I’ve seen chatter about this pick up in the past sleepless, but I’m struggling to discern whether it’s just clickbait or not.<p>Lots of stories about mammal transmission, mink farm outbreaks and one human case in South America.
Most media outlets downplayed COVID in early 2020. Now they've over-corrected and report on every minor outbreak and stoking fears for views and ad revenue.
No, BUT we MUST be concerned by the new-old-classic <a href="https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002198" rel="nofollow">https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002198</a>
It's just like when you enable poorly implemented static analysis vulnerability scanning and the underlying pedantic linter rules start triggering thousands of false positives.<p>I am worried about egg prices though. /s
What are expecting by asking a bunch of random people on here?<p>The pedantic taking things literally response? “Well you should not worry because that does not help”.<p>The axe to grind response? “Who cares because climate change will doom us all.”<p>The psychopathic dissociative response? “None of this matters because the earth will heal itself.”<p>The non-expert expert? “Yes/No.”<p>Oh I’m sure you’ll get some valuable guidance on interpreting the news here.
I was not concerned about COVID, I was concerned about authoritarian politicians introducing meaningless restrictions which should have no place in democracy and I was disgusted by majority of population which had no problem with them, I expected bigger disagreement despite having already very low meaning about society in general.<p>I'm even less concerned about bird flu, but I'd be much more concerned about fascist politicians and their fascist supporters since it seems majority of society has no problem with fascism.