US "underprepared" for bird flu outbreak, epidemiologists warn
www.newsweek.com
"The U.S. is underprepared for bird flu because we have not learned our lessons from COVID," a public health policy expert said.

In short we’ve learned nothing, done nothing, and will be caught flat again. If you’re not ready, get ready, because no one is coming to save you.

    • Hackworth@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      6 months ago

      It seems like people are just ready to give up on civilization. Return to monke, I guess. Perhaps A.I. will go to the stars in our stead.

      • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
        4·
        6 months ago

        And Elon Musk will take it there! ™ In his own head at least, and the minds of anyone gullible enough to fund it, if only those darn spaceships would stop blowing up and work right - maybe he should have paid his workers perhaps?:-P

        • IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
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          6 months ago

          The exploding spaceships isn’t really a problem. That’s kind of the intention of the testing process. The way NASA does things, where everything is meticulously tested and nothing can fail ever, works, but it’s slower and more expensive. Destructive testing is faster, and has the benefit of possibly revealing failure modes you didn’t forsee.

          • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
            1·
            6 months ago

            I mean… explosive testing sounds even more expensive though, bc you cannot reuse the same components? Also, where does the need to do a rush job come in - if something takes a decade, then what’s so bad about waiting a decade? The point about total cost is well taken though.

            We probably will agree that each have their merits, and a little bit of both could actually go a long way - like a fast-moving alpha stage vs. a more stable beta model.

            Unfortunately from everything I’ve read (admittedly not much) I thought the US government has gone virtually all-in on the Musk train, with little funding leftover for additional models. Then again, space isn’t really a prioritization at all right now, compared to e.g. Ukraine, Gaza, Climate Change, infrastructure, inflation, etc., so that too makes some amount of sense.

    • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      At this point the remaining shredded tatters of democracy are necessary but insufficient to dealing with the challenges we currently face. Though e.g. Germany seems to be doing quite well, so it may be the particular implementation of rather than the entire theory of democracy that has gone off the rails.