Bird flu could become a human pandemic. How are countries preparing?
Bird flu could become a human pandemic. How are countries preparing?

Bird flu could become a human pandemic. How are countries preparing?

Wealthy nations are purchasing vaccines against H5N1 influenza and boosting surveillance, but there are concerns that low-income countries will be left behind.
Spoiler: they're not.
We spent all our public health goodwill on COVID. A sizable portion of the population will never accept any further restrictions for public health reasons. A smaller but still concerningly large portion will not get any new vaccines because of this.
We went into debt with public health goodwill about 3 months into COVID
I don't know, I'm sure we can be doing more but it seems like there is at least vaccine development and such starting pretty early so that seems positive to me.
There's no development needed. We got a vaccine as this is not a new strain. Flu vaccines just in general aren't that great, so you need good coverage and enough doses. You can probably tell where I am going with this, I am not sure any country is procuring or producing enough vaccines for the worst case scenario.
Alright......but, have you not been paying attention the past 4 years? Half this country (USA) REFUSES to get vacinated. I feel like at this point earth has just had enough of humans. So now it's like "ok, covid killed 1 million of them. Lets do that.....again."
And here's the thing, humans as a collective don't learn. There are comics from the early 1900s making fun of the people who refuse to wear masks to help against an often forgotten about global pandemic that killed like 20% of people globally. Your body would turn blue, because your insides filled with fluids, and you literally drown from with inside your own body. Morgues and hospitals were overflowing with bodies. People still refused to wear masks, and take medicine.
Now I don't trust these precautions to work, until they are vast and manditory. I'm at the point where people need to be treated like children. Actually thats not true. 4 years ago when the vaccine for came out, my niece was 8 years old. She got the vacine of her own decision, and said "that was nothing!". Which is true.
So basically I think some children are more mature than vast swarms of the general public, and this means simply releasing a vaccine isn't NEARLY enough.