• TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 days ago

    P sure bird flu is less severe than your bog standard flu in humans, it’s major risk is the damage to the food infrastructure.

    That is to say, I get what you’re getting at, but, thankfully, the risk of another global pandemic with the scope and damage like with COVID-19 is incredibly low, or at least that’s what my buddies in the medical field are saying.

    Edit: well dang it might be more dangerous than I was led to believe

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      5 days ago

      your buddies are absolutely divorced from reality. if they’re epidemiologists they should quit their jobs

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        5 days ago

        I’m thinking now that particular line may have been dripping with their personal brand of deadpan sarcasm and I missed this by hearing it second hand.

        This has been a great example of learning about something by being wrong about it on the internet, though

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          Thank goodness, I hope you’re right. I have family working at various licensing boards, and I’ve been hearing of too many medical professionals completely ignoring their microbiology or ethics classes and peddling conspiracy nonsense.