• merari42@lemmy.world
    1103·
    3 days ago

    Now, if the Americans are being too obnoxious with us Europeans about tariffs or Greenland, we only need to resort to the classic European strategy of gifting them a smallpox infested blanket to deal with the Americans.

  • TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee
    47·
    3 days ago

    Does anyone notice that a ton of food recalls were being announced last year right up till his order shutting down communication of some of the Alphabets?

    Buy food really really carefully from now on.

  • takeda@lemm.eeEnglish
    41·
    3 days ago

    And covid was pretty much why he lost in 2020 …

    If we won’t have another pandemic in next 4 years, we will be really lucky.

    • zephorah@lemm.ee
      10·
      3 days ago

      The flu is particularly bad this year, though definitely not pandemic level. It is knocking down and hospitalizing the elderly and those with crappy lungs.

      Also, it’s keeping our egg prices higher than meat right now. I can buy a family tray of deboned/skinned chicken breast for $10. 18 eggs: $12. Which is crazy. If COVID pricing is any indicator of things to come, egg prices will stay higher than meat.

      Flu is a fickle, ever changing, ever mutating virus. So, it’s possible. It’s also why King picked flu for his captain trips. The mutation thing made his story plausible.

      • Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world
        4·
        3 days ago

        Edit: whoopsies. The way my comments were formatted I erroneously thought you were talking about bird flu, not the regular flu. Dumb mistake on my end

        Okayyyy just going to stop you there. Bird flu is NOT knocking down and hospitalizing the elderly and those with crappy lungs. There are only 67 confirmed cases, almost all of them are from people working directly with the animals, almost all of them are very mild, and there’s no evidence of human-human transmission.

        I’m all for watching this and being cautious, but I’m also obligated to call out (even well intentioned) misinformation when I see it.

      • AA5B@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 days ago

        I got influenza a and have never had it so bad. While it was really only one day of the worst symptoms and I got Tamiflu to knock it down, itjust hit the threee week mark and the cough is not going away

      • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net
        103·
        3 days ago

        We can’t have cases if we don’t count or report them, duh.

        Tap for /s

        /s
        I hate that this is needed.

        • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
          316·
          3 days ago

          /s is not needed. It’s obvious you were sarcastic

          You just look stupid with the tap for s thing.

  • pyre@lemmy.world
    31·
    2 days ago

    not related to the original point but the method: this is a terrible image. it depicts stopping something as a domino effect, which is pretty much the opposite, and then a hand stopping that stopping action. it’s convoluted and the sentiment could’ve been relayed in much better ways.

  • HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world
    6·
    3 days ago

    Can’t we change this so it’s not up to any one person?

    Mildly surprised we didn’t fix that after the last time Trump covered up the severity of covid

    • BenLeMan@lemmy.world
      3·
      3 days ago

      It isn’t. Without the stacked Supreme Court and the majority in Congress he would be considerably less powerful.

      Then again, as the leader of the executive branch he could defy them like his infamous idol, “King” Andrew Jackson, did.