Posted on 03/16/2022 5:28:10 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Two years ago, we were hit with COVID-19. The national pandemic plan that had been carefully crafted for dealing with such an eventuality was in short order scrapped. Instead of focusing on quarantining sick people, protecting the most vulnerable, and pushing therapeutic or even prophylactic use of drugs like hydroxychloroquine that were cheap and effective we did the unthinkable. We locked down healthy people, mandated the wearing of useless cloth masks, forbade therapeutic treatment, and bet our lives on the effectiveness of radical, experimental “vaccines” that have proven at best useless.
Our response to this pandemic was a complete failure. After decades of supposed preparation for such an eventuality, we were undone by the forces of corporate greed and government overreach. Real science took a back seat to the need to make money and extend the power of bureaucrats and politicians.
All of the misguided COVID-19 pandemic measures are now being scrapped. Despite the desire of government bureaucrats to control every aspect of our lives and Big Pharma’s unquenchable thirst for profit, the COVID-19 theater measures are being dismantled.
Politics has intervened. Midterms are coming, and Americans are heartily sick of being ordered about.
Unfortunately, in the real-world things keep happening. New diseases keep emerging. The necessity to prepare for something potentially much worse than COVID-19 is just as pressing as it ever was.
Right now, a highly pathogenic avian influenza is spreading through poultry populations across the United States. To date, almost three million birds, mostly chickens, and turkeys have died. As of early February, the disease had been identified in 23 poultry farms in 12 states. Since then, it has cropped up in several additional states.
The number of birds infected is immense. Some of the farms where the disease has been identified house tens of thousands of birds. Once the disease has been found amongst a population all the birds at the location have to be destroyed.
The immediate impact of this wave of bird flu will be felt at the supermarket. Consumers already rocked by inflation will find they are paying more for turkey and chicken as well now. But it could get much, much worse.
Bird flu does not commonly cross over to humans. When it does, though, it is deadly. Fifty percent of all the people who have contracted bird flu since 1997 have died. Contrast that with COVID-19, which kills significantly less than 1% of the people it infects.
To date, the saving grace has been that bird flu does not readily spread to humans. To get it you have to spend a lot of time around birds and be in close proximity to them.
The reason H5N1 does not spread easily between people is that it has not acquired the ability to be transmitted by aerosol or in respiratory droplets like the flu or COVID-19. As we have found out in trying to develop vaccines against COVID, however, viruses mutate. In fact, large, industrial farms, housing tens of thousands of birds, provide the ideal environment for infectious diseases to spread and mutate. Scientists advise it may only take a few mutations for the bird flu virus to attain airborne transmission.
The response to COVID has been mainly a power grab by leftists in government. Combatting the pandemic was a secondary consideration. The COVID power grab is not over yet and recovering previous liberties may be difficult. I expect more power grabbing the next time a serious epidemic pops up.
Why would democrats want to get it right? They were able to do massive
Voter ballot mail fraud.
Take care of sick people who request medical help.
Don’t punish healthy people.
It’s not hard.
Ditto
The days of “getting it right” are over. Western civilization has decided to self-destruct. That is what it is hell-bent upon doing.
Not with our inept, incompetent and corrupt government.
Anyone here see the new aqua tourquois unisex vests Wal-Mart is requiring its employees to wear?
“To date, the saving grace has been that bird flu does not readily spread to humans.”
I’m sure that Fauci has a lab somewhere working on that.
Here’s the next crisis warming up in the bullpen right before the midterm elections - isn’t that convenient.
Any legitimate response to an epidemiological event will have to come from individuals who are somehow able to function independent of the government, the healthcare industry, the tech sector, and the scientific community.
RE: The Next Pandemic - Can We Get It Right This Time?
I think if you were able to talk to the leadership in most western countries, you would find that they “Got It Right”.
Through fear, they were able to move from democratic societies to dictatorships in less than a year.
Now these same despots are ginning up fears of atomic war to continue their reign(s).
Depends on what the definition of “right” is. There is a significant number, as Rush used to say, mind numbed robots that still think the last two years was done right.
If the hospitals don’t kill patients for government bounties, it would help.
The bird flu outbreak is the worst since 2015, when nearly 50 million birds, mostly turkeys and egg-laying chickens in the U.S. Midwest, were killed.
https://www.newsmax.com/health/health-news/bird-flu-poultry-farms-outbreak/2022/03/14/id/1061119/
Got a long ways to go to reach 2015 losses. Hopefully AG biosecurity has improved. I know Tyson has made their chicken farmers swap out the chicken houses to a newer design. It's about testing, data and tracking at this point and I would think Tyson and others, being for profit companies, will do better than fedgov did with covid.
It was a plandemic, a bureaucrat-created disaster.
No more plandemics.
Any attempt to impose one will be considered a crime against humanity and will be dealt with accordingly.
The reason H5N1 does not spread easily between people is that it has not acquired the ability to be transmitted by aerosol or in respiratory droplets like the flu or COVID-19. >>> Just wait till Fauci and his crew in China get finished splicing that furin cleavage to the bird flu.
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