• chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    FML Bird Flu is going to be the next COVID…isn’t it?

    Good thing we figured out a lot of the social distancing, WFH, and masking stuff last time, I guess.

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      8 months ago

      While “next” is technically correct, it’ll be far worse than Covid was/is.
      Covid was our practice round and we failed.
      Not only is Bird Flu orders of magnitude more deadly than Covid, people are so thoroughly sick of pandemic protocols that we’ll never get the kind of mask adoption we saw during Covid and even that was abysmal.
      Employers will never allow people to work from home again if they can help it, they’re still Fighting to claw the rest back now.

      This will likely be our last pandemic.

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        8 months ago

        I don’t know that it’s that dire. “More deadly” doesn’t mean a disease will kill more people. A virus or bacteria has to be infectious enough to spread quickly, not kill enough people that are infected to allow people to spread it without causing it to die with them, but still be deadly enough to be noteworthy. COVID ticked all of those boxes. Bird Flu might as well, if it becomes human-to-human transmissible (which seems more likely every day), but I guess we’ll see.