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If (and I emphasise IF) H5N1 led to a severe pandemic in humans, the assumption that it would play out like covid is a dangerous one. Covid (pre-vaccine) posed
by rgmerk 2y ago
If (and I emphasise IF) H5N1 led to a severe pandemic in humans, the assumption that it would play out like covid is a dangerous one.
Covid (pre-vaccine) posed an extremely low risk to children, little risk to young adults, a bit of a risk to the middle-aged, and a lot of risk to the elderly.
The 1918 flu pandemic, by contrast, killed people across the age range, disproportionately including young adults.
Were that to be repeated (and, again, there is no reason to think it will) I suspect that the cure-is-worse-than-the-disease thinking in places like Red America might not be nearly so strong.
- heavyset_go 2y ago> Were that to be repeated (and, again, there is no reason to think it will) I suspect that the cure-is-worse-than-the-disease thinking in places like Red America might not be nearly so strong. I'd like to think that, but I also think history is rife with countless examples of people literally dying on the hill of their own beliefs.
- cjohnson318 2y ago> I suspect that the cure-is-worse-than-the-disease thinking in places like Red America might not be nearly so strong. I think the anti-vaxx crowd will fight back much harder against vaccines in any future event, at least at first. They made it through Covid fine, the ones that are alive, why not the next plandemic? I was just thinking today what a total shit show Covid was between shortages of masks and vaccines, the misinformation online, and the chaotic messaging from the government. It was a circus. I really don't want to go through that again.