Braid and Limbo were my faves. More games like these please
protist
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There sure are a lot of absurd pseudoscientific claims on that site. Dandelions are great to eat, but they're not miracle drugs like this woman is trying to sell you on
Jorge Glad seems genuinely corrupt and likely belongs in prison. Mexico probably would've handed the guy over after fully evaluating his asylum claim. Ecuador made a serious mistake breaking in to the Mexican Embassy, imo. Looks like Nicaragua followed Mexico in breaking off diplomatic ties with Ecuador too
I can only assume you're not referencing this article in your rant, because the guy responsible for this one is under criminal indictment for it
It feels like you're picking quotes from articles that are lacking context. Yes, the US has a stockpile of several hundred thousand H5N1 vaccines, and no, that wouldn't cover everyone, but the capacity exists to ramp up production quickly and have hundreds of millions of doses available to the US public within 3-4 months.
Yes, producing 4-8 billion doses of any vaccine is going to take time. Obviously the country that develops, tests, and manufactures a new vaccine is going to fund production for its own people first. That "~~elite~~" dig is just not necessary.
It's already been developed, it would just need to be produced. The timeline on mass producing a flu vaccine is a matter of a few months since the infrastructure to produce hundreds of millions of doses each year already exists
You can absolutely bet this strain is being accounted for in the annual flu vaccine that will be released in the fall
Because it's been transmitted to humans over a thousands times over the past 20 years, and this upswing isn't particularly worse than previous outbreaks, it's just in the news more because it's happening in the US. There have been massive avian flu outbreaks before in other countries
The mortality rate is high, but the sample is also heavily skewed toward low income, rural farming populations in developing countries like Indonesia, Egypt, and Cambodia, where outbreaks of 10-30 cases are not uncommon. Survival rates among the few cases in the US and Europe have been 100%, with one death in Canada
I took 5 seconds to look it up, and the name is an amalgam of the founders' parents' names