“Nobody has panicked since 2022. Everyone has been living the fantasy of normal. I think politicians and corporate media flunkies really mean this: Don't get angry at them. Don't criticize them.
Don't hold them accountable. Don't demand they get their act together and do more than perform testing theater.
@trendless
"The best they can offer is what we already know, that pasteurization probably kills most pathogens, as long as you don't screw it up or cut corners."
Given the damage that Covid has already done to many people, and seeing at my job just how many people no longer remember all the steps needed to perform their work accurately... and on top of just knowing how incompetent many people and authorities can be... and knowing from several jobs I've had concerning regulatory processes that have variances and allowances built in... no, I do not have confidence that the pasteurization processes are performed accurately 100% of the time.
Also given how sick farm cats have been getting from avian flu and how many have been dying, even if there were risks I was willing to take for myself, there's no way I'm going to risk anything for my cats.
@VeeRat right?! So about the intransigent, intractable EvidenceBased™ dogma that's been used to minimize the egregious amounts of damage SARS-CoV-2's been doing -- guess that's just a convenient tool for oppression and eugenics?
> Even a story in U.S. News has to admit that "no studies have ever been done on the effects of pasteurization on bird flu virus in milk." They say, "Experts believe pasteurization... should kill the virus."