2. Watching the current scrambling response of many healthcare systems to H3N2 K, combined with the firmly embedded political and ideological resistance to masking, I can assure you all that if H5N1 goes human to human with a high CFR, we're in deep trouble as a species.

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😷The real scandal isn’t masks - it’s how many people need them and are denied cultural permission to use them without ridicule.

It shows a culture deeply rooted in ableism. Disabled people had reinforced (again) that adaptions are not normalised, they are stigmatised. /13

There’s more than one type of “living in fear”.

You can rationally be worried about a virus and take precautions… not really living in fear… more similar to putting up an umbrella in the rain.

Or irrationally avoid the whole topic and take no precautions & get soaked in the rain.