California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an emergency proclamation on Wednesday in response to growing concerns over bird flu cases in the state and across the country.
  • Jamablaya@lemmy.todayEnglish
    21·
    3 hours ago

    You’d think you could deal with a flu outbreak in cattle without a state of fucking emergency. You’d also think that you’d not make claims about a flu humans aren’t getting yet as extremely deadly to humans.

  • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
    18·
    11 hours ago

    Great and all. But can we get something below a state of emergency. Everything seems to trigger one of those these days. It kinda loses it’s meaning when overused.

  • cm0002@lemmy.world
    361·
    13 hours ago

    It’s so great to have a good administration coming in that will have a good handle on the upcoming 2025 plague! /s

  • surfrock66@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    12 hours ago

    I don’t think the impacts of this are being fully realized yet…like the stores here (Sacramento) are low on eggs, the zoos have taken the birds off exhibit, and I live next to a large wildlife preserve that’s a huge bird migration path and they just like haven’t been there this year. Those giant starling clouds were an annual thing for a week or so and they just didn’t happen this year. It really feels like there’s a LOT less small birds; the big herons and stuff are still visible, but like walking the preserve is noticeably quieter.

    • TheLowestStone@lemmy.world
      9·
      10 hours ago

      There are currently 61 active infections in humans and 34 of those are in California. Our poultry farms have been devastated with millions of birds killed.

    • GHiLA@sh.itjust.works
      123·
      11 hours ago

      They’re as (corpo)left as Texas is right.

      To the same extremes, just the opposite direction.