• Chainweasel@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Let’s see here, RFK wants to ban vaccines and promote raw milk.
    There is currently a bird flu epidemic in dairy cattle from bird droppings getting into the feed.
    Consuming raw milk is one of the few ways humans can become infected with bird flu.
    I’m sure this will be fine and the virus won’t mutate to allow for human to human transfer, it if it does luckily it only has a 56% mortality rate compared to the Covid morality rate of ~4% during its peak.

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      5 hours ago

      In the US, right now, the dairy farms where they let the cats drink raw milk saw half their cats die.

      This is an actual thing.

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        37 minutes ago

        [preface and disclaimer: I’m remembering off the top of my head something I read over 30 years ago, details may not be exactly correct]

        Not sure whether you remember the chapter of Sideways Stories from Wayside School, by Louis Sachar, in which there was a student who nobody liked, who was a real asshole and wore a stinky raincoat. The kids kept trying to take off his raincoat, but underneath was another, stinkier raincoat, just layers and layers of progressively stinky raincoats, and with every raincoat removed, the kid just became a bigger asshole and his laugh louder and more high-pitched.

        At the very end, he turned out to be a dead rat in a pile of stinky raincoats.

        That’s what the whole administration is shaping up to be. Except we knew this was coming and allowed it to happen, so I guess that, ultimately, we are the dead rat.

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        6 hours ago

        True, but on the minus side, dumb people actively seeking out the infected milk would artificially increase the instances and thus the spread.

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          36 minutes ago

          True, but on the minus side, dumb people actively seeking out the infected milk would artificially increase the instances and thus the spread.

          I’m sorry I only see benefits here.

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          2 hours ago

          I don’t care. Do you?

          They voted for this, they can deal with the consequences.

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            34 minutes ago

            Normally I’d say that I don’t want this to happen to a bunch of people who don’t deserve it, but drinking raw milk is preventable and not contagious, and therefore entirely self-contained, right? So yeah, sow those seeds, guys, I’m totally owned.

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          6 hours ago

          But on the plus side, dumb people actively infect themselves and get removed from the gene pool.

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            But on the minus side, other people don’t have the choice to completely avoid those dumb people and thus minimize their risk of infection.

            If they did, covid wouldn’t have been a tenth as bad as it was/is.