Deep Thoughts about bird flu...

[The Tradition]

Don't you think it's counterproductive to kill all the chickens if bird flu is detected in the flock?

Wouldn't it be far better to let the flu run its course and then the survivors have immunity? Then we breed those chickens and hopefully increase genetic resistance to the flu for future egg-laying hens?

Have we not learned anything from the COVID panic? The virus is gonna do what it's going to do. It cannot be contained. Culling all the chickens isn't going to make the virus go extinct. We have to learn to live with it instead of doing things that don't work over and over again.

I'm not Anthony Fauci, nor am I a chicken farmer, but prove me wrong.

 

[WSC72]

Don't you think it's counterproductive to kill all the chickens if bird flu is detected in the flock?

Wouldn't it be far better to let the flu run its course and then the survivors have immunity? Then we breed those chickens and hopefully increase genetic resistance to the flu for future egg-laying hens?

Have we not learned anything from the COVID panic? The virus is gonna do what it's going to do. It cannot be contained. Culling all the chickens isn't going to make the virus go extinct. We have to learn to live with it instead of doing things that don't work over and over again.

I'm not Anthony Fauci, nor am I a chicken farmer, but prove me wrong.

Nothing personal, this is just the first deep thought that popped up

 

[Pinehawk]

The expensive countermeasures are worth it, only until we reach the point we can’t contain it.
Then it will run its course eventually, no matter what we do.
How long that takes, is how hard we try to slow it down.

 

[Tenacious E]

Don't you think it's counterproductive to kill all the chickens if bird flu is detected in the flock?

Wouldn't it be far better to let the flu run its course and then the survivors have immunity? Then we breed those chickens and hopefully increase genetic resistance to the flu for future egg-laying hens?

Have we not learned anything from the COVID panic? The virus is gonna do what it's going to do. It cannot be contained. Culling all the chickens isn't going to make the virus go extinct. We have to learn to live with it instead of doing things that don't work over and over again.

I'm not Anthony Fauci, nor am I a chicken farmer, but prove me wrong.

It has basically a 90% to 100% kill rate within 48 hours. Who’s to say the surviving chickens survived because of genetics, or that they can still produce after barely not dying?

 

[Gimmered]

Don't you think it's counterproductive to kill all the chickens if bird flu is detected in the flock?

Wouldn't it be far better to let the flu run its course and then the survivors have immunity? Then we breed those chickens and hopefully increase genetic resistance to the flu for future egg-laying hens?

Have we not learned anything from the COVID panic? The virus is gonna do what it's going to do. It cannot be contained. Culling all the chickens isn't going to make the virus go extinct. We have to learn to live with it instead of doing things that don't work over and over again.

I'm not Anthony Fauci, nor am I a chicken farmer, but prove me wrong.

https://www.avma.org/resources-tools/animal-health-and-welfare/animal-health/avian-influenza/avian-influenza-virus-type-h5n1-us-dairy-cattle

How far do you want this to go? We can eat a few less eggs for a while. We will survive.

OK I should say you can, We pay $4 a dozen for farm fresh and have several who will supply us, but still, let's not **** up the whole food chain.

 

[TJ8869]

Nothing personal, this is just the first deep thought that popped up

View embedded media