As long as we keep simply blaming everything on Trump while ignoring root causes, we will continue to make the same mistakes (FYI, more people died in 2021- WITH vaccines, N95s, and home tests- than in 2020, with none of those things- it ain’t all DJT).
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To everyone who is convinced the pandemic would’ve played out differently had Trump not been in the White House…
Trump is not in the White House now, and yet it’s deja vu all over again.🤷🏽‍♂️

Different President/ administration, but many of the exact same mistakes as in 2020. 🤦🏽‍♂️

DAIRY-WORKER cases of H5N1: These fundamental reasons could partly explain why we are seeing acceleration of US cases of H5N1 showing up in dairy workers:

'Third U.S. dairy worker comes down with avian flu; officials monitoring farm'

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#4 Number of UNPROTECTED dairy workers 🧑‍🌾👩‍🌾 👷‍♀️👷‍♂️ is very large: 'There are perhaps 150,000 dairy farm workers in the US... The great majority are likely undocumented. These workers are the people most exposed to H5N1 – and the least protected.'

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#3 SCALE of dairy farming is ~10 million cows: 'The number of milk cows 🐄🐄 in the US decreased slightly to 9.36 million.'

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#2: CLOSE-CONTACT: “When you disconnect machine from udder, it can shoot 🌠 milk🥛in your face 🫢... Workers in milking parlor might spend 12 hours a day with face about 6 in away from udders... we ate our tacos with cow shit on our hands.”

(2/5)
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Why are dairy cows 🐮 much riskier than other species 🐱🐐 for H5N1 transmission to humans 🧑‍🤝‍🧑?

#1: Udders = SUPER-SPREADERS: 'sacs of cows’ udders were loaded with... receptors that bird flu viruses like H5N1 can attach to. '

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Hotez has cast accurate descriptions of his emails with Daszak and Morens as “aggression.”

But in my opinion the “aggression” Hotez is most worried about is his own screaming conscience.

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Peter Hotez was a shameless dial-a-quote for the health and science press for years even before COVID, making him an effective propagandist against transparency with regard to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

But what is his interest in keeping certain doors closed? He

This indicates to me CDC scientists that were physically working with covid in Jan 2020 were being cautious with a new virus that had an estimated 3% fatality rate.
They did so by: Treat it as airborne, require BSL2, N95 masks in addition to standard PPE & disinfection.
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One form I got was from Feb 2020. The agent was called '2019 novel Coronavirus' i.e. what we now call covid 19.

See some details in the checkbox section for Risk Evaluation

Risk Mitigations (how do you plan to reduce risk?)
Highlights added by me.

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The CDC RA describes plans, common questions have check boxes or fill in the blank answers.
The form guides the assessment & some answers automatically indicate higher risk.

There are long form sections to give detailed information check box answers cannot cover.

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The CDC Biological Risk Assessment Form is typical for a government or pharma lab that works with bacteria & viruses.

Typically a lab does a RA for each type of experiment, operation, virus or bacteria.

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RAs look at what are the hazards, how you deal with them & how much are hazards reduced if you take precautions.
These are assessments made by people & the individual ratings for parts are by design not precise - but are by design meant to be cautious.

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Recently I saw some Risk assessment documents from CDC on covid from Jan & Feb 2020. They are interesting to say the least.

So what is a Risk Assessment (RA)?

RA is a formal process of analyzing a situation & understanding the hazards of what are you dealing with.
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For anyone still in the it-was-novel, they-didn’t-know-COVID-was-airborne camp.

YES, THEY DID. OF COURSE!

You should be mad.

Splashing this across the 📰 would’ve saved many lives.

👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

A third U.S. farm worker infected with bird flu is the first to experience respiratory symptoms statnews.com/2024/05/30/bir… Helen Branswell 🇨🇦

CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁 The most important health news, in one place.

.Dept. of Agriculture confirms 2 more dairy herds with #H5N1 #birdflu infected cows. These are 2 herds from Michigan, which reported them earlier in the week. USDA & Michigan's numbers currently jibe. The cumulative national total is 69 herds in 9 states.
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The same virologist who falsely predicted over a decade ago that his gain-of-function research on H5N1 would lead to new vaccines also helped convince millions that COVID didn't result from gain-of-function research. usrtk.org/covid-19-origi…

It is not surprising that another dairy worker in MI has a confirmed H5 influenza infection. But that this was on a separate farm than last week's case AND involves respiratory symptoms is deeply concerning.