WHO states "avian flu not a problem but we must prepare"

Expect another substack later today. I now find myself divided, on one side I have been tracking both Avian Flu, and African Swine Fever for almost 3 years, and heavily criticizing every organization involved in tracking and downplaying these events.

Yet, it has been pretty clear for almost 2 years now that they will use any excuse, engage in nefarious tactics (from merely nudging to full-on cognitive warfare), and threats of every kind to push their agenda. The news cycle is already engaging, consciously or not, on these tactics.

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While I doubt this is “the big one”, clearly there is a basis for concern, especially from the perspective that I do not trust any of the parties involved to not actively make the situation worse by using Gain of Function. But the major problem here is how the WHO decided to deal with this, the same response as SARS-CoV-2.

Antivirals, which are ok, and vaccines.

The persistent threat of Avian Flu

In the substack above you can read about how H5 strains and H5N1 emerged from reassortment (mixture) with H5N8, which is quite literally a byproduct of using a vaccine with poor neutralization. Given the current immunological dynamics at play, at different levels, the rather significant global shift in microbiomes, fueling the emergence of immune evasive, highly pathogenic by using what is entailed to be a failed attempt of mitigation from the start isn’t the best of ideas if the goal is to protect human life.

There have been a couple of mass death events in mammals following infection with H5N1. As of now, seems this specific strain burns through mammals too fast for sustainable transmission and adaptation, but if the virus evolved by either natural or human (crappy interventions) to achieve an equilibrium between pathogenicity and transmission, it can become a rather significant problem.

For now, I will attempt to keep an eye on both aspects of this event, the virus, and the propaganda machine steaming up. Well, as it was once said.

Never let a good crisis go to waste.

Appreciate each person who chose to support this Substack so far, and the people who share it !

See you later today, most likely.