• tpihkal@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    The price of eggs has nothing to do with the president. Bird flu is literally the explanation.

    Over 41 million domestic birds have been culled in the past two months.

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      21 hours ago

      Yeah buddy we all know this. We knew it then. We knew he was lying. He promised he would lower the prices of eggs day one. He’s a liar. But he made the promise, so as stupid as is I’m going to keep holding him to it. I’mma keep bitching.

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      20 hours ago

      I mean. He is also taunting the NIH, CDC, and WHO. That’s gotta account for something, right?

      He does have some control there. I’m sure bird flu containment would be a bit better handled without kneecapping the CDC.

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        18 hours ago

        I agree that’s definitely true going forward, but has fucking with the CDC etc. for – jeezus, it’s only been three weeks – had time to have a material effect on the bird flu epidemiological trajectory yet?

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          16 hours ago

          Has the public humiliation of the standard-setters had an effect in 3 weeks?

          As someone who has been around OSHA, it usually only takes 20 minute after they disappear before things start changing for the worse

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            14 hours ago

            Yeah, but this is more about implementation of policy changes affecting the Rt of the virus, lag between the rate changing and the detection of that change in terms of actual measurements of the number of infections, etc. Even if Trump deliberately appointed somebody to send out an edict that poultry farms create the ideal conditions for the virus to spread as quickly as possible, there’s still some lag for that appointment to happen, for the edict to be communicated to the farmers, for them to implement it, and then even under those ideal conditions the virus still can reproduce only so fast.

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              13 hours ago

              You’re absolutely right, it would take way longer if they told them to create the ideal conditions to spread the disease. They did slightly something slightly different though, they said “we no longer care about this regulation” which gets people to start fucking things up quite a bit faster than “change the way you do this for this new regulation”

              You’re not wrong that they’re probably isn’t a measurable a difference yet, but I guarantee that it’s coming and it’s going to come hard