Two Doctors, Six Others Quarantined Amid Bird Flu Outbreak in Ranchi (www.etvbharat.com)

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[-] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 5 months ago

Well, here it is folks. We all know what happens when the USA is tasked with controling an outbreak. It was nice seeing you in person for the last 18 months. I will now prepare for another lock down.

Can you imagine? If the USA ends up with another deadly epidemic with rampant community spread?

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 20 points 5 months ago

I really can't imagine people tolerating another lockdown, especially given that most people now think that the last set of lockdowns didn't achieve much of anything in the end. I expect that we're just going to let the next pandemic rip and take no measures at all.

[-] Guamer@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago

As bad as the U.S. covid response ended up being long-term, and even as a general doomer, I do think if this ends up a serious threat of breaching containment that they won't just sit back and let it happen.

A 1-in-2 fatality rate perks up ears far faster than 1-in-100, even the most deluded of capitalists would know how devastating that would be for profits.