• LustyArgonian@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    Well, it won’t be Covid-25, it’ll be H5N1 bird flu, which so far has a mortality rate of 50%-60% in people and damn near 100% in birds and 70% in cats. Covid-19 was around 1% and killed millions.

    Even if bird flu is more around 30%, that’s an insane number.

    The bird flu vaccine has mostly been developed and iirc is available in some European countries. We have a vaccine here too but it hasn’t gone to trial.

    If you get that vaccine or not may very well be life or death.

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      6 hours ago

      To be fair, if the death rate is like 50%, anti-maskers won’t be so anti-mask for long.

      You know how religious people always say stuff like “There are no atheists in a foxhole” or some bs like that? (I hate that phrase btw) I’d say “There are no virus-deniers in a pandemic with 50+% death rate, and people arouns you are dropping dead en-masse on the street.” Survival instincts and fear will overide whatever conspiracy theories they have. People would be self quarrantining.

      I predict some riots and people both left and right of the political spectrum would storm white house.

      Also: It’d actually be over much quicker. Probably over in a month (with billions dead worldwide, obviously).