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PinochetIsMyHero 11 points ago +11 / -0

Meh. Stop panicking.

  1. This bird flu is difficult for humans to catch, and typically only nails a few poultry farmers who are in direct, frequent contact (not that sort, you pervert) with infected chickens.

  2. You can only die once anyway.

Seriously, this happens every few years and it's always just a huge pain in the ass for China. It'll be worse this time because they're already running out of pigs thanks to ASF, and now their poultry flocks are going to get killed off.

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Onplanet 4 points ago +4 / -0

Seriously stop with these ALL CAPS TITLES PANIC!111!!

This is just more hysterical garbage. You think they don't know about our forums on here? Of course they'd try to use them to spread it by creating a counter narrative that it's being "covered up" even though it's being reported literally everywhere.

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Isaiah53 2 points ago +2 / -0

Still, they shouldn't have forced Chinese Christians to change the Bible, to put the Chicom State above God;

“For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:

“And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.” (Rev. 22:18–19.)

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jasper_db1 9 points ago +10 / -1

WTF is wrong with China? SARS, H1N1, Corona, and now H5N1? Is this what happens when a 3rd world country suddenly gets rich?

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MottoSucko 8 points ago +9 / -1

no that's Corona... :)

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flashersenpai 1 point ago +1 / -0

Poor sanitation and hygiene. People still use "traditional chinese medicine" over there aka stone age homeopathic nonsense.

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Antenna 0 points ago +1 / -1

It's what happens when Communism needs to cull the herd.

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TheNakedAmbassador 7 points ago +7 / -0

I feel like the media are downplaying it - I've only seen a blurb here and there with updated numbers of Americans infected. I am suspicious that it is much worse than they are letting on.

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ProudAmerican 6 points ago +6 / -0

If this strain of Coronavirus was bio engineered, the technology behind splicing and binding has become so good that we wouldn’t be able to detect it. Natural mutations of this virus are far more likely, but we can’t put it past manipulation either. Check out CRISPR Cas9 if you want to see how scientists are using cluster repeats within RNA to alter viruses and bacterias.

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Thiswillbeintheexam 2 points ago +3 / -1

Of course the media is downplaying it. They believe in "responsible reporting" when it suits their agenda. Triggering a mass panic and risking societal breakdown that would very likely result in them being dragged out into the street and hanged is the last thing they want. Hence the Keep Calm and Carry On and Bare Minimum reporting going on in the MSM.

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Skyrison 2 points ago +2 / -0

i also see that. this isn't being NEARLY AS HYPED like all the other doom things were. if anything, it's being played DOWN because they dont want people to panic.

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V_exodus 6 points ago +7 / -1

That labs create dangerous illnesses while not at the same time developing a cure for it is insanity anyway. Aliens look at Earth and say wow humans are really fkn reckless. But this is also the reason I am skeptical about this whole scenario. I smell bullshit involved.

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MottoSucko 3 points ago +3 / -0

or really smart, it's the Golden Path that they spoke about in Dune... OR just complete incompetence of a super state too large to manage the details

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Lovethycountry 1 point ago +1 / -0

WTF China! Chill the fuck out!

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42069blazeiteetlaid 1 point ago +1 / -0

H5N1 is very hard for a human to catch... but for those that do contract it, mortality is around 60%. Ouch.

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toucrnd 1 point ago +1 / -0
  • A "highly pathogenic" strain of the H5N1 avian flu has been reported in China's Hunan province, China's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said.

  • 4,500 chickens died on the farm where the outbreak occurred.

  • The government culled nearly 18,000 chickens as a result of the outbreak.

  • Whether a strain of avian flu is deemed "highly pathogenic" relates to its ability to kill chickens.

  • The World Health Organization says that while human cases of H5N1 can occur, it "does not infect humans easily."

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BidenSmellsKids 1 point ago +2 / -1

No it can't, daily mail is just click bait garbage.

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BigDizzle907 1 point ago +1 / -0

Let's hope it's that and not the wu flu

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V_exodus 1 point ago +1 / -0

Humbug.

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V_exodus 1 point ago +1 / -0

Sorry but the Chinese are teally shitty about a lot of things and it's biting them in the ass. Karma.

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Sunje64 1 point ago +1 / -0

Meh. I remember when bird flu went around a few years ago and it was supposed to be the next pandemic. It fizzled out.