What would you expect in a country where “We drink raw milk” is the new “we don’t wear masks”?
I have been trying to get used to pasteurized milk… It’s just not the same man. Give it to me RAW.
What are you, a time traveller from 1859?
Nah, his milk doesn’t contain enough plaster of Paris, asbestos and starch to be from back then
The government would literally do anything to stop this short of shutting down factory farms that caused this mess in the first place.
What’s been the outcome of the people catching it? Covid was pretty immediate on how people were being hospitalized and eventually dying.
Well based on the last one that happened not good. We are in the be smart don’t drink raw milk phase
If it gets bad because of dumb people it could go like about this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu
Have we seen cases of humans getting it yet or nah?
Humans getting it? Yes, from farm animals. Humans getting it from other humans? Not yet, but I wouldn’t bet on that staying the case forever.
There are two aspects that make this different from COVID. One is that the mortality rate is much higher: near 50%, whereas COVID was around 1-3%. That’s the bad difference. The good difference is that it’s a flu variant, and we’ve studied flu variants for a very long time. I’ve heard there’s already a vaccine, but I haven’t verified that claim from any reputable health organization.
So if people actually follow health advice from officials, this could be handled much better than COVID. But if they don’t and they get it, it’s a coin flip if they die. And people are already doing things like drinking more raw milk because the CDC has identified the virus as being in raw milk from infected farms, so draw your own conclusions.
My conclusions are thusly.
I never have nor will I ever drink raw milk.
Also don’t hang out with any nutters that are so fanatic that they would drink raw milk to prove some sort of point
As a Frenchman I’m torn on this, I don’t drink raw milk but damn all the cheese is made from raw milk, we’re screwed
Real cool the person suggesting Pont I’Eveque to my while in traveling through France.
I have once, on a tiny family farm in my childhood. It’s nothing special and I preferred the processed version personally. Truly do not see the hype.
I don’t think we have seen human to human transmission confirmed yet, but that could be due to not testing enough to be able to know.
That’s fair, terrifying but fair. Thanks for the knowledge
