Remember the covid pandemic? Of course you do, and like most of the rest of the world, you don't want to see a replay. Worldometer reports there have been 704,753,890 coronavirus cases worldwide with 7,010,681 deaths. In the USA there were 111,820,082 cases accompanied by 1,219,487 deaths. Now a new virus called bird flu is challenging the medical field and so far it is winning. There are 61 reported human cases of H5 bird flu reported in the United States. AlterNet reports...
"Nearly a year into the first outbreak of the bird flu among cattle, the virus shows no sign of slowing. The U.S. government failed to eliminate the virus on dairy farms when it was confined to a handful of states, by quickly identifying infected cows and taking measures to keep their infections from spreading. Now at least 845 herds across 16 states have tested positive."
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"Experts say they have lost faith in the government’s ability to contain the outbreak."
Al Jazeera provides worldwide figures...
So, has the U.S. government dropped the ball on bird flu like Donald Trump did on the coronavirus pandemic during his administration? The Guardian says, "US repeating Covid mistakes with bird flu as spread raises alarm, experts say." Gregg Gonsalves, associate professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health believes the failure of this country to learn from past crises or simply a refusal to do so, could lead to another pandemic of bird flu. This is what is wrong with America. Here's the scenario...
Since the virus was first detected nearly three decades ago in China, about 860
people have become infected in 23 countries, including China, Egypt, Vietnam and Turkiye, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Of those, 463 people died from the virus, giving a huge 52 percent death rate.
"A lack of testing, opaque data, political divides, poor healthcare access and a sense of hubris – all have plagued the Covid response, and now these errors are playing across the bird flu response, Gonsalves said."
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“We have not really done anything to address what’s happening in terms of the onward spread of bird flu across the US – we’re back to the same old mistakes,” he said. “Right now, the imminent risk is low and we haven’t seen human-to-human transmission. But the point is, we don’t wait for that to happen. Right?”
In other words, we were completely caught off guard from Trump to Biden, and it looks as if the current apathy will continue, at least until Trump re-enters the White House. And then, will the Oval Office lunatic respond as he did before during the covid pandemic?...
“We have it [covid pandemic] totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.”
“We pretty much shut it down coming in from China.”
“I think the virus is going to be—it’s going to be fine.”
“The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA… the Stock Market starting to look very good to me!”
There is more of trump's drivel you can see here. The question is what will this maniac say when he is in charge of this country and responsible for your life?
