Remember during the bird flu outbreaks in China and our media took every opportunity to fear monger with it? Pretty quiet from them for the last, what, at least 8 months this has been progressing.

one ticket to the sun please

Reminder to mask, both for COVID and for this when it inevitably gets human-human transmission.

I posted the following - I dunno when. A couple weeks ago? It was gallows humor post for obvious reasons. In any case - I couldn't get it out of my mind for about four days. Then I forgot about it. I didn't even remember it. I saw it in a Bluesky thread.

I wonder how much more time of gallows humor we have until sheer terror arrives. Months?

I think it's - cough - safe to say we are reaching the ｃ／ｎｅｗｓ ＋ ｃ／ｄｏｏｍｅｒ ｓｉｎｇｕｌａｒｉｔｙ where a lot of news is both.