• ubergeek@lemmy.today
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    6 hours ago

    And people who care, actually do things like get vaccines, and believe doctors.

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      5 hours ago

      Unless they can’t, some people are immunocompromised. The world is more complicated than you think, so try thinking instead of reacting.

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        5 hours ago

        I dunno if we have them, because they are both only transmissible via tainted food or water. And, well, if you don’t drink or eat tainted food, you wont really have to worry, now will you?

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          4 hours ago

          You don’t know that you can’t have a vaccine against bacteria?

          Then maybe you’re out of your depth here.

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              24 minutes ago

              Dude, seriously stop digging. Vaccination is for viruses, not bacteria.

              I get that you really love your raw milk, but that doesn’t entitle you to just make shit up.

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      5 hours ago

      There isn’t an available bird flu vaccine that we could manufacture fast enough to make it available even if we started right now. This is assuming that they let us have it instead of telling us to tough it out and take some vitamin C.

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          You didn’t even read that, did you?

          H5N1 continually mutates, meaning vaccines based on current samples of avian H5N1 cannot be depended upon to work in the case of a future pandemic of H5N1. While there can be some cross-protection against related flu strains, the best protection would be from a vaccine specifically produced for any future pandemic flu virus strain. Daniel R. Lucey, co-director of the Biohazardous Threats and Emerging Diseases graduate program at Georgetown University, has made this point, “There is no H5N1 pandemic so there can be no pandemic vaccine.”[34] However, “pre-pandemic vaccines” have been created; are being refined and tested; and do have some promise both in furthering research and preparedness for the next pandemic.[35] Vaccine manufacturing companies are being funded to increase flexible capacity so that if a pandemic vaccine is needed, facilities will be available for rapid production of large amounts of a vaccine specific to a new pandemic strain.[36]

          There is no guarantee that any “pre-pandemic” vaccines will work.

          But then, you think you can vaccinate against bacteria…

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              25 minutes ago

              No. No you can’t. Again, you really do not understand how any of this works. Pneumonia isn’t even a cause, it’s a symptom. I can be caused by fungi, viruses or bacteria. Saying you can vaccinate against pneumonia is like saying you can vaccinate against a runny nose. That’s literally not how anything works.

              But please do keep digging.