• Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    There’s generally an inverse relationship between contagiousness and deadlines. By the time it mutates enough to spread between people, it’s unlikely it’ll be much worse than COVID.

    • Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
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      8 days ago

      The thing is, in this case you can get infected from ingesting cow milk from a cow that was infected. Once it gets into our food supply it can cause something like a flu bomb that’s going to kill a lot of people at once.

      Vegans might have a better chance of surviving in this case.

      • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.world
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        8 days ago

        We just test the cows so we’ll spot it quickly and hopefully it won’t spread.

        The threat is a pathogen that either we don’t even know is spreading, or we don’t know how it is spreading. A mutated H5N1 for example.

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          But if we test, then maybe we’d have to not produce milk from positive cows for a short amount of time. Then someone might find it a little bit difficult to get milk for their morning cereal, and that would be a minor inconvenience.