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[–] 217 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Let's see here, RFK wants to ban vaccines and promote raw milk.
There is currently a bird flu epidemic in dairy cattle from bird droppings getting into the feed.
Consuming raw milk is one of the few ways humans can become infected with bird flu.
I'm sure this will be fine and the virus won't mutate to allow for human to human transfer, it if it does luckily it only has a 56% mortality rate compared to the Covid morality rate of ~4% during its peak.

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  • [–] 105 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    RFK is secretly a flu virus wearing a human suit.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    [preface and disclaimer: I’m remembering off the top of my head something I read over 30 years ago, details may not be exactly correct]

    Not sure whether you remember the chapter of Sideways Stories from Wayside School, by Louis Sachar, in which there was a student who nobody liked, who was a real asshole and wore a stinky raincoat. The kids kept trying to take off his raincoat, but underneath was another, stinkier raincoat, just layers and layers of progressively stinky raincoats, and with every raincoat removed, the kid just became a bigger asshole and his laugh louder and more high-pitched.

    At the very end, he turned out to be a dead rat in a pile of stinky raincoats.

    That’s what the whole administration is shaping up to be. Except we knew this was coming and allowed it to happen, so I guess that, ultimately, we are the dead rat.

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  • [–] 64 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    In the US, right now, the dairy farms where they let the cats drink raw milk saw half their cats die.

    This is an actual thing.

    Edit based on comments below: The context of this thread is concerning hi path AI. I should have been more clear. I am referring to dairy farms where the cows have hi path AI and the cats drink raw milk.

    However it is impossible to tell if your raw milk is infected with hi path AI, so to the readers of this who are really in to drinking raw milk, I wish you luck.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

    You're sort of right ( based on the article I think you read about) The cats drank bird flu contaminated raw milk which led to them dying. For that reason, raw milk is dangerous to humans because pasteurized milk wouldn't be as dangerous. have reduced the chances of the bird flu, and other illnesses, from people that drink it. https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/04/concerning-spread-of-bird-flu-from-cows-to-cats-suspected-in-texas/

    *Edited

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    On the plus side the high mortality rate should lower the spread.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    True, but on the minus side, dumb people actively seeking out the infected milk would artificially increase the instances and thus the spread.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    But on the plus side, dumb people actively infect themselves and get removed from the gene pool.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    But on the minus side, other people don't have the choice to completely avoid those dumb people and thus minimize their risk of infection.

    If they did, covid wouldn't have been a tenth as bad as it was/is.

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    [–] 112 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    trump's appointments are in the style "Who is the worst person i know for the job that lives inside my colon?"

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  • [–] 78 points 2 years ago

    the guy responsible for the death of 83 Samoans has more health advice …

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  • [–] 59 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Oh god he’s gonna kill someone

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  • [–] 55 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    Try listening to the Behind The Bastards podcast about this guy if you can spare the time.

    He is messed up far more than you think.

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    [–] 50 points 2 years ago (4 children)
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    [–] 49 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Raw milk is dangerous. When I was growing up people would get sick all the time from raw milk it gets contaminated all the time.

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  • [–] 49 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I'm fairly certain, they just all got together to make a list of all the stupid things they could do to own the libs.

    The neat thing about this one, is that It only hurts the people that are going to follow him. The people who didn't vote for that side know better.

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    [–] 44 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    This is the dumbest shit I swear to god. Fuck this timeline already.

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    [–] 34 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    If I and my friends and family could be certain of getting immunized against the inevitable H5N1 pandemic, this wouldn't bother me so much. But RFK jr. will combat the flu with honey and whole grains and the death toll will make Covid look like a cold. Thinning the herd. Maybe we'll get lucky and RFK jr & Trump and his true believers will get it first.

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    [–] 33 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Today's Republican Party didn't get into their position of awesome power by listening to experts....

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    How do you fail to ask yourself why it was pasteurized in the first place?

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    This is a situation where we let Darwinism take it's course. The people who are stupid enough to listen to this are going to drink it, get sick, and then wonder what happened. Maybe I'm more negative than usual, but fuck em. Let them fuck themselves.

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    [–] 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

    Trump wants the population to be closer to 100 million. He said that before the start of one of his press conferences to a journalist ... something to the effect that "we could use 2/3 less of all of you."

    He is willing to kill off a lot of us to make his life easier. The USA elected a right wing Pol Pot.

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    [–] 32 points 2 years ago

    With any luck MAGAts will self-select in removing themselves like they did during COVID.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Newspapers need to just call RFK jr what he is - a child killer. Forget about this raw milk stuff and lay out the direct harm he has caused including deaths of babies from his vaccine misinformation.

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    [–] 28 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Go ahead. Let your anti science cultists get themselves sick. I don't fucking care anymore.

    It feels like we're living in the middle of one of those cultist documentaries, where 29 years from now the stupid fucks that survive are going to be on camera going "I know it sounds weird, but it was really compelling at the time". Except this cult doesn't even have fun drug fueled orgies.

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    [–] 27 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    Raw milk is totally safe....if the cow is totally healthy and if there aren't pathogens floating around the cow.

    I mean, my friend next door used to drink off the cows's teats. His Mom would scold him for it, but he did it to show off. We used to milk their three "city cows". Literally the cows would sleep in their garage and then walk to pasture on an every day basis. They would get milked every morning and we would walk to their house and buy a couple of liters from them. Sometimes cheese or bulgaros yogurt.

    Everyone loved the cows. They smelled like cows but you could safely pet them and not expect feces on your hands.

    The cows we get milk from are all rolling around in feces in confined space and they eat dry moldy feed. Like that stuff is total animal abuse and prone to end up giving someone a cow Bourne disease of some kind.

    My neighbors also had pigs and we had pigs. That is why we never ate pig... cows are clean compared to pigs. Pigs will eat bugs smeared in pig feces. That is not normal really because pigs in the wild, although dirty, do not just swim in their feces like captive pigs do. If you ever want to go vegan for whatever reason, visit a captive pig farm. Learn that smell....then go to the butcher shop's trash bin and learn that smell...then realize that when you get your meat in your fridge, the death smell is what you're smelling. Makes me wanna puke 🤮 just thinking about it. And if your neighbors ever killed a pig, you would know it. Pigs don't go down easy. That's one positive thing I can definitely say about pigs. They know you're gonna kill them and they scream like anyone would....as in a person. It churns you inside out hearing that scream and then when it stops you know it happened. Pigs don't go down quietly.

    Anyway don't eat animals, but if you're gonna eat milk or dairy, make sure it's pasteurized! Any well understood retarded person like myself could agree 💯👍.

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    [–] 24 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I just hope they have the raw milk distribution set up to go live nationwide at the same time. I want all the people excited for this to get it, and enjoy it for as long as possible before the news gets to them.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago

    By experts, do they mean anyone that paid attention to science and/or history classes in any developed country?

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    In 2025, how many children will die from raw milk?

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    [–] 23 points 2 years ago

    If it didn't risk spreading disease to everyone else, I would totally be on board with letting science deniers drink more raw milk

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Alex Jones will now be replaced by this idiot fuckwad. Buckle up for the crazy!

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