cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/26197829
British Columbia teen had no underlying health conditions and had been exposed to dogs, cats and reptiles, officials say
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20241112230713/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/12/canada-bird-flu-teenager-hospital
Y’all already masking anyway for the current pandemic, right?
Ugh i don’t want to step up from the n95 k to the p100 respirator means i gotta shave my beard for a good mask seal. : p
Everyone thinks *i’m sick when they see me in a mask with my post-covid cough and it’s like nah, y’all are the heralds of nergal i’m just vibing.
I’ve heard positive things online about the envo mask from folks with beards. Might have to do a bit of shaping for it tho.
A couple years back i shelled out for a real fancy full face dual filter cartridge respirator. It rocks, it really does. It’s this huge bane looking thing with a face shield and everything but it’s more comfortable than a paper mask. Only downside is no one can understand me when I talk. : (
I thought I had the same issue, so I tried out one with a speaking diaphragm to help out. Turns out a lot of people were just pretending not to be able to hear me! I figured that one out after deciding to calmly recite a small collection of cursewords and insults every time someone tells me they can’t understand and seeing the looks on their faces.
Hmm, if it’s full face, does it have enough room for a bluetooth lavalier mic or something?
I’ve long thought about combining something like this (cw: masked women in a skimpy Harley Quinn cosplay)
https://www.instagram.com/p/C15Rm93u8LH/
with something like this
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I’m sure we can cope with this well, and all band together to make our public health measures work.
Looks like a bunch of their contacts were tested and nobody tested positive, and they didn’t have contact with a farm… Where the fuck did they contract it from?!
Afaik many birds can carry it. Could be a gull or a canada goose maybe?
The grey menace from the north! We just take them out as they invade to the South!!!
but the goose has a syringe
We need Pathologic emojis
We missed our chance with Covid-19, but we have been given another
Eternal
20162020They have ARDS
Unending social murder
How many more will die to keep the blood-treats flowing?
Pls, not again
doesn’t Matt think wearing a mask is too woke or something lol
Please you all, do your best to stay safe
Less contagious than COVID-19, from the Wikipedia article:
Humans - Avian flu viruses, both HPAI and LPAI, can infect humans who are in close, unprotected contact with infected poultry. Incidents of cross-species transmission are rare, with symptoms ranging in severity from no symptoms or mild illness, to severe disease that resulted in death.[43][42] As of February, 2024 there have been very few instances of human-to-human transmission, and each outbreak has been limited to a few people.[44] All subtypes of avian Influenza A have potential to cross the species barrier, with H5N1 and H7N9 considered the biggest threats.[45][46]
Viruses evolve to spread by spreading. It’ll start low and climb up
We are doing our best to learn nothing
Less contagious than COVID-19
So less contagious than the most contagious virus ever known in history? What a relief.
The worry for decades is a mutation that makes it as contagious as it is in birds, which may be a mild game over scenario if it ever happens.
Not to worry, it’s not like there’s another highly contagious virus making the rounds that bird flu could swap genes with if a coinfection occurs. Aren’t we fortunate?
So do we change the name to “human formerly known as bird flu” now?
This is deeply unfortunate
