Keith Poulsenâs jaw dropped when farmers showed him images on their cellphones at the World Dairy Expo in Wisconsin in October. A livestock veterinarian at the University of Wisconsin, Poulsen had seen sick cows before, with their noses dripping and udders slack.
Just in time for a Trump Presidency. This is going to go swimmingly. Hold on to your tits folks, shitâs about to get real.
It would be kind of funny if two âonce in a centuryâ pandemic happened right during both of Trumpâs terms.
Are you leaving the bathroom with swampass or drying your ass with a towel?
As long as thereâs a good, available vaccine, IDGAF. Iâll make sure my family gets quadruply vaccinated, and wait for idiots that reject vaccines to start beefing it.
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/872/842/1c4.png
I will be sad for old folks, babies, people who are pregnant, and the immunocompromised though. We just need to learn this lesson sooner rather than later, before itâs something completely fucked up like nipah virus, which will fuck our shit up if we donât have a damn good vaccine and containment protocols in place.
I love how naively you think that youâll be able to get your hands on a vaccine in the USâŚ
If youâre not in the US, lucky for you!
Even if you get vaccines, with an entire continent being absolutely ravaged, you wonât be safe, no matter how far you live. We live in an interconnected world, and do a lot of travel.
Biden is still President though. It shows that the CDC and FDA have been captured so thoroughly by corporate interests theyâre just not fit for purpose any more. Thatâs not just Trumpâs fault, itâs decades of chipping away at those agencies by Republicans and corporate Dems.
Stuff like this happens. They are monitoring it. Actions unbeknownst to us are happening. If we get rid of the FDA and CDC, what do you think replaces it? You trust the Cabinet of Trump-supporting billionaires to âthink of the peopleâ when coming up with a replacement?
Itâs not like Trump would have done anything different than Biden, given Trumpâs history with COVID-19.
I donât trust Trump or his cronies to do anything that doesnât benefit them and their wallets.
Iâm not saying get rid of them, Iâm saying strengthen them so they can stand up to corporate interests. I also donât understand how you could read my post as somehow an endorsement for Trump. Of course heâs going to make things worse, itâs what Republicans do.
The dynamic has been a ratchet effect since FDR died: Republicans roll back the New Deal, and Democrats just stop the rolling back while theyâre in power without managing to reinstate anything because enough of them are also beholden to campaign money.
âExperts say they have lost faith in the governmentâs ability to contain the outbreak.â
Who should have been isolating sick cows from the rest of any given herd? Most of the yahoos with these sick herds welcomed the idea of their Holy Cheeto dismantling âthâ gubmint.â So whose fault is it again?
If it makes you feel better, the CAFOs are putting most of them out of business.
I wish this was an âAnimals as leadersâ reference, but it refers to âconcentrated animal feeding operationsââŚ
Which I learnt because of Animals as Leaders.
What do you think, timeline feels similar. What the r value?
Shut down around at Paddyâs. I could use another vacation. Fuck that year was awesome.
Yeah but this time there wonât be any unemployment money and no one will work from home.
RFK Jr. is going to be heading the Dept. of Health and Human ServicesâŚwhich establishes national vaccine rollout programs. Heâs an anti-vaxxer. He will do everything in his power to see that any vaccine programs are extremely difficult to rollout if not impossible to establish. Your best bet will likely be full masks and isolation (i.e. 2020 again).
This is crazy too, because as a falconer RFK should be extremely familiar with bird flu. Weâve been dealing with it for years and thereâs a story of someoneâs falcon or hawk dying from it semi-often. If heâs part of a club heâll get HPAI reports even. I went to the national meet a few weeks ago and they separate birds that chase ducks and birds that donât (quarantine zones).
Although I guess itâs possible to know something exists and deny that it has a solution. So dumb.
Oh no! If only there was something we could have done!!!
