Capitalism vs. the bird flu

In today’s episode, we are talking about bird flu, but in Jamila Decoder road. Lauren Lever, who recently Write freedom About bird flu And how it has become a war forever, joins me in the show, and we will talk about the systems, structure and culture that may control bird flu – and those that may make it worse.

It is likely that you have heard about bird flu in the context of egg prices. Eggs are expensive and difficult to find now because bird flu has A problem started with the old offer and demandThe virus kills almost every chicken that affects it; Less number of chicken means fewer eggs, and less eggs mean higher prices. You will hear Lauren says It is a little more complicated than thatBut this is the primary form of it.

But bird flu is actually a little more dangerous than just supplying eggs. the first The death of the affirmative person associated with the virus It happened in January. Now, we face some uncomfortable questions without easy answers. Like how quickly the new breeds of bird flu, collectively known as H5N1 are spread, from birds to dairy cows and other animals, as well as the extent of killing these new strains between both birds and mammals, including humans.

If you are like me, you are starting to feel some uncomfortable feelings, and I am not wrong to feel it. There are some real echoes for Covid-19 here-and Trump Administration, with Robert Kennedy Junior as head of the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services, is not at all equipped to deal with a fast-moving pathogenic virus. Kennedy himself is an anti -accurate activist who wanders in unwanted science while giving up.

Only last week, Kennedy went Fox News One way to deal with the constant influenza outbreaks of birds is simply leaving them and killing all birds, a purely stupid idea for various reasons that Lauren will hear discussion. Certainly, it does not help on this on Thursday, a few days after Lauren’s talk and spoke with this episode, Kennedy Declare A significant decrease in the HHS workforce, with the demobilization of workers up to 10,000 employees in a move that Kennedy said was a “painful period” of the administration that would involve “more with less”. Moreover, after the epidemic and damage to the institutional confidence in all fields will make the task even difficult even to a trusted leader of our public health services.

But as I said, I wanted to talk about this in Decoder The frame, there is a great difference from Covid-19. Millions of dead birds represent millions of lost revenues, and if the virus becomes more deadly for dairy cows, this is more than money on the line. Therefore, if the government is not able to escalate the response, is the industry able to see this problem and solve it before it becomes worse?

The answer, as you might expect, is a loud sign, but as Lauren will hear explain, different parts of the market interact differently. Now, there is still time: scientists do not raise after the types of warnings that we have begun to see in the months before March 2020, when Kofid changed our lives forever.

But there is one very clear thing: bird flu will not only disappear, regardless of how much Kennedy might wish. We need to learn how to live with her and manage her. As long as we can get everyone on the same page, we may even fight it.

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