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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Public Health@mander.xyz · 3 months ago

New coronavirus discovered in Chinese bats sparks alarm

www.newsweek.com

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New coronavirus discovered in Chinese bats sparks alarm

www.newsweek.com

Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Public Health@mander.xyz · 3 months ago
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The virus binds to humans in a similar way to the virus that causes COVID-19.

Journal source : https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)00144-8

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  • Iheartcheese@lemmy.world
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    Yeah sure why not

    • peregrin5@lemm.ee
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      At this point, I welcome it.

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        Yeah, RFK was already sworn in, so we are ready /s

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        Excuse to stay indoors and lose my sleep wake cycle? Sure. Last one was spent on PoE. Now 2 is out… Timely…

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      i’m always behind on trends. haven’t had the last one yet.

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      deleted by creator

      • univers3man@lemmy.world
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        Okay, Franz Ferdinand

      • Texas_Hangover@sh.itjust.works
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        Good luck!

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    • Franklin@lemmy.ca
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      preventable fatalities!

  • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    It’s never a bad time to start masking in public.

    • ignirtoq@fedia.io
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      I never stopped. The pandemic never ended. People just got tired of acknowledging it and left the vulnerable to fend for themselves.

      • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        I stopped masking in public very briefly when they were saying it was okay after getting double vaxxed. Waited the proper amount of time for immunity to kick in and then some, and I immediately got COVID 🥲

        Fool me once, etc. I’m never doing that shit again, and it’s a little disturbing to me how little people care about others’ health or their own. You’d think naked self interest would get people masking if empathy doesn’t, but apparently not.

      • pezhore@infosec.pub
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        Same. And to the best of my knowledge I’m still a COVID virgin (unless I was asymptomatic).

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          I worked retail for a good portion of it and somehow never got it. I did get swung at by a customer who thought I was hiding toilet paper in the back though.

        • imvii@lemmy.ca
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          If I didn’t test for it when I had it, I wouldn’t have known I had it. I was pretty much just tired for a couple days. Spent a day in bed.

          Hell, I do that 3-4 times a year anyway.

      • Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world
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        Covid never ended; my boyfriend just tested positive last week. And it won’t end since it’s a mutating virus. But it’s nowhere near as deadly as initial variants, and the curve flattened a long time ago. I wouldn’t still call it a pandemic.

        • imvii@lemmy.ca
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          My girlfriend and I are fully vaccinated. Have been since day one.

          I got Covid once about 2.5 years ago. I barely noticed. I was feeling punky and tired and my girlfriend said I should take a covid test. It was positive. I spent one day in bed because I was so tired, but the next day I was better. Never had a cough, no fever I noticed. A slight body ache.

          A week later the girlfriend got it. She had a fever, bad cough, spent 4-5 days in bed. It took her 2-3 weeks to shake it and not feel tired all the time. She had a lingering cough for a couple months.

          I haven’t had it (or noticed I had it) again. She hasn’t either.

          I kind of think of Covid as being the new flu. You get your shots for it, hopefully the formula matches the strains floating around. It’s the new normal.

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            Yeah, exactly. Get your shots, take precautions, but live life.

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    RFK will start importing them.

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      Raw bat milk mmmm

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      He’ll bite the head off like Ozzy Osbourne. Most metal politician. I hate life.

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    Can we have a virus that only affect those that don’t believe in the virus? 🤔

    Unfortunately the last one mainly affected those that were actually considerate towards our fellow humans.

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      I dunno about “mainly.” We definitely lost way too many good people, but there were plenty denying covid was real while being put on a ventilator.

      But yes, I agree. We desperately need a version that only infects the R gene.

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    RFK Jr announced a new program to give underprivileged kids pet bats. Due to the demand, many are expected to come from China, but will not be affected by tariffs.

    Don’t worry, everything will work out as planned.

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    There’s probably thousands of coronavira in different animals just waiting to give us their love.

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      Especially bats. They have more viruses than an average family computer

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        What if we accelerate climate change to make bats go extinct? Some Thanos level used-the-stones-to-kill-the-stones shit

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      or just don’t mess with the bats?

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      Vira, that’s funny.

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        I guess the correct plural is virii or viruses?

        (Phone still underlines that first one hmm)

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          That’s a common misconception, vira or viruses is correct.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_form_of_words_ending_in_-us#Virus

          https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/virus#English

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    Now the real question is, if you fart in those suits do you have time to enjoy it or does it get expelled directly?

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      It would have cost you nothing to not post this.

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    It lacks context, but they aren’t just stumbling on the bat viruses. They look for them. China has the best virus hunters in the world and they spend all their time specifically hunting for weird bat viruses to take back to the lab. There are hundreds (thousands?) Of bat viruses that have been collected, cataloged, and experimented on in China, at the WIV and other labs.

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    We are so fucked.

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    Yess!! Let’s go already!!!

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      My body is ready.

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    Like the last one that came from a bat?

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      Yes the last one came from bats (COVID), and the one before that (MERS), and the one before that (SARS)

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        Bats and camels for MERS.

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    How long did it take for the Spanish flu to start taking down people in their prime?

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    Not again!!

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