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USA Unprepared for H5N1 Pandemic (www.newsweek.com)

submitted 5 months ago by MHSJenkins@infosec.pub to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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In short we've learned nothing, done nothing, and will be caught flat again. If you're not ready, get ready, because no one is coming to save you.

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago (3 children)

That’s like a right wing doomsday prepper fantasy. Them and their arsenal against a mob of whoever trying to take their stuff.

But they always stop before the end where they get killed anyway. Only so many bullets and starving people with nothing to lose aren’t giving up.

[–] Talaraine@fedia.io 7 points 5 months ago

I laughed because you are right, but you're heavily discounting the fact that most people would cowtow immediately if they thought they could get the slightest bit of protection.

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 6 points 5 months ago

I mean, the sales pitch works to get them to buy the guns. After that point whatever they do with them is no longer the salesperson's concern... :-P

The same goes with prepper gear - like, what amount of food & water is going to help you survive a nuclear winter? Especially in comparison to paying taxes to a government that will formulate economic strategies that lead towards nations never using such weapons in the first place, b/c their wealthiest business-people stand too much to lose.

I can barely imagine the mindset of a prepper who readies themselves for all manner of attacks against them... but then refuses to take a vaccine? Or wear a mask, or simply stand 6 feet apart and/or reduce going out especially during peak times, and also works to prevent others from having access to those vaccines or wearing masks of their own volition.

Some people are more vulnerable to different types of "attacks", disinformation being one of the most effective that has ever existed.:-(

[–] bamfic@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

wolverines!

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Only two survived the event (1984) version. Man, that film didn’t age well. The Chinese were our allies, Nicaragua and Cuba I think were part of the attackers. Russia is still an enemy, though.