I’m probably missing something but it’s been known for quite some time that dogs and cats can get infected. Is this different because the deer are spreading it to each other, while the domesticated animals tend to catch it from humans? Or is it because we could potentially mandate vaccination of pets in the future but we can’t get every wild deer?
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I wonder if it was the “Ass” in Assays that they gravitated to.
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Not to mention the ultimately more significant greedheads who won’t release their trademarked vaccines to the rest of the world for free.
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The issue is that it can sit in the white-tailed deer population for generations, apparently without causing huge die-offs, so it’ll always be lurking in the background to come back to humans in future if we ever let our guard down.
I can’t help but think about the fact that white-tailed deer have a tendency to live in MAGAt areas – rural and suburban – so the dangers of covid will continue to eviscerate that population.
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Oddly enough, this is a sort of offshoot of climate change as well, all of a sudden it’s not just africa and asia where animals that humans can encounter can be carrying nasty coronaviruses.
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And the white tail deer population has exploded lately (although chronic wasting disease may eat into that a bit, while raising a whole other type of concern) causing human-deer interactions to escalate significantly. You don’t have to be a hunter to encounter them, they thrive in suburban areas, love our gardens in the semi-rural area where i live, and leave slobber, poop piles and pee pretty much everywhere they go. So yeah, fun stuff. The bugs we have been able to control or eliminate (smallpox, SARS, MERS, polio (almost)) are either purely human or have a reservoir that is domesticated (MERS, probably) or rarely comes into contact with humans (maybe SARS, maybe Ebola). If there is a zoonotic resevoir that is both wild and frequently contacts humans, it will raise it’s ugly head with some regularity (see bubonic plague). How this will play out, like so much about this bug, remains to be seen. Stay tuned!
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The poor deer are getting hammered these last few years. The wasting likely prion disease & now a pandemic.
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On a side note, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to find articles that are not from a subscription news source. I wish someone would come up with service that provides access to an entire group of publications for a monthly fee so I wouldn’t have several different recurring charges. Or some sort of central subscription service that I can add all my subscriptions in one place. There’s a free money maker for someone if they want to steal my idea but I suspect there’s some sort of reason it hasn’t been done yet.
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Bundled newspaper subscriptions such as Apple News+ have been around for years, but depending on your tastes you may not find a service that includes every single publication you want in a single bundle.
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I thought Apple News even the Plus was just a news reader like Feedly. I use Feedly but If you don’t have a subscription to certain publications you still can’t read the article. Plus it’s unclear to me if Apple News is available for Android devices.
But I will spend some time researching Apple News+, thanks.
Never before have pharmacists refused to fill legitimate prescriptions? She needs to get out more.
This is that Frontline Doctors whackadoodle. She’s upset that some pharmacists are refusing to fill ivermectin prescriptions.
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It’s $9.99/month subscription and includes access to a number of publications such as WSJ, LA Times, SF Chronicle, Miami Herald, as well as a lot of magazines. I’m not a subscriber so I can’t speak to how good it is.
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That’s a big reason why so many of the articles I link are from NPR or their partners. Free access for me and anyone else who wants to read the article.
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Rock and roll.
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Risk of measles outbreaks growing as 22 million infants miss 1st vaccine:
Oh shirt. Of all the vaccines to miss.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/measles-vaccine-protect-disease-immune-amnesia
We are so forked.
ETA - oneboxing borked.
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I wonder how conservatives will justify these folks protesting on the road but not anyone else
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Aren’t we just supposed to run them down? Of course, I very much doubt that CA passed any of those stupid laws, so I guess they are protected by the same people that they hate so much. There is some irony in that.
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In a TikTok video that has garnered hundreds of thousands of views, Dr. Carrie Madej outlined the ingredients for a bath she said will “detox the vaxx” for people who have given into Covid-19 vaccine mandates.
The ingredients in the bath are mostly not harmful, although the supposed benefits attached to them are entirely fictional. Baking soda and epsom salts, she falsely claims, will provide a “radiation detox” to remove radiation Madej falsely believes is activated by the vaccine. Bentonite clay will add a “major pull of poison,” she says, based on a mistaken idea in anti-vaccine communities that toxins can be removed from the body with certain therapies.
Then, recommends adding in one cup of borax, a cleaning agent that’s been banned as a food additive by the Food and Drug Administration, to “take nanotechnologies out of you.”
In reality, in addition to being potentially harmful as a skin and eye irritant, a borax “detox bath” will not remove the effects of the Covid vaccine from your body.
The video is one of several methods anti-vaccine influencers and communities on social media have in recent weeks suggested to their many followers who have capitulated and received the Covid shot. Anti-vaccine message boards are now littered with users caving to societal pressure or work mandates and receiving a coronavirus vaccination.
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Hey, if they will get the damned vaccine, I don’t care if they try to wash it away, wish it away or pray it away afterwards. Getting the vaccine will not make them any less idiotic, sadly.
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