RAW MILK IDIOTS DRIVE UP DEMAND, THINKING IT WILL GIVE THEM IMMUNITY TO BIRD FLU
I remember first hearing about the news about how bird flu was contaminating milk, and I have to say it caused no little amount of reactive concern until I then fairly quickly also learned that pasteurization kills H5N1 (aka, bird flu). In other words, there’s not really too much concern, since almost all the milk and cheese you have access to for consumption will be totally clean of any bird flu concerns. But apparently, my pretty normal two reactions of concern and then relief haven’t been shared by all. And those others are essentially idiots. And there are enough of them driving up demand for, and the price of, raw milk, because they actually believe that drinking it will give them immunity to H5N1.
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SALES OF RAW MILK HAVE JUMPED 21% IN 6 WEEKS SINCE NEWS OF DAIRY COWS WITH H5N1
So how many idiots are we talking about here? Well, enough to account for the fact that the sales of raw milk have jumped up a whopping 21% since we learned about bird flu in dairy cows about 6 weeks ago. That’s kind of a huge number, and will likely leave investors flummoxed as to how to predict idiots giving them a possible payday with commodity futures. But this raw milk fiasco isn’t going away anytime soon. Because 9 of the so far 46 dairy herds tested came back positive for H5N1. And that means the virus will likely mutate, and even then possibly spread to other species.
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SINCE 2003, BIRD FLU HAS KILLED OVER HALF THE PEOPLE WITH INFECTIONS: DON’T DRINK RAW MILK
But for these raw milk with high concentrations of bird flu drinking idiots, it’s hard to do anything but shake your damn head. Because not only will they not get immunity, many of them will get infected and possibly spread this totally avoidable disease. Though it’s worth noting that to date there has been no official transmission of bird flu from one human to another. Yet being the key word. But since 2003, 463 of the 889 human cases of H5N1 were fatal. That’s an over 50% death rate right there. And a whole lot of idiots are intentionally exposing themselves to something totally avoidable that has a better than a coin toss chance of killing them.
I’m trying not to have a cow over the stupidity. Maybe it’s time for a (pasteurized) milkshake with a lot of rum and Bailey’s Irish Cream.
