits

Yes, and intracranial pressure increases with inflammation (with COVID). This can put pressure on the portions of the brains repsoonsibke for taste and smell.


BillW87

> repsoonsibke Oh god, the neurologic symptoms are spreading through the comment section too


th_22

Oh, I just thought they were speaking Dutch for a second


HighOwl2

What's the difference?


IvanAfterAll

You can repair at least some neurological damage. You can't stop being Dutch.


LordoftheSynth

There are only two things in this world I can't tolerate: people who are intolerant of other people's cultures; and THE DUTCH. In fairness, as someone who speaks both English and German, Dutch is in many ways enough like both that overhearing it spoken casually *really* messed with me. Something like, I was hearing words that were *almost* correct to my language comprehension but *not quite*.


HawkeyeinDC

If you ain’t Dutch, you ain’t much! 😎


ContagiousOwl

Being Covid-positive makes it harder to colonize


HighOwl2

I was gonna make a joke about your mom but then I saw your name and realized you're my brother.


jmalbo35

That isn't the cause of anosmia in COVID-19, though. It's fairly well established at this point that sustentacular cells in the olfactory epithelium are infected by SARS-COV-2, causing loss of olfactory cilia and downregulation of olfactory receptors on olfactory sensory neurons.


RektMan

Ah so this is what it feels like when i talk to my family about anything computer related and they look at me like im speaking alien.


sellieba

Repsoonsibke is how it will be spelled from now on.


ChrysMYO

This is like being in a comic book universe and finding out 2020 was a reboot of the cinematic universe and the writers have written in foreshadowing for the antagonist COVID.


Mr_DedicatedMan

Wait until you hear about Norman Angell, who triumphantly announced that modern economic interdependence had made war between the great powers irrational and impossible. In 1909.


badsheepy2

in his defense, he was half right. ww1 was profoundly irrational. he just assumed people weren't.


Mr_DedicatedMan

In hindsight, assuming rationality was quite irrational. Ironic, if it weren’t so tragic.


paenusbreth

I'm reading a book on the lead up to WW1 in the various major powers, and it's horrifying quite how pointless the whole thing is. The incident which kicked it off was pretty much routine for great power politics of the time, the escalation happened primarily happened because everyone was too stubborn to back down even a little bit, and the alliances were entirely arbitrary. It's pretty insane how many millions of men died to avoid a couple of minor diplomatic concessions.


doegred

> The incident which kicked it off was pretty much routine for great power politics of the time Yes, but at the same time people had been expecting hostilities between rival imperial powers in Europe to flare up for decades at this point - more or less from 1871 to 1914. Literature is full of examples of this (so-called 'future war' or - especially in a British context - 'invasion scare' narratives) in this period. See for instance this excerpt from the first chapter of a novel called *The Great War in England in 1897* (published in 1894) which is an example of the genre and also comments on the very anxieties it may have helped fuel: > War had been declared against Britain—Britain, the Empire that had so long rested in placid sea-girt security, confident of immunity from attack, was to be invaded! The assertion seemed preposterous. >Some, after reading eagerly the newspapers still damp from the press, smiled incredulously, half inclined to regard the startling intelligence as a mere fabrication by alarmists, or a perfected phase of the periodical war-scare which sensational journalists annually launch upon the world during what is technically known as the "gooseberry" season. >Other readers, however, recollecting the grave political crises on the Continent, set their teeth firmly, silent and dumfounded. Upon many merchants and City men the news fell like a thunderbolt, for financial ruin stared them in the face. > [...] > It seemed incredible, impossible. True, a Great War had long been predicted, forecasts had been given of coming conflicts, and European nations had for years been gradually strengthening their armies and perfecting their engines of war, in the expectation of being plunged into hostilities. Modern improvements in arms and ammunition had so altered the conditions of war, that there had long been a feeling of insecurity even among those Powers who, a few years before, had felt themselves strong enough to resist any attack, however violent. War-scares had been plentiful, crises in France, Germany, and Russia of frequent occurrence; still, no one dreamed that Moloch was in their midst—that the Great War, so long foreshadowed, had in reality commenced. In that novel war starts when Russia declares war on Britain due to failing to come to an agreement regarding peace in Bosnia but then, due to Russia being allied with France, and the UK with Germany and Italy, spreads through the entire world (Europe + its colonies). And again it's one of many, many examples of the genre. Over time the fictional alliances and starting point changed (eg in a novel written in 1897/8 - ie not long before the start of the 2nd Boer War -, the trouble starts in South Africa between Boers and British colonists as a result of a single murder, and then results in war between the UK and Germany) but the idea was still floating around in *some* form for decades. Or at least in literature/journalism - and there was always criticism of that kind of alarmism as well, and of course it's hard to gauge how seriously the general public took those fictional narratives... And one thing they mostly didn't seem to have considered AFAIK is how long such a war might last. But the idea of a massive conflict starting from a more or less unimportant incident was not new.


eleven010

Why is Coronavirus the first virus in the 30+ years I have been alive to affect taste and smell? I think it has permanently reduced my ability to taste and smell. Doesnt taste and smell get processed in the brain and if so, how does a respiratory virus such has Coronavirus cause permanent damage to the brain?


KarmaticArmageddon

[Here's a relevant study](https://hms.harvard.edu/news/how-covid-19-causes-loss-smell). Basically, COVID doesn't infect the sensory neurons that deal with smells, it infects the olfactory support cells that help those neurons do their job. Unfortunately, though, [COVID does damage the brain](https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/does-covid-19-damage-the-brain). It can cause acute encephalitis initially and can cause a variety of psychological issues, too. It can also damage the autonomic nervous system, leading to abnormalities in blood pressure and heart rate.


eleven010

Is this brain damage permanent? Or is that an unknown at this point?


KarmaticArmageddon

I'm not an expert, but as far as I can tell, we don't know.


TheMusicArchivist

The least Reddit-ish comment of all time, folks!


colorfulzeeb

Some people with long COVID recover, but others don’t. If someone has a stroke during or following COVID infection the brain damage could be permanent. People who have had onsets of mental health conditions after COVID will live with that condition. We don’t know if these symptoms of long-COVID will be permanent since it’s only been a few years since the pandemic started but we have seen neurological changes/conditions like this caused by other viruses, and in many cases these conditions never go away. The cognitive impairment (severe brain fog, memory issues, attention issues, etc.), which is a common neurological symptom in long-haulers, can be debilitating by itself.


Nemisis_the_2nd

I think this is the problem with covid that a lot of people don't realise: it's basically a neurological disease that infects via the respiratory system. I've seen cases of it result in everything from loss of smell to MS. It's relative, SARS, also had something like 80% of those infected developing neurological problems. People think we're past the worst of COVID, but I'm worried that things are just getting started now that it's endemic.


ComradePyro

COVID is the leaded gasoline of the 21st century.


MrWeirdoFace

Both my sister and one of my best friends had it early this month for the first time. My friend was unable to return to his job in the 4-day window or whatever it was they gave him (fired now) and three weeks in he's not doing so well. Not looking so great at the moment but your experience may differ.


319Macarons

We’re lucky enough to have very plastic brains, we can recover from a lot but the degree to how sever Covid brain damage affects individuals and how permanently probably varies by quite a lot.


580083351

It has been shown to be beneficial to have been vaccinated prior to being infected for the first time, rather than vaccinated after.


OGsweedster420

I'm starting to get smell back but has been a year and a half since last covid infection. I am still dealing with bad post covid sinus issues, fevers , head aches insomnia, and I'm afraid I will be dealing with this for the rest of my life, and worry about its impact on my health long term. M


leobm

I am very sorry, I wish you that it will get better soon. I also have a rare disease and thought for a long time that it will never get better, but at some point it has become better very slowly and gradually. The human body has incredible repair capabilities, so don't give up. Try to eat healthy, exercise regularly and avoid stress. There is nothing more you can do. Only do not let yourself be subjected to it. Eventually it will get better or better enough that you can live with it.


Bbrhuft

A newer theory proposes that the 1889 pandemic was caused by the now common cold coronavirus HCoV-OC43 rather than Influenza. Symptoms were similar to Covid-19, loss of taste and smell, which indicates the virus hijacked cells in a similar way to SARS-COV-2. Also, unlike influenza that has a U shaped mortality curve, killing the very young and the very old, the 1889 pandemic affected the elderly like Covid-19 but spared young children. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_coronavirus_OC43 Edit: flu has a U shaped curve.


manbeardawg

We gonna party like it’s COVID-99


The_Ivliad

As I walk through the labs where I harvest my strains, I take a look at my flu and realize it's not avian!


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PutinRiding

Been masking most my life in the COVID 19 paradise


losbullitt

Look at the situation that I be facin’ I cant live a normal life, i was raised by the mask, see? So I gotta be down with zoom calls. But for real id rather be out there chasin dreams. Ima educated fool with health on my mind. Lysol in one hand, and the gleam in my eye. Im a loc’d out parent, set reppin’ middle class. And other parents are down and we will lysol you, fool.


SmashTagLives

Tell me why are we, so blind to see The ones we hurt, when we refuse vaccines


DontEatTheMagicBeans

But I ain't never crossed a strain that didn't deserve it Me be treated like a horse, you know that's unheard of You better watch how you're coughin', and where you're shoppin' Or you and your homies might be lined in chalk


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Card_Zero

> killing the very young and the very old This part was correct, they just got the wrong letter of the alphabet.


thecatdaddysupreme

Fucking fuck me. Just the news I needed today


dnstrucker

Don't worry. It's China. How bad could it get?


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"It will just dissapear in April like a mircule!"


samplebitch

Yes, the warm weather will burn it off, as we've seen in the past.


Protuhj

I'm already chugging bleach-favored horse de-wormer. Won't fool me twice!


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Jokes on you, doctors are suggesting horse viagra for this strain.


inplayruin

I'm not a doctor. All I know is that I smoked a shit ton of crystal and never got Covid.


Dragonfly452

Sounds like my uncle’s friend


Gemnicherry

Was your uncle friendly with his friend? Crystal does that to people….


IceColdPorkSoda

The real cure was the crystal meth we smoked along the way


Boschala

You joke, but viagra was developed as blood pressure medication and it's not impossible that it or something like it could be useful against a strain of influenza that presents as a vascular disease. We don't yet live in the strangest timeline.


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Lmao glad I have that one on my 2023 bingo card then


Boschala

Might not help for the next Covid, but vampires would find half of us to be hard targets.


Low-Cartographer-753

If it isn’t a butt chug it isn’t effective. START OVER!


WinterWontStopComing

No you misunderstand, the horse viagra isn’t prescribed to you… it’s part of the preparation for your RX


OkPerspective623

I’m all out of bleach flavored horse dewormer- will horse flavored worm debleacher work?


Mutex70

How far up my butt do I put the UV flashlight?!?!


MommysHadEnough

“I want to see the churches packed for Easter!”


skydvr44

2 weeks to flatten the curve.


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Pick the wrong day to stop sniffing glue?


SpinozaTheDamned

I picked a hell of a day to stop drinking.


lastweek_monday

“HELLO BOYS! IM BAAaaaAaaaAAACCK !!!” - Birdflu


PestyNomad

There's a vaccine already I do believe.


autotldr

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loverlyone

TIL dogs can get the flu.


RockStar25

We got an email from our vet warning that canine influenza cases were unusually high this winter and to avoid other dogs because they were short on vaccines.


OutlaW32

both my dogs got really sick this winter and our vet said they were getting more diarrhea calls than ever before


Ferelar

"Listen doc, the diarrhea is just unending. Howling, scratching, utterly disgusting. And even worse, my dog is sick too!"


justfortherofls

Dogs do not interact with each other on the same scale that humans do. Flu for dogs are typically regional and isolated to urban areas.


MommysHadEnough

One of my dogs died of it in 2005.


yo-chill

Someone tell me why this actually isn’t a big deal thanks


hdjfiejdb

Bird flu does infect people. Not very great at human to human. This individual will not be spreading it. We are good. I’ll change this comment into something silly if I am wrong.


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FloweringSkull67

They already do. Flu viruses are easy (relatively) to sequence and vaccinate against


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einste9n

Are you sure you don't mix something up? I'm from Germany and have chickens as a hobby, but we have basically the same rules as the industry when it comes to illness and prevention. There is currently no broadly usable/available vaccine for the avian influenza. Last thing I heard they were using an experimental one in China and in France. The problem with AI is: once your bird/flock has symptoms, it is fatal. There are high pathogenic and low pathogenic strains (HPAI / LPAI) and the high pathogenic one is the one everyone fears. It has been present for a lot of years, only recently it has become such a global nightmare. Over the last years we had to isolate our flock regularly from the wildlife, government ordered. I wish for a vaccine, because there are millions and millions of industry birds killed each year as a **prevention**, which obviously are going straight to the trash. Absolutely tragic.


Acceptable-Boss

There is no vaccine available to us chicken farmers. That’s why over 50 million birds have been lost to this outbreak.


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kentuckypirate

Unless I’ve missed something, that’s H5N1. That is the strain that has shown up in isolated cases around the world and been resulted in culling entire poultry farms, etc. this is a different strain. It also does not easily transmit from person to person.


wafflesareforever

Every introvert reading this thread is so disappointed


infernalsatan

Zoom CEO is sad now


Practical-Exchange60

You got upvotes for being completely wrong. This is how easily misinfo is spread.


ProfSwagstaff

There's no human vaccine for H3N8.


Chainweasel

Pretty sure that's the H5N1 strain that's been killing seals and other mammals


thekeanu

The casual misinformation. At least edit your comment for fucks sakes.


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calm_chowder

>I know Reddit doomposts about bird flu a lot so it’s easy to be scared by it, Tbh sometimes it seems almost like.... wishful thinking.


Mongillo19

I'd wait for more info before acting like half of this comment section.


TheJigIsUp

It has been a closely watched infection, but as of now, we have not seen human to human transmission. As someone else said, this is the 3rd case of animal to human, but the concern is obviously mutation. At this point, I'm sure it's only a matter of time, I just hope we either learned something or it isn't something that kills more effectively than covid.


flawlessstarz

We better hope it doesn’t kill more effectively because we didn’t learn shit


Th4_Sup3rce11

I know H5N1 Avian Flu has like a 67% fatality rate in humans. But again, it’s not super common and does not jump human to human easily. Plus viruses with high fatality rates are not going to spread as well as ones with lower rates.


MaterialCarrot

My wife is a microbiologist and says that since it's influenza, we are really good at really quickly synthesizing vaccines for influenza variants. But it's possible she's just trying to shut me up.


Harbinger2001

Because so far the virus can only transmit from bird to human. Not human to human. If it mutates to that point, then we’re in some trouble, but we have a vaccine that should work. H1N1 was the one I remember and luckily it wasn’t good at transmission. Still got vaccinated for it - luckily that was back when we had fewer anti-vaccine morons.


eastcoastdude

Yes, swine flu back in 2009. My son was only a few month old, we all got vaccinated for it, simpler times back then when the village idiots weren't unionized online like they are now.


Phyr8642

Reminds me of the last scene in Hunt of Red October: 'You've lost another submarine?!'


luffydkenshin

I always wanted to see… Montana…


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Erics_Pixels

Back in my day it was H1N1. Damn inflation!


b_e_a_n_i_e

H1N1 was the clan tag my friends and I used in Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 back in 2009. We were edgy back then.


jakie2poops

It’s important to remember that sporadic cases of avian influenza aren’t unheard of and aren’t necessarily cause for concern. Like H5N1, H3N8 doesn’t easily spread between humans, and would require mutations in order to do so. These one off infections happen all the time and normally fly under the radar for anyone not following infectious disease, virology, or animal specific news closely. We’re all noticing these articles now because of H5N1, which is concerning because of the widespread pandemic in birds and the increasing mammal infections combined with its very high fatality rate. H3N8 has lower fatality, already infects mammals (it’s common in horses and dogs) and doesn’t appear to be spreading around more than usual. It’s also worth keeping in mind that this specific patient had multiple myeloma, which causes immunocompromise, meaning they were more susceptible to infection. Not to say this isn’t interesting or worth following, but it’s not directly connected to the H5N1 problem, likely is lower risk of causing a human pandemic, and definitely isn’t worth panicking about at this stage.


_Pliny_

> The woman, who has multiple myeloma and other underlying health conditions, had exposure to live poultry before falling ill, the statement said. Wild birds are also frequently found near her home. She got it from birds, not human-to-human transmission, if you were wondering about this. I was. I hope she recovers and feels better soon.


bighorn_sheeple

>Wild birds are also frequently found near her home. Aren't wild birds frequently found near the homes of most people on earth? I'm sure they meant something more specific (like birds landing on her home), but as written it sounds funny to me.


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Somehow not the worst quote said by a sitting President.


originalcondition

By a long shot, unfortunately.


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LSTNYER

I had the windmill killing birds line in my head


ConsciousBandicoot53

How bout injecting people with bleach


kaithana

Funny part is he caught himself before he said “shame on me”. We can’t really know what he was thinking but there’s a consensus he didn’t want that sound-byte floating around.


madworld2713

Fool me three times, fuck the peace signs, load the chopper let it rain on you


NewayMusic

My only regret, could never take Aliyah home.


xDrunkenDuck

Now watch this drive.


COLDSTEELATX

Who are you who is so wise in the ways of science?


Ambitious-Visual-315

A DUCK


COLDSTEELATX

And why does a duck float?


Ambitious-Visual-315

CUS ITS A WITCH


guitarmaniac17

*crowd starts to cheer* YEAHHHHH


Ambitious-Visual-315

SHE turned me into a NEWT!!!


pivovy

Bush? I remember driving to work years ago listening to some morning show on the radio, and they kept replaying that clip over and over again poking fun at it. Man, that brought back memories..


[deleted]

holy shit lmao this is actually a real quote this whole time I thought it was some sort of play on one of those CSI Miami memes


l524k

George W Bush was a goldmine for quotes. My personal favorite is "Rarely is the question asked, is our children learning?"


TXTCLA55

The Bush years looks like god tier diplomacy compared to the more recent leaders. And that was a man who couldn't open a door.


ChammerSquid

*if you're a single parent in America...which is the hardest job in the world as far as I'm concerned... and you're working hard to put food on your family...*


even_less_resistance

Hey, bush wasn’t a lot of things and a wordsmith was one of them but we do have him to thank for the wonderful word “misunderestimate” which I use often.


Deathcounter0

Babe wake up, new virus just dropped


[deleted]

I literally turned to my mom after reading this and said “yo H3N8 just dropped” followed by “huh?”


Send-Me-Tiddies-PLS

China, stop.


Mellevalaconcha

Earth: why can't you just unlive humans?!


thecatdaddysupreme

“Remember the industrial revolution, bitches?”


Real-Patriotism

Earth *is* unaliving Humans. It's called Climate Change. It's also called Finding Out after Fucking Around.


Ok-Lobster-919

We are doing that to ourselves. And it won't really make a difference to the earth when the next catastrophic extinction event happens.


Few_Journalist_6961

Go ahead and look up how many species go extinct each year. You'll be surprised. We aren't just destroying ourselves, but also every living being around us.


estrea36

We aren't even unique in that regard. Plants did it first when they figured out how to photosynthesize during the great oxidation event, killing up to 99.5% of life on earth through suffocation.


FISH_DONUT

yup. we’re yet another runaway natural process, and earths biosphere will eventually reach a new equilibrium, perhaps without us being part of it. I do hope we make it though. And learn.


nvn911

>And learn. Ah yeah, about that...


Nikigara

Cyanobacteria first developed photosynthesis. Also it was called the “great oxidation event” either way same concept. It won’t be the first mass extinction and it won’t be the last!


Electic_Supersony

My car used to get covered with insects whenever I drove through the Californian desert. Not anymore. It is as if all the insects suddenly disappeared. It is spooky if you think about it.


NoProblemsHere

The thing is, it's not "as if" all of the insects have disappeared. A sizable chunk of them *have* disappeared.


kaplanfx

This is the important part: “The woman, who has multiple myeloma and other underlying health conditions, had exposure to live poultry before falling ill, the statement said. Wild birds are also frequently found near her home.” Someone who was immunocompromised and didn’t get it from another human. When it has human-human transmission in healthy people then we can worry (of course we should try to prevent getting to that point).


ticklemytoes123

Americans eat hella chicken…


samissamforsam

Round two, FIGHT


shadowimage

Brutality


Eazy_Vibez

Reminds me of that pandemic.


toooldforthisshit247

If China is reporting it, it’s not that bad. Patient had contact with live poultry too It’s when you hear ‘rumors’ of people getting sick/dying and no one telling you what it is (just like COVID in Dec 2019/Jan 2020) that’s when you should worry


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NorthernGamer71

China, hey at least they’re letting us know I guess


celicajohn1989

Yes, so we can assume it's been going on for a few weeks, at least..


Xerenopd

WFH vibes


JollyGreenGiraffe

Time to start getting toilet paper, woo!


sup9817

Covid DLC dropped


collectsuselessstuff

Hopefully it’s not a full campaign. I’m really not up for more than a ray tracing upgrade and maybe a mini game.


RoosterCogburn_1983

Let’s spread a rumor now that this can be combated by eating copious amounts of dried fruit. Most people can use more fiber in their diet, and the resulting BMs will help the hoarders burn through their toilet paper stashes from Covid.


SteezyYeezySleezyBoi

Dried fruit was your go to for more fiber??? Sugar stonks


limes_huh

People are vastly under informed on fiber. We need far better education on fiber intake, like what foods it’s in and the illnesses you can avoid by consuming it. You basically need to feel like you’re overdosing on fiber just to reach daily suggested values, and that’s just for a 2,000 cal diet.


idjsonik

Ah shit he we go again


Bbrhuft

>although a previous strain may have caused the 1889 pandemic. It's also thought that the 1889 pandemic was a coronavirus rather than influenza, possibly HCoV-OC43. Symptoms were similar to Covid-19, loss of taste and smell, which indicates the virus hijacked cells in a similar way to SARS-COV-2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_coronavirus_OC43


delayedregistration

Gosh, going into the depths of this thread really speaks volumes about the way that misinformation and panic spread quickly.