need to replace c/covid with c/pestilence
I sure love living in a society that doesn’t bother to protect itself against easily avoided threats.
“M’lord a blizzard is coming, perhaps we should build shelter, or even a fire.”
“HERATIC! HOUSES ARE DRACONIAN! THIS WILL CULL THE WEAK, MAKE US STRONG *his child dies” GOD WILLED IT!"This one simple trick makes it impossible for your cat to get bird flu
Straight edge outdoor cats
i remember reading about wet food that was contaminated with the bird flu so its not a 100% efective trick
Second simple trick: no raw food
Third trick
vodka chicken
H7N9 on raw chicken remained viable at −20°C for 9 days, 4°C for 7 days, and 25°C for 4 days; therefore, H7N9 on raw chicken could be a potential source of transmission domestically and internationally.
Second, we investigated the virucidal effects of six standard disinfectants—household bleach, ethanol, hand soap, peracetic acetic acid, lactic acid, and acetic acid—on H7N9 and H5N8 (clade 2.3.4.4b) on raw chicken (appendix p 2). HPAI viruses such as H7N9 and H5N8 were not susceptible to 2 min incubation with hand soap or lactic acid; however, no infectious virus could be detected after a 2 min incubation at room temperature with the other disinfectant agents.
Unless I get it and give it to them.
Or my dog tracks something in on her paws.
Or my dog catches it and gives it to them.
Or my parents cats who they fucking refuse to try and keep inside will catch it and expose my cats even though they’re kept separate.
Or a sick bird smacks into the window
Avoiding outdoor exposure and not feeding your cat raw food are genuinely your best bet.
The likelihood of you transferring it to your cat is extremely low, essentially impossible. If you and your family don’t work in animal agriculture, animal husbandry, or meat processing, you’re not going to catch it in the first place. All of the fear right now is on animal-to-human exposure, because the virus is spread by physical contact. (particularly physical contact with bodily fluids)
Again, avoiding outdoor exposure is your best bet. Don’t let your dog chase birds or eat bird poop. Don’t let cats outside and make others aware of the high risk to both the cat and themselves.
Window strikes shouldn’t be a major risk factor for spread, but preventing them is worth doing regardless. Dotted marker grids placed on the outside of the window and spaced around 5cm are really effective. White for reflective window strikes and black for fly-through window strikes. I bought a bunch in bulk and just throw 'em up on every window every time I move. I genuinely don’t even notice them from the inside.
The article is interesting, but it’s obvious they picked the most alarmist, misleading headline possible, where they make it sound like this is likely to explode into a hyper deadly pandemic at any moment.
Both WHO and CDC considers the public health risk from avian flu low, but not non-existent. It’s obviously important that these organizations monitor and stay vigilant about diseases like this, but there isn’t any reason to believe we’re looking at another pandemic or major public health crisis.
Here is the WHO’s most recent report, which I really recommend going through if you get anxious from headlines like this: https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/updated-joint-fao-who-woah-public-health-assessment-of-recent-influenza-a(h5)-virus-events-in-animals-and-people_apr2025
Oh, good. Thanks.
Common outdoor cat L
do NOT give your cat a little piece of raw chicken as a treat rn
Looking at data from 2004 to 2024, researchers uncovered 607 cases of bird flu in cats around the world, including 302 deaths. These cases spanned 18 countries and involved 12 different types of cats, from household pets to big cats like tigers.
Being the “no outdoor cats” change you want to see in the world
We’re done aren’t we
Laughs in ecologist that has known we were done for decades now
“One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise.” Aldo Leopold
I think about this quote a lot
But dirt owl, how fast will we be done?
I don’t know, like 20-50 years
Comrade Dirt Owl, is there any book that I can read about the FREAKING ECOLOGICAL COLLAPSE AND THE ESTIMATED EFFECTS FOR THE NEXT DECADES???
Thank you.
Ah, well, there is a lot of research on it in a lot of different fields… I struggle to think of a single source that sums it up nicely.
Let me try and find some reports. One moment.
Edit: here
https://www.nrdc.org/stories/climate-scientists-world-we-have-only-20-years-theres-no-turning-back
Otherwise you’ll have to go search what you need from the Journal of Environmental Sciences https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-environmental-sciences
It’s grave, but giving up isn’t an option. Gotta keep surviving.
David Wallace-Wells put out ‘The Uninhabitable Earth’ which I think is supposed to be worst case scenario.
I often go back to this interview specifically for this moment:
I was talking to a really prominent climate scientist a few months ago, who was one of the lead authors of the IPCC last report, and has been doing a lot of consulting work in New York City where he lives. So I said, “Are we gonna build a sea wall in New York?” And he said, “Oh, of course we’ll build a sea wall. Manhattan real estate’s way too expensive to lose.” But those kinds of projects … You look at the subway, it takes 30 years.
If we started now, he said, we couldn’t build it fast enough to save parts of Howard Beach, South Brooklyn, Queens. He said, “The city knows this, and you’re gonna start seeing them stopping infrastructure repair, not doing work on the subway lines and even telling those residents explicitly, ‘You might be able to live here for another 20 years, but you’re not gonna be able to leave this house for your kids.’”
As far as I’m aware they still haven’t started. From an article in 2024:
https://newrepublic.com/article/178452/clean-air-rich-luxury-good
That guardian article, while depressing, was actually really nice for remembering we’re not alone in the despair, and in the technical/political struggle. Sometimes, after spending time with “ordinary fuckin people”, I’m almost convinced to ignore my lying eyes- fortunately the seeming omnipresence of convective cells reminds me.
I spend a decent amount of time with extremely “ordinary fuckin people”, and they really aren’t the worst, most people just seem to be tuned out. But especially with regards to the climate crisis and capitalist greed destroying us all, the majority of people seem to be in agreement.
Thank you very much! Also thanks to JoeByeThen!
It’s grave, but giving up isn’t an option. Gotta keep surviving.
Totally. At the end of the day, we need to keep fighting.
Hasta la victoria, siempre.
The timeline is really more like a hundred years at least, and even then you’re relying heavily on catastrophic and sometimes dubious tipping points
Based on?
Which part? Things like the clathrate gun hypothesis, or that it will likely be hundreds of years and still a lot of effort for humanity to be done?
For the latter, I think you can take the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum as the “done” point (I don’t really agree there is such a point because people already live in ridiculous conditions now, and you can protect yourself from a wet bulb event for the price of a car) and from memory under RCP 8.5 (and drilling up the arctic) the IPCC modelling put that at a couple hundred years off.
Dirt Owl lore drop
that ain’t goodI’m sure it’s fine.
🙂
No no no no no no
bird flu has been revolutionarily indoctrinated on the issue of outdoor cats and has stepped into the ring
trust the plan
I thank the supreme race every day for creating covid
I’m fine with the cats… They’re invasive and need a major culling
First it came for the birds and I did not speak out because I am not a bird
Then it came for the cats and I did not speak out because I am not a cat
Don’t get too excited because it’s not just talking about domestic cats. It is also killing big cats like tigers which definitely do not need any culling right now
Aw… Tigers have a million uses
