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Sick with bird flu, not sick from bird flu! In other words, we can blissfully ignore it and anybody who tells us otherwise is just trying to attack us! But sur
by mindslight 2y ago
Sick with bird flu, not sick from bird flu! In other words, we can blissfully ignore it and anybody who tells us otherwise is just trying to attack us!
But sure, it's a valid technical point. The problem is that it dovetails right into people's desire to rationalize why they themselves are unaffected.
- classichasclass 2y agoPutting the "with not of" part aside, in this particular case the child is positive for other respiratory viruses. Given that there wasn't much H5 present and the CDC release says as much, the other respiratory virus(es) found would be a more likely explanation for their illness than H5. This doesn't say anything about the virulence or likelihood of serious illness in H5 generally, just here. We really don't know overall yet.