• DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Lol.

    Hope everyone’s ready for another pandemic. After all, an anti-vaxxer with brain worms is in charge of our health.

  • renrenPDX@lemmy.world
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    So next year the elderly and youth won’t be defended against the potential flu strain of the year. What could possibly go wrong.

  • betweenthesixes@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    “It’s a bad day for infectious diseases,” said Dr. Ofer Levy

    I would argue it’s a great day for infectious diseases, but a bad day for humanity.

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        That happens from time to time; it’s incredibly hard to predict which strains will be prevalent months down the line, and flu mutates so rapidly that what’s circulating now might be a rather different strain from what will be circulating by the time the vaccine is rolling out. It’s frequently a shot in the dark, but shooting in the dark is always going to get more hits than not shooting at all.

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          Another fun fact, they usually don’t just select a single strain for the yearly vaccine. They often select a handful of strains, and net on one of them being the one.

          So a shotgun in the dark.

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        Yeah but at their age there is still a good chance they get wiped out if they get hospitalized by the flu and they are unvaccinated even with good healthcare. And if they survive good chance the flu will advance their dementia to the next stage.

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          Oh don’t you worry, they’ll still get vaccinated using whatever blend a competent government (EU) decides upon in collaboration with the WHO.

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      The majority of us did not vote for this. And we’re trapped. We can’t riot like the French do; we’ll lose our jobs and our healthcare and our houses.

      This has been long in the making.

      • ubergeek@lemmy.today
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        We can’t riot like the French do; we’ll lose our jobs and our healthcare and our houses.

        If we don’t riot, we’re likely to lose our jobs, our healthcare, and our homes.