it's more like 28% according to farmers, but the FDA requires you to kill the entire flock. "I wonder why eggs got so expensive???"

 

Egg prices rose 60% in 2022. One farm group claims it's a 'collusive scheme' by suppliers

Egg prices soared to historic levels in 2022, and one farmer-led advocacy group is alleging the trend is due to price fixing by leading producers.

www.cnbc.com

 

Sounds like great justification to continue killing our food supply! You know, for our "safety".

 

That's exactly what they are doing. That's why they are killing off cattle, and meat farms of any types, and exploding meat processing plants. You will eat the bugs.

 

Leaders across the globe flood us with non-stop lies. It's very frustrating.

 

Sadly, all our "experts" have been politicized and prostituted themselves to serve a political narrative and the not the objective science actually focused on public safety.

It's been a long time since I took any government expert or academic at face value; there's always a political angle unfortunately. Our government constantly needs fear of a new crisis every few months to distract from their corruption or ineptitude. Science, much like journalism, is on the path of becoming extinct.

ROCK6

 

I guess the government would like us to put on our fear masks again. This is getting tiresome.

 

The WHO considers H5N1 '' Worrysome''. That's concerning enough for me, especially at 53% mortality for humans.

 

Remember when COVID was 74% mortality? Yeah, I'm eating raw chicken and gravy made from chicken feet in infected farms. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice? Not gonna happen.

 

From the OP’s linked article: “There have 873 human H5N1 cases since 2003, but an estimated 53 percent have been fatal.”

Lets break that down;
462 people died over the past ten years.
Or on average 46 people per year have died from H5N1

It’s estimated the world population is 8 billion.

So during a 12 month period, 46 out of 8 billion people will die from H5N1.

I’ll take my chances…….

 

Estimated? Is that a covid estimate? You know, had H5N1 died in a car crash.....

 

From the source given
"There have 873 human H5N1 cases since 2003, but an estimated 53 percent have been fatal."
462 died in 20 years.
Most of you didn't seem the least bit concern when 10 times that many died from coivd in 48 hours.
Oh and egg prices are up because they found out you WILL pay $7 for a dz eggs. Don't look for the price to drop anytime soon, but you will have stories like this to keep you entertained.

 

oops……..thanks for the correction!

So that should say, “So during a 12 month period, 23 out of 8 billion people will die from H5N1”

I’m liking my chances even more!!!

 

the title is click bait........

 

Chick bait,it's about birds.

 

as in ... HUMANS suffer a 53% MORTALITY rate from the virus

 

MS 24,

I am curious.

In your country and here in US, do you know if the health insurance companies changed criteria on their policy contracts to address this 53 % ?

Here in Lord Fairfax's upstart colony, Virginia, my health insurance company has not addressed this. Otherwise, there's be so much junk mail arriving here ......

 

I'm believing salon clickbait as much as Faux news.

 

it is concerning that it seems to be jumping to mammals, which in time means a jump to the human population. will it still have such a high mortality rate when that happens, probably not ... if it kills the host, it can not continue on, so nature has a way of working that out. not that it won't be bad, but we're talking about several mutations before it is in the next flu cycle and they have plenty of time to whip up a new jab for it.

as an aside, I recall seeing news on Covid when it was hitting Italy as a first major spread out of China, and they were reporting a fatality rate of 7%, which early on may have been accurate since they had zero idea how to treat it. at least they sure made it seem that way, like no idea at all what to do, and shortly there after basically everything and schools were shut down, and I also remember Trump saying 15 days to stop the spread. I know a lot of people who did get messed up, or took a dirt nap from the early versions of Covid, so - poo poo the response as much as you want, they really did prevent a lot of people from getting really sick or dead, well -except for the nursing home patients who were basically the most vulnerable and basically all given the diseasy by Cuomo, but aside from insanity like that, they slowed the spread and most people got less dangerous versions. I do wonder if there have been any class action suits based on Coumo signing that order sending Covid patients to nursing homes, instead of to the massive giant floating hospitals that were sent to NY and went unused. Seems like a peculiar decision.

 

My chickens are laying great. We eat eggs everyday and right now my 4 dogs are getting 3 eggs each daily including 1 eggshell each daily. I just checked Walmart and prices haven’t gone up. All my chickens are alive and healthy. So are we people and the dogs.

 

Eggs were 1.99/dozen. Are they still 1.99/dozen in your town? They're 5.99/dozen here.

 

Another reason is that eggs from Mexico are being stopped at the border. The reason has been stated is that there is no way to tell if the eggs are infected. However, they seem to have no problem with illegal aliens coming across the border and not checking to see if they are infected with anything. On a side note, has anybody ever seen the film "Contagion"?

 

Yeah, pretty good movie.

 

I am particularly careful with covid because I am immune compromised, diabetic and history of cancer. But I am not concerned with bird flu because of minimal human infection and spread is not human to human but by exposure to infected birds.
Not to say that could not change, the Spanish flu was h1n1 bird flu.

 

I just wonder…by killing off all the birds regardless of infection…did they wipe out the genetics that may have been resistant or immune?

Maybe the smart thing would have been to quarantine, let it run its course, and then see if the survivors were special, or just lucky.

I mean…that’s what they did with Covid and humans, right?

 

You have a very interesting speculation on the prior genetics-and an interesting theory to ponder.

 

I don't believe in bird flu
Here is why.
It stands to reason I should see more dead wild birds than in the past.
I dont...Have You?
I mean I'm not looking to see millions of dead birds, but say
10 week in my travels.
Ya i see that many flat on the road bit we don't count them.

Seriously, has any one see a sign
25 percent even of wild birds dying?
Ya me either

 

It stands to reason I should see more dead wild birds than in the past.
I dont...Have You?

Well, actually many waterfowl hunters have found many, many dead ducks & geese while hunting; and this is far from common. There are plenty of pictures of this on the "net" btw (or there were during open season)

First year I've worn gloves when cleaning wild birds btw.

 

No it affects/infects.........ready for it

BIRDS

I've raised chickens for about 50 years so yeah I've been in a few chicken houses.

The reason they are so strict is because ......wait for it - to try to prevent spreading disease from one flock to other flocks....

BTW wild birds do not need to "get inside" , their crap, urine loose feathers etc. etc. etc. only need to be introduced , kinda like catching the flu from another infected person ya know

 

All that being said, yes bird flu is real (and not new)

However; I do believe they've killed millions of birds that they shouldn't have.

 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/bird-flu-keeps-spreading-beyond-birds-scientists-worry-it-signals-a-growing-threat-to-humans-too-1.6732287

 

While many millions of chickens have been killed or eliminated because of bird flu there are over 2 billion, that's 2,000 million chickens in the us. It hurts the farmers affected but it's not anywhere near 25%. Wild birds in my area have died in large numbers but again not huge percentages. Mostly juvenile geese but also swans.

 

Prices of everything in Canada have been more expensive that America. It's like you guys are getting 40 years of increases to catch up to ,and pass us. Eggs are about 3.00 USD a dozen here.

 

Things cost more in Canada because your socialist system requires more tax money to function, and because you imported a lot.

Under capitalism, there is no such thing as catching up with you...but then, we have less and less actual capitalism as time goes on, Covid put a big hurt on it..

Yes, for all the weeping and wailing here, food has long taken a bigger percentage chunk out of people's income in many other countries. Americans are just used to it being WalMart cheap and having money left for that cellphone and fancy pair of running shoes. If their budget now demands they choose just one or the other, well, times are really hard.

Some people are in real trouble, of course, and have even had to give up their gel manicures.

The worry though, is WHY is it this way. And the answer to that would be, it's all artificial. The insanity is based on things like media driving ridiculously obvious BS responses to covid, bureaucrats seeing a chance to build budgets, power and control, so called "scientists" acting like idiots, and politicians playing the games along with all of them for their own gain.

We were used to things being cheap because we could produce more than enough. Once the people calling the shots decided they could make more money with less investment and work using the scarcity side of the curve....well, things aren't going to go back unless we punnish thise that take advantage of us.
And that won't happen, we can't even punish the politicians that are abusing and raping California, Oregon and Washington.

 

Yes, for all the weeping and wailing here, food has long taken a bigger percentage chunk out of people's income in many other countries. Americans are just used to it being WalMart cheap and having money left for that cellphone and fancy pair of running shoes. If their budget now demands they choose just one or the other, well, times are really hard.

Some people are in real trouble, of course, and have even had to give up their gel manicures.

 

H5N1 is a serious issue and it has been known about for decades. For decades it has only infected those dealing with birds in some way shape or form.

That leaves out 90% plus of the people in the USA.

I'm not worried. Yes H5N1 is deadly but it has not shown that it is airborne or catchy to the greater population of Americans.