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What's got me worried is whether long-term damage from COVID will make people more vulnerable to the inevitable bird flu pandemic. That could be a one-two punch for mass death because you know there will never be any pandemic mitigation ever again.
Not only is it going to make people more vulnerable, like it's doing for every other outbreak of opportunistic infections we're seeing, it will also contribute to an increase in the spread. Mass immune dysregulation is going to absolutely fuck humanity.
That's a good point - COVID might even be what allows bird flu to achieve human-human transmission, since an opportunistic animal-human transmission could allow for it to incubate in a large number of human hosts until it gets the mutations it needs to make the jump.
Yeah, shit's been keeping me up at night for years.
Virology class made it seem like the pandemics were coming, not a matter of if but when. Here we are and handling it poorly.
Yeah feels like capitalism is just speed running all the endings.
I think all the people dropping dead as society collapses will help to mitigate the spread somewhat