Alex Tabarrok remains stunned at how poorly we are responding to the threat from H5N1:
Our poor response to COVID was regrettable but perhaps understandable given the US hadn’t faced a major pandemic in decades. Having been through COVID, however, you would think that we would be primed. But no. Instead of acting aggressively to stop the spread in cows we took a gamble that avian flu would fizzle out. It didn’t.
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The case fatality rate for cows appears to be low but significant, perhaps 2%. A small number of pigs have also been infected. On the other hand, over 100 million chickens, turkeys and ducks have been killed or culled.
There have now been 66 cases in humans in the US. Moreover, the CDC reports that in at least one case the virus appears to have evolved within its human host to become more infectious. We don’t know that for sure but it’s not good news. Recall that in theory a single mutation will make the virus much more capable of infecting humans.
When I wrote on December 1 that A Bird Flu Pandemic Would Be One of the Most Foreseeable Catastrophes in History, Manifold Markets was predicting a 9% probability of greater than 1 million US human cases in 2025. Today the prediction is at 20%.
We’re responding poorly to the threat? Gee, maybe if the governments of the world hadn’t f’d up the COVID thing by literally becoming fascist, we might be willing to extend a little trust.
I’m sorry. Nobody is going to take lockdowns or masking again. Well, okay. Portland and LA County. But the huge majority of the US is done with the pandemic BS.
Our elites have only themselves to blame.
As if “we” are not funding a massive government bureaucracy that was intended for this purpose, which has focused itself on global warming and DEI. Probably some department is making sure that no experiments with ivermectin are allowed.
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I remain stunned at how poorly Frenchmen are responding to the threat from the French government. Our failure to guillotine Macron was regrettable but perhaps understandable given that France hadn’t mobilized a major peasant revolt in decades. Having been through 1789, however, you would think that we would be primed. But no. Instead of acting aggressively to stop the spread of sexual deviants in office, we took a gamble that Macron would autoerotically asphyxiate himself to death. He didn’t.
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Gaikokumaniakku said, “I remain stunned at how poorly Frenchmen are responding to the threat from the French government.”
This is true in every white and whitish country the world over. The tree of liberty cannot be watered while USG stabilizes terroristic occupational regimes from afar in service to “national security” (a.k.a. Corporate America). Sad!