• OneTwoThree@mander.xyz
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      3 months ago

      What with how Trump is pulling out of WHO and deregulating the chicken industry, if the avian flu becomes transmissible to humans, it will make COVID-19 look like childsplay. At which point things may get so dire vaccine hesitancy is likely to get you killed, and I’d probably recommend a quick plane trip to Canada to get vaccinated, if that’s even still an option…

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      3 months ago

      I would wait for Canada or an EU approved vaccine.

      Will they require travels to be vaccinated to travel if they’re explicitly traveling there to be vaccinated?

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      3 months ago

      Well, it won’t be Covid-25, it’ll be H5N1 bird flu, which so far has a mortality rate of 50%-60% in people and damn near 100% in birds and 70% in cats. Covid-19 was around 1% and killed millions.

      Even if bird flu is more around 30%, that’s an insane number.

      The bird flu vaccine has mostly been developed and iirc is available in some European countries. We have a vaccine here too but it hasn’t gone to trial.

      If you get that vaccine or not may very well be life or death.