by Kit Knightly, Off Guardian:
We haven’t published anything about bird flu since June. There hasn’t been much to say. Nevertheless, I still regularly comb through journals and news sites, ensuring we don’t miss anything potentially important.
During one such search yesterday evening I found this article in the journal Science, its title asking simply:
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Why hasn’t the bird flu pandemic started?
…and, you know what, that’s a good question. Why hasn’t the bird flu pandemic started?
Not literally, of course. The bird flu “pandemic” won’t ever really start. If or when it is declared it will be a lie, just like Covid.
The question is why haven’t they started the big roll out yet?
That is obviously the plan after all.
The establishment has been signposting “the next pandemic” since before Covid sidled off the world stage. “Pandemic preparedness” has been a buzz phrase at all the intergovernmental panels and UN summits for at least two years. All the indications were that bird flu was the anointed successor.
But it’s all come to nothing so far.
Bird flu hasn’t become “the next pandemic”, it hasn’t become really anything at all, it’s barely even grazed the major news cycle.
Instead, the story has been stuck in a strange holding pattern, circling around with dire warnings of imminent danger, only to swoop away from the runway before its wheels touch down.
A pot that never boils despite the fact nobody’s really watching.
Why hasn’t the bird flu pandemic happened yet? What are they waiting for?
Well, Donald Trump, apparently, amongst other things.
That’s isn’t speculation, it’s definite messaging. It looks as if some sort of narrative about Trump failing to do enough, or the right things to handle the “crisis” might be in the offing.
Earlier today, MSNBC ran the headline:
Why the threat of bird flu makes Trump’s transition problematic – Could an unqualified public health leadership team deal with a new pandemic?
Mother Jones thinks “Avian Flu Could Define Trump’s Second Presidency”, the Nation asks simply “Will There Be a Bird Flu Epidemic Under Trump?”, AXIOS claims Trump’s potential bird flu response “raises alarms”.
NOTUS is already explaining why Trump’s planned mass deportations will make bird flu worse.
On November 26th, a guest article in the New York Times headlined “I Ran Operation Warp Speed. I’m Concerned About Bird Flu”, which opens:
As Donald Trump gets ready to return to the White House on Jan. 20, he must be prepared to tackle one issue immediately: the possibility that the spreading avian flu might mutate to enable human-to-human transmission.
