• monotremata@lemmy.ca
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      2 months ago

      There will probably be some slant in that direction, but there’ll be a much bigger slant towards killing the elderly, the immunocompromised, those who can’t afford medical care and time off, etc. As usual.

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        As terrible as it feels to say with the way elderly people vote they more often than not fall into the nazi camp. I know my gandad does with fox constantly playing.

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      Unfortunately, it’s the rich that are feeding them the garbage that’s infested their minds. I don’t think there’s any saving the masses from the delusion they’re slobbering up, but as long as the buffet keeps getting restocked, the pigs will keep fattening up for the slaughter.

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        being able to be vegan/vegetarian is a privilege. it’s expensive as hell for starters. you can eat meat and still want change in the meat industry.

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          Not to mention there are people who physically have to eat meat. I have anemia due to stage 4 endometriosis. I can’t take iron supplements so have to eat meat or I get very sick.

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        I doubt it will they all have doomsday bunkers. I do hope that they are forced to cower in them for the rest of their days though……because guillotine

  • StinkyFingerItchyBum@lemmy.ca
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    Scientists: we have some good news and some bad news on the pandemic front.

    Public: Gimme the good news first.

    Scientists: We’re going to solve the housing crisis really quickly.

    X/

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      Anecdote: I’m pretty sure lots of diseased chickens are being dumped without being reported because carnists don’t want to cull their flock. I literally found several trashbags of sickly dead chickens spread around a field (by coyotes probably) where I run.

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    Well that drinking raw milk is paying off, congrats. Someone should strap RFK Jr to a chair and make him drink gallons of infected raw milk.

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      It’s entirely avoidable, if only Trump would have actually learned something from his first term and actually funded research and prevention teams. Sadly, he only has the foresight to see how cutting those programs saves the US Govt. a penny now, and not the wisdom to see how that panny would have been money well spent if it prevented us from having to spend thousands on recovery efforts.

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        Trump would have actually learned something

        That’s physically impossible at this point.

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        But they made so much money stealing PPE last time! Probably some good extortion money, too.

        Huge bonus if they get to hold a cure over people’s heads, too.

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      do we really need Trump + Pandemic again

      If there were any justice in the universe, he would have died from the virus he unleashed on the world

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        He actually does have one positive trait: he’s open to the idea of psychedelics for the treatment of mental health disorders. Past administrations have had way too much love for the Nixon-era “War on Drugs” DEA schedule, which treats magic mushrooms as more dangerous than fentanyl. It doesn’t make up for all the other damage he’s doing, and even this one thing he probably won’t handle in an appropriate way, since he’s also, y’know, incompetent. But it’s conceivable that this one thing could move in a good direction despite his leadership.

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          Great point and something that I support. Psychedelics have been known to provide psychological therapy for a while and I’ll take any gains in that area.

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    There isn’t going to be another pandemic this soon after COVID. Pandemics happen about every 100 years. Pretty much everything happens in cycles and is predictable based on historical patterns. There isn’t going to be another pandemic this soon after COVID.

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    I don’t wanna get my hopes up so fear-mongering aside, how actually likely is any of this?

    Because I keep remembering that humans are notoriously bad at future prediction.

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      Surely you aren’t expecting a calculated probability between 0% and 100%. The most useful thing the scientists can do for us here is to prepare for the worse (while hoping for the best), and that is done by carefully selecting the recommendations they chose to be published in the article.