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So I’m at Overland Expo listening to a presentation about going to Patagonia and the person giving the presentation talks about a beach where orcas swim back and forth and beach themselves to kill baby seals, but now the baby seals are all dead because of bird flu, so the orcas are hungry. And when I hear that, I think to myself WHAT? Here it is:
Biologists are concerned about the impacts of avian influenza on seals and sea lions. The virus, which has devastated wild bird populations and poultry operations around the world, but has also affected a variety of mammal species. That includes pinnipeds, which have died from the virus in various places across the globe.
Over 300 seals died from the disease in New England, several more died in Puget Sound in Washington, over 20,000 sea lions have died and Chile and Peru and thousands of elephant seals have died in Argentina, according to the Associated Press.
Scientists believe the mammals are likely contracting the virus from affected seabirds.
Maybe I don’t read the right papers, but that was news to me. So it’s more than a little disconcerting that the wrongest man on earth, RFK Jr, has decided to basically shut down our public health system because he knows better. He says stupid stuff like this:
I know what a healthy child is supposed to look like. I’m looking at kids as I walk through the airports today...and I see these kids that are just overburdened with mitochondrial challenges...and I know that’s not how our children are supposed to look.
This fucker is steeped in horseshit woo. Of course, he’s decimating the agency that should watch out for bird flu:
Senior CDC vaccine research and public health leaders who resigned in protest told hundreds of supporters across the street from campus on Thursday that the Trump administration needs to “get politics out of public health”.
The agency is reeling from the firing of the CDC chief, Susan Monarez, but Monarez, who was confirmed as CDC chief just a month ago, has refused to be removed. Four senior leaders – Debra Houry, Demetre Daskalakis, Daniel Jernigan and Jennifer Layden – then resigned in protest, citing the alleged spread of misinformation under the Trump administration and political interference in their work. The staffers cheered and applauded them at the event on Thursday.
“You are the people that protect America, and America needs to see that you are the people that protect America, and we are going to be your loudest advocates,” said Daskalakis to the throng. Daskalakis, who was accompanied at the rally by Houry and Jernigan, is now the former director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and is known for his leadership in HIV prevention and vaccination programs and the Biden administration’s response to the mpox outbreak.
The three, plus Jennifer Leyden, who led the office of public health data, resigned together on Thursday to make a statement about the damage the administration had done to public vaccine research, and in protest of the administration’s response to vaccine disinformation, they said.
When bird flu finally jumps to humans and starts killing us, that leather-skinned testosterone-soaked nepobaby failson is going to let people die rather than give up his nutty beliefs about disease process.
(The thumbnail for this post is RFK the lesser and “Dr” Oz climbing rocks at Garden of the Gods in a place where they shouldn’t, and leatherface is wearing jeans, as usual, even though it’s hot as hell. A typical idiotic tale for that moron.)
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