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Nonya "Fucking Bitch" Bidniss
@Nonya_Bidniss@infosec.exchange

@kimlockhartga@beige.party I just really hope this virus doesn't adapt to humans until we have competent scientific leadership where it needs to be. I've been watching H5N1 since being a biothreats analyst in the mid-aughts. If it becomes human-transmissible with its historical mortality rate, the people who raged about wearing a mask & getting a vax during COVID will die by the truckload. That problem will rapidly end.

Kim Possible :kimoji_fire:
@kimlockhartga@beige.party

@Nonya_Bidniss@infosec.exchange

I just talked with someone about this very thing today!

We were discussing how people would at least have some minimal protection from bird flu if they just got a seasonal flu shot, let alone follow mitigation measures. Those who have not prepared to protect themselves from the next pandemic (and we will have another one, and soon) are in for a shock. The mortality rate for COVID was low compared to what other viruses can do.

My big concern right now is that a surprising number of people in the medical profession "don't believe in COVID." Like 2 million people didn't die. It's the most amazing mass delusion I've ever seen. The very folks you might need to care for you at the hospital might not believe in science. I don't think we solve that problem easily or quickly.

That Nimbus variant has taken Florida by storm.

Nonya "Fucking Bitch" Bidniss
@Nonya_Bidniss@infosec.exchange

@kimlockhartga@beige.party I've heard a lot of that COVID denialism resides in nurses in particular. Not great.

Kim Possible :kimoji_fire:
@kimlockhartga@beige.party

@Nonya_Bidniss@infosec.exchange YES! I don't like to get anyone in trouble, but in 2021, while we were losing so many lives to COVID, the lab tech for my Rheumatologist refused to wear a mask. I had to tell my doctor, and he let her go after talking to her twice.

She said that she went without a mask to "toughen up her immune system." This was not only absurd, but highly ironic, as I was, of course, being treated for a hyperactive immune system. That's what autoimmune disease is. It's not a good thing. She should have thought about protecting everyone else. Every single patient there was on an immunosuppressant.

Makes me mad even now.

Nonya "Fucking Bitch" Bidniss
@Nonya_Bidniss@infosec.exchange

@kimlockhartga@beige.party Which goes to show that many people in med-adjacent fields are trained to perform *processes,* not to understand underlying theory. They absorb mis- and disinformation just as well as people in non-med-adjacent work. We shouldn't make assumptions about their actual understanding of things.