RantWoman recommends that people, especially cat people take a break from multiple strands of human insanity and focus on care of cats and other animals.
Uh, actually we are not necessarily taking a complete break from human insanity so a few tips before the video.
--RantWoman has a friend from high school who is now an infectious disease doctor. So far she is pretty blase about bird flu in humans. Her advice: stay up to date on flu and COVID shots. A tiny number of people have gotten bird flu due to work exposure for example to raw milk. There is still no evidence, though, of human to human transmission.
--Digressing to the price of eggs, NPR reported recently that there is a vaccine against bird flu for chickens. So far it is not widely used because external buyers are resistant to buying products affected by the vaccines. On the other hand, if the President is going to go bananas about a trade war and tariffs, vaccinating chicken flocks could end the need to cull flocks and get the level of egg production up to a point that MAYBE the price of domestically produced eggs would come down.
But now cat tips, with an inventory of all the other species that have gotten bird flu.
And, at the end, STRONG note for the interviewer who is into raw food that maybe he will need to rethink that.
Also, look in the notes for more resources.
PS. This is RantWoman's "light reading" for the night.
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