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Bird flu in Canada may have mutated to become more transmissible to humans

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88 points amichail | 2 comments | 20 Nov 24 23:11 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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xyst ◴[21 Nov 24 00:19 UTC] No.42199654[source]▶
Reports like this remind me of very early COVID days. And USA just elected a POTUS that did a shit job of getting us through that same pandemic. With the cabinet that he has (rfk jr, oz…), let’s just hope these are truly fringe cases and doesn’t lead to an outbreak
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OCASMv2 ◴[21 Nov 24 07:04 UTC] No.42201850[source]▶
What would have a democrat president done different during the first year of the pandemic?
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1. th0ma5 ◴[21 Nov 24 07:54 UTC] No.42202079[source]▶
The premise here is that there would've been one. It is vaguely possible that since a Democrat wouldn't have defunded the US presence in the region, that it could've been contained. Not plausible really, but possible. That scenario would not have been (and was not) possible with the decisions that Republicans took in the lead up to the pandemic.
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2. tourmalinetaco ◴[21 Nov 24 12:36 UTC] No.42203715[source]▶
Then the premise is lackluster. If the Chinese government couldn’t contain the US-paid coronavirus, then how could (or more accurately, why would) the US if they were in the region?