Why even have a health department if their answer to disease is "literally just do nothing about it"
this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2025
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Because they aren't just doing nothing, they are actively interfering.
Many departments in bad governments are named the opposite of what they do: department of defense, the department of public safety, the department of health…
The worm is definitely in control.
The worm is trying to take out the birds so the early bird cannot get the worm.
Maybe the worm isn’t and feels as helpless and terrified as the rest of us
The worm died of hunger years ago.
Damn illithids! Ghaik trash!
Welp, looks like Visser 3 is real.
... Time to bust out the old Hork-Bajir morph.
I know that if farmers love one thing, it's deliberately losing a ton of money. I'm sure they'll be thrilled with this idea.
Stupid cunts would continue voting R.
As long as the republicans bail them out.
They don’t though. Family farm ownership is dropping rapidly and farmer suicide rates are sky high.
258,000,000
But this guy in particular can't be fully human. Swims in sewage contaminated water, eats roadkill, has dead brainworm that's probably controlling his mind. He's also like one layer of skin away from being one of the nightmare things from "They Live."
SUGAR, WATER
OBEY
Secret plan to force everyone to be vegan by killing all the animals. Checkmate humans!
Don't forget the ticks that make you allergic to meat
All the animals including humans.
We can't eat people anymore??? Where will I get my pRoTeIn from??
Guy heard the term herd immunity and did not think it through.
not sure if it is grammatically correct to use "thinks" in a sentence relating RFK jr
It's grammatically correct, but maybe not semantically correct. Grammar has to do with word ordering and stuff. Semantics has to do with word meaning.
That's because to him herd=food. I seriously wouldn't be surprised to find out one day that's he's a cannibal.
What's more, the mortality rate of H5N1 is extremely high among common poultry, reaching 100% in domestic chickens.
Cheers to the new pandemic 🍻
I have natural immunity!
7th grade science test question: What would evolve faster, a virus that can create millions of new copies every day, or a chicken.
Apparently RFK jr thinks the chickens will evolve immunity faster than the virus can evolve to jump to humans.
If the pressure is right, the virus should evolve to be less lethal. If the virus kills its host before infecting a new host, then that evolution is not advantageous. This is why low contact was a good tactic for COVID. Only the strains that were less lethal would continue and out complete the ones that kill people.
Unfortunately I doubt that he would mandate a good management of this. In a environment like barn chickens live in, the virus can transmit so regularly that the lethality is not a pressure for it.
I think it's less that they evolve and more that we just select the already resistant chickens.
Yeah, but it could take several generations of chickens until “resistant” evolves into being immune enough to not lose half the flock every time. And in the mean time since human farmers will have to be tending to the chickens in some way, there always a risk of the virus jumping to humans.
If the options are
- culling
- vaccination
- breeding resistance
Culling should be the last resort. I get that everything rfk jr touches turns to roadkill, but this is less on the crazy spectrum than some of his other antics.
Or doesn't realize that evolutionary pressure tends to kill the shit oudda anything that ain't up to snuff...bye bye poultry industry. Likely doesn't care tho. Seems like a steak every night kinda guy.
Imagine if it were a Prion problem instead. Think he'd be like FEED THE COWS MORE COW! THEY'LL TOUGH IT OUT!
I feel bad for the chickens. But they probably live in a hellhole anyway, so maybe they at least get to take some humans with them.
Costco chicken! Now pre chlorinated and triple kiln fried in real hydrochloric acid! Now with 99% less weak flu!
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