An unknown illness kills over 50 people in part of Congo with hours between symptoms and death
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If you're really careful, you might see that I qualified that statement above
it killed too few people for many to care
The emphasis is there for a reason.
And BTW, that statement is not a joke, but based on actual study results. You know why? Covid having a 2% mortality also means it has a 98% survival rate - much much higher in younger healthier people. Exactly that was the problem. For the vast majority of people covid did not feel like a real threat, because it wasn't. Long covid and the other long term effects only really came to light in 2021 and later.
I didn't shelter in 2020 for myself, but for others. If there is no such thing a society, individuals will act like selfish assholes and don't wear masks, get vaccinated, etc. If Covid would have caused widespread erectile dysfunction, the entire world would have been shutdown in 5min and nobody would even doubt masks.
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I would also recommend not eating children.
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I don’t like eating kale
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Fuck! Dudes! I strictly repeated several times to not eat bats so we could prevent another covid! WTF was wrong with these people? Bat= not food!!! Other not foods include but not limited to Stork, venomous things, pets, people, clouds, poop, teeth, big cats, other cats, armadillos, rinos, elephants and other nature show animals. Food animals... Chicken, tilapia, cow, pig.
Now the next and most important thing to do is: 1) don't go to Congo to see or touch or be near the dead. 2) don't come back from Congo if you saw, touched or were near the dead. Easy peasy.
Obviously this was a mutant rabies virus. Let's call it RabiesUltra25...RU25 for short. Thanks for reading! Look out! Behind you! Gotcha!
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Why yes, actually! The bird flu pandemic should be along any day now (just waiting on that one last mutation to be able to spread between humans), and that one's projected to have a super-high death rate.
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Pretty sure you eat anything possible when you're starving, and these children may have been.
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have you tried bat?
Could be manna from heaven, for all you know
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You ever eat a hot dog? Crazy stuff in there just as sketchy as bat.
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you could eat balls instead
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Say everybody have you seen my balls? They're big and salty and brown. If you ever need a quick, pick-me-up, just stick my balls in your mouth -
Absolutely!
Another example is HIV: Initial infection is just a minor flu, you're then infectious and active for 5-10 years before becoming seriously ill with AIDS (of course this is for untreated HIV). This allowed the illness to spread for decades adapting to humans before finally being identified in the 80s, killing millions.
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Sadly, that makes this unlikely to go pandemic. If it kills too fast it can't spread.
We'll have to live a little while longer...
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"Why do we send all these people food"
So they don't have to eat fucking bats with covid-9000
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is it a matter of access to foods and resources
This is generally why people eat certain things, yes.
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God damn it
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WHO, governments, responsible media lost the war about representing and reacting to the pandemic right in most places and there weren't much pushback against misinformation.
Salting the wound: after antivaxxing became a part of people's identity, got coupled with their political views, the critical mortality rate to sober up the majority only grew higher.
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Because of the diseases right?
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This is why we had programs like USAID. To keep people from starving and eating infected animals harboring endemic viruses we know nothing about.
Even in the US, it's highly inadvisable to eat animals/bush meat infected with CWD even if it technically can't infect humans ...yet.
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Bird flu could be that. By some estimates it has had a 51% mortality rate. But if it's all the same to you, I'd still rather not.
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