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  At least the ones who don’t get clipped by wind mills.
context: Meanwhile, my family thinks Biden is pressing the "raise egg prices" button in the oval office. >
  
  I truly believe most of the older population in the US is experiencing late stage lead poisoning. >
  
  Honestly, this is the most reasonable explanation anyone has been able to come up with as to why an entire generation that once consisted of brilliant engineers and skilled laborers has suddenly turned their brains off and completely lost their critical thinking skills. >
  
  They are also just entering the later stages of their life, which causes cognitive decline, which is likely exasperated by but is not a direct result of lead poisoning. >
  
  Not to be exasperating, but I think you mean exacerbated. >
  
  Go easy on him, maybe his brain is old and full of lead! >
  
  Jeez, where did this strain of Bird Flu come from? >
  
  That's Avian Flu in general 
  What about this strain? >
  
  It’s H5N1 so Southeast Asia. It’s enzootic(endemic, but not people) in the local bird population. >
  
  ... just how many major disease strains originate in South-East Asia????? >
  
  It's where all the fun stuff comes from! >
  
  Relevant, edited from a previous comment:
  Perhaps the biggest risk of disease concerning livestock and poultry is influenza A - the only influenza virus known to cause pandemics.[9]  It is hypothesized that every influenza virus that causes pandemics in humans is derived from avian influenza in aquatic birds.[10]  Normally this wouldn't be an issue for us.  The infected wild birds usually don't get sick, and the virus doesn't easily spread amongst humans.[11]  But industrialized animal agriculture has changed that.  One scientific review writes:
  
  Hosts such as swine and gallinaceous poultry that are favorable for transmission and efficient replication of both zoonotic and human viruses can serve as mixing vessels and pose the greatest risk for the development of novel reassortments that can replicate competently in humans.[12]
  
  In other words, livestock and poultry are great at making it easier for viruses to spread amongst humans.  As to why this is, one author explains:
  
  ...virtually every effort to further industrialize broiler [chicken] biology has resulted in the emergence of new risks and vulnerabilities. Intensive confinement combined with increased genetic uniformity has created new opportunities for the spread of pathogens. Increased breast-meat yield has come at the expense of increased immunodeficiency.[13]
  
  It is likely that animal agriculture enabled the 1957 Asian Flu, 1968 Hong Kong Flu,[14] bird flu,[15] and the 2009 swine flu.[16]  Of these, bird flu is the cause for most concern.  In past outbreaks, the case-fatality (CF) rate was 60 percent, although one study suggests that if it became a larger pandemic, it would have a median CF rate of approximately 23.5 percent.[17]  It is thought that the 1918 Spanish Flu may have infected one-third of the global population and had a CF rate of 2.5 percent.[18]  If bird flu were to mutate in such a way that it was anywhere near as contagious as Spanish Flu, with a CF rate almost 10 times higher than Spanish Flu, the results would be apocalyptic.  As two authors wrote in a WHO publication:
  
  We can't scare people enough about H5N1 [bird flu].[19]
  
  References >
  
  I had swine flu in 2009 and it fucking sucked lmao >
  
  u/susinfluenza why'd you have to fuck this man up >
  
  …. The more chances to make a more complete zoonotic jump and spread between humans. Yay. >
  
  This is what keeps me up at night. >
  
  The Black Death would be quaint afterwards. >
  
  That’s it, I’m getting a chicken, screw the HOA >
  
  Got some bad news about the price of chicken feed...
  But you can try using it as a living, squawking compost pile too.  Sometimes they survive. >
  
  Chicken feed is still 50 cents a pound. I spend like $30 a month feeding my chickens and get 3-4 eggs a day. >
  
  I shall name my chicken Tina and feed her ham. Problem solved /s >
  
  They do, in fact, like ham. I’ve seen one of my girls have the audacity to take a ham bone from my pitty. My dog looked at me like “wtf?” >
  
  Chickens are tiny semi-domesticated dinosaurs. Land piranhas, in groups they can pick a carcass clean. Your poor pitty! >
  
  Oh for sure. I’ve seen my girls hunt mice and ground squirrels. 
  When I open their coop and they follow me around I may be guilty of pretending to be Chris Prat from Jurassic World. >
  
  This is the best thing I've read all week 😂 >
  
  Store here was selling store brand eggs for $4.50 a dozen. That's what I used to pay for the "nice" eggs. Even Aldi eggs were like $2.75. 
  Houston, we have a problem, and we're not doing anything about it. If this thing goes to humans, with the potential physical and immune system damage people have had from COVID/flu/etc, we're in for an interesting ride. >
  
  Paid $5.69 for a dozen today in northern Vermont. >
  
  It’s probably true for eggs. The US alone collectively eats some 8 billion eggs a year and are a staple for protein is just about every country. >
  
  i've taken my 12+ bird feeders down around my property so they aren't congregating in groups (still feed them, just scattering the feed)
  luckily my chickens are indoors for the winter and diverse enough (i have a few of every breed) that they're spread out pretty good in the coop/barns 
  while risk to song birds is low, and transmission to/from my chickens is therefore unlikely, i am still not fucking around
  i like my chickens, they actually make decent pets (not to mention the bug eating and the free eggs) >
  
  Can they get vaccinated for it? >
  
  left a message for my veterinarian re this - haven't heard back yet
  but i live pretty remotely (vets is nearly 50 mile round trip) and they're pretty busy being the only vet in a large rural farming area >
  
  Ah ok >
  
  Part of this is because we depend on egg farms that have thousands of hens instead of forty. Small farms are almost non-existent these days.
  I've seen a lot of local interest in raising hens locally. Turns out you can have up to three hens in the city of Buffalo, NY, but no roosters. >
  
  This news won't reach the front page until eggs are $100 a dozen.
  Even here on Reddit this has about 100 comments. The D&D thread has over 6,000 comments. They don't eat chickens or eggs? >
  
  There's so many food supply problems right now. We slipped into the beginning of the apocalypse without even noticing. >
  
  That's the way all civ collapses are that don't start with a meteor or super-volcano. No one notices the big changes and occasionally just notes the small ones until WHAM, suddenly it's, "What do you mean Rome burned to the ground? I had tickets to next month's Gladiator fights!" 
  That not to say that we're over the event horizon, but it's not far if we don't get our act together. But hey, we get to say that we saw the dawning of cel phones, home computers, bad VR and the birth of a new social construct via social media. >
  
  This is what bothers me there is a virus that compromises people's ability to judge risks. COVID damages people's executive function which is in some ways what makes us functional human beings. What even happens in 5 or 10 years time when significant proportions of the world have brain damage? >
  
  i'm sorry.. covid does what now? >
  
  If you're curious, just look up "Long COVID". At first people weren't sure it even existed, now there are plenty of published peer-reviewed papers that try to tackle the fact that a very substantial portion of our population may have permanent cognitive deficits due to COVID. >
  
  It's far from a universal symptom though. Not like the entire world (or at least, those who have had covid) will wake up one day and hardly be able to function. >
  
  It has far reaching consequences. Labor shortages is directly due to long covid keeping a million people out of the workforce (USA). Healthcare system will see a massive increase of aliments in the next decade. There will be a huge increase of heart problems, strokes, dementia, diabetes due to long covid. >
  
  Just bought eggs today $4 per 18 eggs carton. >
  
  $10 for 18 in California >
  
  Organic, free range, and/or non-GMO? I see more expensive eggs too but I buy whatever on sales. >
  
  cage free but its all Wal-Mart had. >
  
  People gonna hog the eggs like they hogged toilet paper >
  
  Letgo my eggos >
  
  If this mutated to spread to humans, it would make covid look like a joke. >
  
  Every year it jumps to humans >
  
  Every year? Where are you getting this from??? According to the CDC, Bird flu infections among people are rare. >
  
  Why doesn’t the industry vaccinate the poultry? >
  
  The birds don't want Bill Gates tracking them >
  
  I heard they recently were allowed back on Twitter #cluckforfreedom #redwhiteandcluck #Weaintcluckingaroundpelosi >
  
  Egg companies with record profits don’t look over here >
  
  I’m hoping to raise poultry again, though on a much smaller scale than I did before. A trio of hens would keep me quite happy. >
  
  Largest global bird flu outbreak in history SO FAR >
  
  That’s what “in history” means… >
  
  Okay but is it really worth deleting all the chickens and eggs if we aren’t even slowing it? >
  
  Meanwhile I just got back from the store where eggs are $2.39 a dozen and whole chickens on sale for $.99 per pound >
  
  Where do you live? I'm in Missouri, so close to a lot of chicken producing states and eggs were $5.12/dozen at Walmart. Smaller grocery stores were more. >
  
  Portland Oregon. I keep seeing all these posts and news about the avian flu and every week I'm expecting eggs to be expensive or empty but it hasn't happened yet. I usually shop at kroger stores. Guess I'm lucky for now. Chicken breast was $2.99 lb last week which is about as cheap as it gets anymore so I stocked up >
  
  Yeah, definitely stock up if you can. Last time I looked at Sam's club, a package with 6 boneless, skinless chicken breasts was over $13! And that was discounted because it getting near it's sell by date. >
  
  Industry prefer profit over prevention. >
  
  The whole thing is ~~foul~~ fowl. >
  
  This isn’t going to be cheep. >
  
  Egg- zactly >
  
  My favorite Vincent Price role >
  
  Well time to go eggless for breakfast I guess.  Ugh >
  
  It’s all fun and games until there’s a yogurt flu and then a granola flu >
  
  So a cow influenza and an oat blight? >
  
  It’s on my millennial strife bingo card! >
  
  someone is going to figure out how to produce eggs like how we're working on producing cultured meat and is going to make a mint.  growing and keeping alive a whole chicken just to get eggs seems like total madness, especially given how easily illness can ravage them. >
  
  I just found out about this today. My son didn't eat his scrambled eggs, and my wife was trying to save them for later, and I didn't understand why. >
  
  Obv didn't read the article, it's a malware outbreak. >
  
  People need to rely less on animal agriculture. Eggs are not necessary for human nutrition, and chickens on industrial farms are the most abused land animals there are. >
  
  People would literally rather kill all the wild birds then give up eating stupid eggs. >
  
  I’ve talked to some people that have farms around me… sounds like raccoons, coyotes, and foxes have made their way around the chicken coops around the area, which is also wiping out some local stock (central Oklahoma) >
  
  Is this how the virus spread?  I don't see chicken from one farm come to contact with other chicken at another farm.  Chicken are essentially quarantind. >
  
  Spread by wildlife and contaminated water >
  
  Heck yeah, now is the time to spring my cricket and grub protein business!
  /s >
  
  That's not bad idea.  Crickets and grubs are good sources of protein.  Easier to maintain and lots of cultures have them in their diets. >
  
  Wouldnt having your own chicken put you at the same risk of spreading the h5n1 strain? >
  
  Smaller, happier flocks are healthier flocks so no the risk is not equivalent. >
  
  Good to know I’m not contributing to this by being vegan. Sort your shit out world. Meat and pandemics or vegan and healthy, pretty easy choice. >
  
  There's an ad in the tube trains in London asking if the PM would go vegan for £1m.
  If it was for the rest of my life, I wouldn't go vegan for £1m. Bacon? Steak? Eggs? Milk? Flavoursome food? Nah. I think I'll keep them, thanks. >
  
  Ahhhh...I love being vegan.... >
  
  The way animals are treated it was just a matter of time before an epidemic decimated their population. >
  
  
  the result has been loss of income for farmers, and soaring prices for poultry and eggs – both essential sources of affordable protein.
  
  That last part isn't even true. >
  
  Eggs are a normally cheaper source of protein.  Denser protein source than veggies. >
  
  Chicken nuggets never looked so good. >
  
  Welp. Looks like the birds aren't real meme might become true. >
  
  I was part of a bird flu vaccine trial like 10 years ago, I wonder if it’s still any good? >
  
  Great.... I hope biocontrol is up to snuff or this is when it finally jumps to humans.... >
  
  Guys, maybe factory farming isn’t the solution >
  
  and people thought i was paranoid thinking covid was going to be as bad as it was and the first of a long line of shit hitting the fan to reshape society. >
  
  Have they tried social distancing or vaccines?