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- news@lemmy.world
- science@lemmy.world
- aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- news@lemmy.world
- science@lemmy.world
- aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
Remember during the bird flu outbreaks in China and our media took every opportunity to fear monger with it? Pretty quiet from them for the last, what, at least 8 months this has been progressing.
Just wait till it actually gets going, they’ll find some way to connect it to China, like some random Chinese-American guy getting it and the entire US news media will say that it must be a Chinese bioweapon.
one ticket to the sun please
On the bright side, it’ll probably take out a lot ghouls as they declare it a hoax… On the not so bright side, many of us might not get the chance to see them choke on their liquefied lungs.
I make a promise to you comrades, so long as I’m still kicking, I’ll post crabs for every notable pig that the Birdger flu takes out.
Reminder to mask, both for COVID and for this when it inevitably gets human-human transmission.
just bought a bunch
I posted the following - I dunno when. A couple weeks ago? It was gallows humor post for obvious reasons. In any case - I couldn’t get it out of my mind for about four days. Then I forgot about it. I didn’t even remember it. I saw it in a Bluesky thread.
I wonder how much more time of gallows humor we have until sheer terror arrives. Months?
policy failures
pandemic denialism
antiscience disinformation
policy failures
oh no
pandemic denialism
oh no
antiscience disinformation
OH NO
I think it’s - cough - safe to say we are reaching the
c/news + c/doomer singularity
where a lot of news is both.