Bird flu? Yeah, they tend to do that.
from dogsoahC@lemm.ee to science_memes@mander.xyz on 25 Jun 15:31
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superduperpirate@lemmy.world on 25 Jun 15:43 next collapse

Let’s just hope Randy Marsh doesn’t go fuck a pangolin again

Isa@feddit.org on 25 Jun 15:57 next collapse

Does petting corpses then, by any chance, start a …

dogsoahC@lemm.ee on 25 Jun 16:04 collapse

Depends. Did the corpse exhibit signs of motility?

Isa@feddit.org on 25 Jun 16:14 collapse

Yes!?

dogsoahC@lemm.ee on 25 Jun 16:25 collapse

Sir, please stay where you are. This is the SCP. Remain calm. You will be harmed. Not. Not be harmed.

Isa@feddit.org on 25 Jun 16:53 collapse

Never heard of the SCP Foundation before … thanks!

*Stands still as a dead corpse*

Iheartcheese@lemmy.world on 25 Jun 16:10 next collapse

Yeah but bird.

Zehzin@lemmy.world on 25 Jun 16:22 next collapse

What wild birds out there letting you pet them?

dogsoahC@lemm.ee on 25 Jun 16:25 next collapse

You got some bread? Then many.

Zehzin@lemmy.world on 25 Jun 16:31 collapse

That’s how you get bit by a duck

veroxii@aussie.zone on 25 Jun 20:46 collapse

How about something more beginner friendly, like a goose or a swan?

mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 26 Jun 10:02 collapse

Fucking goose

Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 25 Jun 17:21 next collapse

It’s fledgling season in the northern hemisphere, and lots of fledglings don’t naturally have a ton of fear of humans. Adult birds might also ‘let’ people pet them after a window strike; they don’t always look like a bloody mess so people don’t always realize how injured they are.

rockerface@lemm.ee on 25 Jun 18:13 next collapse

Usually the ones that let you approach are the sick or injured ones

too_high_for_this@lemmy.world on 25 Jun 20:55 next collapse

The elites don’t want you to know this but the ducks at the park are free you can take them home I have 458 ducks

Cort@lemmy.world on 26 Jun 05:46 collapse

It’s a shame passenger pigeon nets have fallen out of style. I imagine you could catch a lot of ducks with one of those

Tabula_stercore@lemmy.world on 26 Jun 08:54 next collapse

There are no wild birds, because there are no birds at all. You can pet the drone once the battery has run out

Spacehooks@reddthat.com on 26 Jun 13:03 collapse

Seen plenty on YouTube. Like crows.

atro_city@fedia.io on 25 Jun 16:39 next collapse

Isn't the problem more that it's now in cows and people in the US are refusing to stop buying it? Even worse, they are buying it on purpose?

dogsoahC@lemm.ee on 25 Jun 17:19 next collapse

I think there it’s more the overuse of antibiotics to speed up growth. Idk, I just ripped the info from a lecture. xD

flora_explora@beehaw.org on 26 Jun 11:33 collapse

From what I have read about this whole issue, it is certainly much more complex. Yes, antibiotics overuse in factory farming is certainly dangerous in that it can create antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria that we at some point cannot control. There are also huge problems with viruses in factory farming. Generally it isn’t a good idea to have so many animals close together, it gives much more opportunities for diseases to spread. Especially because the animals that are used have an incredibly low gene pool and are maximally stressed I’d assume.

But another opportunity for diseases to jump from animals to humans is wild animals. By destroying more and more natural habitats, people also get in closer contact with wild animals. Like covid 19 most likely spread from wild animals to humans. So, habitat and biodiversity loss are also important risk factors increasing the potential for diseases to cross over to humans.

In my opinion, we should stop keeping animals altogether, as well as plant monocultures and should try to conserve as much habitats as possible.

yesman@lemmy.world on 25 Jun 17:12 next collapse

The problem isn’t that we pet birds, it’s that we eat them. Or more specifically we gather them in huge, unsanitary populations in close contact with humans as they are raised and slaughtered.

This reminds me of how people think AIDS spread from other primates through bestiality, when bushmeat was the correct answer. I guess it’s easier to imagine bestiality than the consequences of carnism.

*not vegan, Just finding it harder and harder to dismiss them.

dogsoahC@lemm.ee on 25 Jun 17:17 next collapse

But domesticated birds are not good carriers of influenza, specifically. Unlime wild birds, they do get sick. Otherwise, I totally agree.

ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca on 25 Jun 22:00 collapse

I guess it’s easier to imagine bestiality than the consequences of carnism.

It’s because we spread HIV within our own population more commonly with sex than cannibalism

hakunawazo@lemmy.world on 25 Jun 18:19 next collapse

Pandemic, you say?

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Johanno@feddit.org on 26 Jun 10:09 collapse

Krieger! Not again!

daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 25 Jun 18:31 next collapse

Thanks! I was looking for the instructions on how to start a pandemic.

lugal@sopuli.xyz on 25 Jun 18:40 next collapse

Are you implying that pandemics are created by the government and spread by governmental drones?

Opisek@lemmy.world on 25 Jun 18:47 collapse

They can be enemy drones, too.

lugal@sopuli.xyz on 25 Jun 19:25 next collapse

When I’m talking about the government, I’m not talking about some shadow government like the Bundesregierung of German or the president of the US. I’m talking about the deep state government

pancakes@sh.itjust.works on 25 Jun 20:22 collapse

Actually, foreign espionage is illegal so it cannot

pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 26 Jun 10:17 next collapse

isn’t influenza the common cold, or am i stupid?

dogsoahC@lemm.ee on 26 Jun 10:21 next collapse

Neither. Influenza is the flu. The common cold is caused by a variety of viruses, iirc.

boogetyboo@aussie.zone on 26 Jun 12:42 collapse

Here you go:

www.cdc.gov/flu/symptoms/coldflu.htm#:~:text=Infl….

You’re not stupid, just incorrectly informed. And smart enough to question that. That makes you waaaay smarter than the average person.

lightnsfw@reddthat.com on 26 Jun 13:54 collapse

That’s why I always give them a gentle smooch on the beak instead.