> All patients had recently eaten raw date-palm sap, which is also a food source for fruit bats and the main route of NiV spillover from bats to humans.
I hate the guy but why are we blaming him for people in Bangladesh eating sap?? Like this comment has nothing to do with the article or the science and is frankly distracting. We get it, the guy sucks.
So for every single piece of news we should relate it to the current US administration? Come on, we are no where near it spreading beyond Bangladesh at the moment so let’s focus the conversation a little.
There are 5 patients that have tested positive for it. 5. Stop making every post US centric. We should be discussing the science. It is exhausting to see how every post on Reddit has devolved into US politics. Reddit used to have much more productive conversations.
The US had the greatest soft power reach of any country in the entire world in a swath of fields. The cutting of health and science, as well as regulatory bodies and USAID will have ripple effects in ways we won’t fully understand for several more years, including the world’s ability to handle another pandemic. I WISH it was contained to within your own damn borders, but unfortunately the world embraced the US a bit too much only to be backstabbed. That’s why everything relates back to US politics - because the previous world order was setup that way.
Yeah, guys. Since when do US policies have an unbalanced effect on the rest of the world? No need to consider US likely responses since those ripples will definitely stay within US borders.
It’s largely off topic. You can talk about US polices in almost every thread with that logic. I don’t think US pandemic policies are having any effect on the 5 people in rural Bangladesh, come on.
Since half of all Reddit users are in the US, I recommend you start recruiting. I would honestly love other points of view be the majority. Right now, just going by demographics, half of all comments are going to be US-centric in obvious or subtle ways. And then, in part because there are more US voices by far in comparison to any other single culture, the misinformation is fire-hosed at US participants so that the largest Reddit population will be parroting it. And, of course, Reddit is pretty old and started as a US social media, and is still run from the US, so the very infrastructure of Reddit is going to have been designed around US ease-of-use and familiarity.
Please, do get other voices here. You must know, though, that telling a vocal majority to shut up and give other people a turn is pointless unless you have some additional way to influence that behavior.
I’m genuinely rooting for you, assuming you’re not from the US. And if you are, well, you’re kind of doing the same thing by speaking for them instead of just leaving them the space to speak.
You don't think there are problems with how humans have interacted with wildlife and wildlife habitats that have led to new and emerging diseases that can kill millions of people?
You don't think there are any problems with the recent mass defunding of sentinel labs/sites that work to rapidly identify emerging outbreaks before they become uncontainable?
You don't see the problem?
You're in the subreddit EverythingScience.
I'd recommend start by reading Spillover by David Quammen, who highlighted this issue over a decade ago.
And then in-depth articles about how the recent US funding cuts are affecting humanity's capacity to prevent future pandemics.
Yeah ofc. I mean it's not like Trump was elected by voters who had a choice to elect him or a candidate that wouldn't have implemented any of these pro-pandemic policies.
It's not like being involved in politics and activism can educate and inform voters so they realise voting for anti-science candidates is not a great idea if you don't want Covid 2.0.
Yep nothing you can do.
Like I said. Denialism never solved anything except making people feel better, until they don't, because they're dying from a pandemic that could have well been avoided with sensible public health measures.
Are you not looking forward to solitary confinement at home to project the old people who all flaunt the rules, don't wear masks, vote for Trump and refuse to admit they were wrong?
PurpleAkisGhost | 23 hours ago
Oh for fucks sakes not again
sweetica | 21 hours ago
What do you expect when Trump is in the white house?
Last time DJT was in the White House his administration ended with covid-19 and J6.
DJT loves to defund pandemic response teams, so get ready for round two of insane pandemic nonsense.
All because the most irresponsible, confused, corrupt, and evil bizarro president was somehow elected a second time.
It's my personal belief that DJT purposely ruins things, he's likely been told to do this from his puppet masters Putin and netanyahu.
danisanub | 17 hours ago
> All patients had recently eaten raw date-palm sap, which is also a food source for fruit bats and the main route of NiV spillover from bats to humans.
I hate the guy but why are we blaming him for people in Bangladesh eating sap?? Like this comment has nothing to do with the article or the science and is frankly distracting. We get it, the guy sucks.
IBeDumbAndSlow | 16 hours ago
Because his defunding will increase the chance of it becoming devastating in the states
danisanub | 15 hours ago
So for every single piece of news we should relate it to the current US administration? Come on, we are no where near it spreading beyond Bangladesh at the moment so let’s focus the conversation a little.
IBeDumbAndSlow | 15 hours ago
Oh god you are so right since we don't allow anyone from Bangladesh to travel to the USA...
danisanub | 15 hours ago
There are 5 patients that have tested positive for it. 5. Stop making every post US centric. We should be discussing the science. It is exhausting to see how every post on Reddit has devolved into US politics. Reddit used to have much more productive conversations.
Your username gave me a laugh.
fezzam | 8 hours ago
Breaking news deep space anomaly discovered! Find out how the us administration will make it ruin your life, tonight at 11. On space news now SNN
IBeDumbAndSlow | 6 hours ago
Yes! Give it to me!
resistelectrique | 5 hours ago
The US had the greatest soft power reach of any country in the entire world in a swath of fields. The cutting of health and science, as well as regulatory bodies and USAID will have ripple effects in ways we won’t fully understand for several more years, including the world’s ability to handle another pandemic. I WISH it was contained to within your own damn borders, but unfortunately the world embraced the US a bit too much only to be backstabbed. That’s why everything relates back to US politics - because the previous world order was setup that way.
danisanub | 5 hours ago
This still has nothing to do with 5 people in Bangladesh eating sap. But thanks I guess.
SkyFullofHat | 14 hours ago
Yeah, guys. Since when do US policies have an unbalanced effect on the rest of the world? No need to consider US likely responses since those ripples will definitely stay within US borders.
danisanub | 14 hours ago
It’s largely off topic. You can talk about US polices in almost every thread with that logic. I don’t think US pandemic policies are having any effect on the 5 people in rural Bangladesh, come on.
SkyFullofHat | 14 hours ago
Since half of all Reddit users are in the US, I recommend you start recruiting. I would honestly love other points of view be the majority. Right now, just going by demographics, half of all comments are going to be US-centric in obvious or subtle ways. And then, in part because there are more US voices by far in comparison to any other single culture, the misinformation is fire-hosed at US participants so that the largest Reddit population will be parroting it. And, of course, Reddit is pretty old and started as a US social media, and is still run from the US, so the very infrastructure of Reddit is going to have been designed around US ease-of-use and familiarity.
Please, do get other voices here. You must know, though, that telling a vocal majority to shut up and give other people a turn is pointless unless you have some additional way to influence that behavior.
I’m genuinely rooting for you, assuming you’re not from the US. And if you are, well, you’re kind of doing the same thing by speaking for them instead of just leaving them the space to speak.
rangeo | 18 hours ago
But New and improved!
Now with 87% more Encephalitis!
quad_damage_orbb | 17 hours ago
We've had first pandemic, yes, but what about second pandemic?
Nheea | 15 hours ago
Elevensies?
Yurastupidbitch | 22 hours ago
I believe I’ve seen this movie before.
tired-of-the-shit | 16 hours ago
Yeah contagion was a good movie
Technical_savoir | 21 hours ago
All the patients ate raw date palm sap
NotRemotelyMe1010 | 19 hours ago
This is the only hopeful part of this story
tobascodagama | 19 hours ago
Good thing diseases never, ever mutate to transmit more efficiently.
Technical_savoir | 18 hours ago
Good thing I don’t live in constant fear of that happening
BadahBingBadahBoom | 18 hours ago
Tbf if you have any familiarity with biology/virology/epidemiology you should have a healthy level of fear of that cos that risk isn't going away.
Technical_savoir | 17 hours ago
It will happen. That doesn’t mean I need to live in fear.
BadahBingBadahBoom | 17 hours ago
A healthy level of fear is definitely not stupid.
You don't have to let it consume you ofc but you should not pretend it does not exist.
Denial has a 0% success rate of fixing any problem.
Boring_and_sons | 14 hours ago
What do you mean? It fixed homelessness. There are no homeless. See?
Technical_savoir | 17 hours ago
I didn’t realize there was a problem here that needed fixing
BadahBingBadahBoom | 17 hours ago
You don't think there are problems with how humans have interacted with wildlife and wildlife habitats that have led to new and emerging diseases that can kill millions of people?
You don't think there are any problems with the recent mass defunding of sentinel labs/sites that work to rapidly identify emerging outbreaks before they become uncontainable?
You don't see the problem?
You're in the subreddit EverythingScience.
I'd recommend start by reading Spillover by David Quammen, who highlighted this issue over a decade ago.
And then in-depth articles about how the recent US funding cuts are affecting humanity's capacity to prevent future pandemics.
Technical_savoir | 17 hours ago
Guess what. There’s nothing you can do to change any of that.
BadahBingBadahBoom | 17 hours ago
Yeah ofc. I mean it's not like Trump was elected by voters who had a choice to elect him or a candidate that wouldn't have implemented any of these pro-pandemic policies.
It's not like being involved in politics and activism can educate and inform voters so they realise voting for anti-science candidates is not a great idea if you don't want Covid 2.0.
Yep nothing you can do.
Like I said. Denialism never solved anything except making people feel better, until they don't, because they're dying from a pandemic that could have well been avoided with sensible public health measures.
Xcoctl | 14 hours ago
Me when I'm incapable of learning from past experiences
Username524 | 18 hours ago
This research article is almost 2 months old.
Autumn1eaves | 10 hours ago
And the patients from the study in this article were sick in 2022-2023.
This isn’t a new pandemic, it’s just a study of how we have undetected diseases floating around.
Which we already knew, but this is confirming that yet again.
Random_182f2565 | 21 hours ago
It's going to happen again
quad_damage_orbb | 17 hours ago
Are you not looking forward to solitary confinement at home to project the old people who all flaunt the rules, don't wear masks, vote for Trump and refuse to admit they were wrong?
Random_182f2565 | 15 hours ago
No, I don't live in the USA.
costafilh0 | 19 hours ago
Poor bats. Always getting the blame.
ATheeStallion | 17 hours ago
Source: raw date palm sap. We already know how dangerous it is.
ihavebeenmostly | 20 hours ago
Here we go
DigitalHemlock | 22 hours ago
Stop fucking bats!
sovereignsekte | 21 hours ago
No.
JayMo15 | 20 hours ago
What does pleasuring myself with a long, wooden object have to do with anything!?
KillerInfection | 19 hours ago
Corked bats are against regulation, but a forked bat, on the other hand...
Massive_Dish_3255 | 7 hours ago
Oh no. Please no.
costafilh0 | 19 hours ago
Let me guess, there is some random lab which totally didn't leak it nearby?