67 horses have died from an "unknown and highly contagious disease at a Colorado facility

You can scare yourself looking stuff up like this all at once and assume everything is going to hell. However animal populations get diseases all the time, same as us. Sometimes it results in large die-offs, sometimes not. There’s no reason to panic that these three news items are part of some apocalyptic trend though.

Most scary sounding trends are just increased reporting on said thing, combined with unawareness of what the baseline rate of said thing is.

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