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A team of artificial intelligence engineers has equipped a Boston Dynamics robot dog with OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Text-to-Speech voice, giving the robot an AI “brain”. This is what creating a real-life Skynet-like robot looks like.
The ruling class has already used these robot dogs to make sure people stay in line and don’t dissent.
NYPD Deploys Robot Dog To Catch “COVID Violators”
So what could possibly go wrong?
According to a report by ZeroHedge, in a recent video posted to Twitter, machine learning engineer Santiago Valdarrama showed how the robot-dog can interact with humans via a voice interface faster than control panels and reports.
“These robots run automated missions every day,” Valdarrama said in a Twitter thread, noting that each mission could be “miles-long, hard-to-understand configuration files” and “only technical people can handle them.” When paired with ChatGPT and Google’s Text-to-Speech voice, a user can ask simple questions to the robot about “configuration files and the mission results.”
“We can now ask the robots about past and future missions and get an answer in real-time. ChatGPT interprets the question, parses the files, and formulates the answer,” he said.
We integrated ChatGPT with our robots.
We had a ton of fun building this!
Read on for the details: pic.twitter.com/DRC2AOF0eU
— Santiago (@svpino) April 25, 2023
This is how the Terminator movie starts.
— K1NGKOIN (@K1NGKOIN) April 25, 2023
According to Interesting Engineering, a Chinese startup company called Hengbot has already created “Sparky,” the first robotic dog in the world with musculoskeletal limbs. The robot can run, jump, and do tricks like a real dog using advanced artificial intelligence (AI), claims the company.
Sparky, “the canine robot has a mission to ‘blur the line between technology and life’ by developing machines that are agile, nimble, and warm to the touch,” said a report by Robotics & Automation News on Thursday. “With its musculoskeletal limbs and advanced artificial intelligence, Sparky is a ‘groundbreaking innovation’ that closely resembles a live animal. It can run, jump, and perform tricks just like a real dog.”
In the short term, integrating a ChatGPT AI “brain” into robots may appear harmless. However, there’s a dark risk of this massive artificial intelligence push, giving rise to intelligent robots in a Skynet-like scenario. The ruling class isn’t doing this by accident. They want and desperately need AI to be integrated into every aspect of human life. They normalizing it right now, and before too long, won’t need humans to police each other, they’ll have the AI do it.
Rabobank: The “Rise of the Machines” Is Here
It is starting with dogs.
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Pepper Spray Is One Of The Most Popular Self-Defense Weapons Available Today
That’s why we’ve added h2t to our list of 10 basic prepping steps.
But there’s a lot of confusion and misunderstandings around pepper spray, such as:
That’s why today, I want to clear the air.
Using both my Engineering & Self-Defense background, I’m going to share the following:
First, many people don’t know where to buy pepper spray.
And in the past, this was a problem since many sporting goods stores didn’t carry it.
But nowadays, it’s not difficult to find – you CAN buy it online:
This self-defense kit from Survival Frog includes three key self-defense weapons:
The personal alarm is meant to be added to a keychain, while the other two devices easily fit in a survival bag or purse.
However, this bundle is for you if you’re serious about self-defense without firearm training.
Why? Because:
You can take care of all your self-defense needs and upgrade your keychain with a single purchase.
Earlier this year, I read an interesting news article.
It was about a man hospitalized after eating one Carolina Reaper.
It is said to be the hottest chili pepper known to man – at around 2,000,000 Scoville Heat Units!
This pepper causes intense dry heaves, blinding headaches, and some near-stroke symptoms.
But what if the “pepper” in a pepper spray was that powerful?
FOX Labs is measured at 5,300,000 SHU – an astounding 265% hotter than the Carolina Reaper!
It can spray this blinding defense up to 17 to 20 feet. FOX Labs Pepper Spray is used by Police, Law Enforcement, Security, and Military agencies worldwide.
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They’re a well-known manufacturer trusted by police departments and other law enforcement agencies nationwide.
The 3-in-1 Pepper Spray is one of their most popular offerings, with OC pepper spray, CS tear gas, and a UV dye.
They have a tight stream spray pattern. And they offer an inert practice spray canister so you can train without the risk.
This practice can ensure that in the heat of the moment, you don’t fumble with the twist-lock safety or accidentally spray backward!
The included training documents have links to instructional videos and other training tips.
These can help you get the most out of your new spray.
The Sabre 3-in-1 also has a good shelf life (4 years) and a low price, so it’s easy to outfit your entire family.
These sprays are generally larger canisters, have longer ranges, and include higher concentrations.
The Frontiersman delivers on all those fronts.
The 9.2oz canister is huge and hard to conceal. But the 35ft range is amazing compared to most personal pepper sprays’ 10-15ft max range.
If you’re in the backcountry a lot or want a good option for home or vehicle defense, this is your best bet!
This immediately colors the skin and clothing of your attacker.
The 3 oz size is available in both stream and spray patterns.
Depending on the spray pattern, you can expect a 12 to 15 feet range.
The Mean Green has metered half-second burst sprays.
This provides you with over thirty “shots” without the risk of holding down the trigger until you run out.
This POM Pepper Spray is compact and designed to look a little less intimidating.
This makes it a good option for those looking to carry without making it obvious.
It’s a small canister and has a closer range than other sprays.
But that’s a decent trade-off for being able to carry it in more situations.
The Wrist Saver is a convenient padded wristband that contains:
Of course, it’s a small canister made to fit in a wrist holster.
But it’s still capable and worth checking out if you need a portable running option.
This is a pepper spray keychain – which is an ideal size for pockets and purses.
But don’t let the small size fool you; it can deliver over 10ft range in a powerful stream.
It also has added UV Perpetrator marking dye to identify a suspect.
This professional-grade Prepper Spray Keychain Spray is HPLC lab-tested before being used in production and sales.
No question about it, firearms are a more powerful form of self-defense if someone is properly trained.
But that’s the issue with firearms; many folks don’t want to take the time to train properly. And some people don’t believe in an armed society.
Plus, firearms are a lethal form of self-defense. This can also make someone hesitant to concealed carry a handgun – even if they own one.
The bottom line is this:
Firearms come with some extra baggage.
No, we’re NOT saying YOU should carry pepper spray instead of a gun. You do you.
But there are plenty of people who are more comfortable carrying pepper spray.
Plus, there are situations where pepper spray is the most logical deterrent.
Pulling a gun on an unarmed threat might unnecessarily aggravate or elevate the situation.
Many (including military and law enforcement) choose pepper spray as a first option.
Then back that up with a more lethal defense (such as a firearm).
This prevents premature escalation in certain circumstances.
For example: if the threat is unarmed and/or there are many innocent bystanders.
And for some people, carrying a firearm isn’t an option for moral reasons.
Making it the perfect addition to your nonlethal self-defense arsenal.
Watching the video below provides an excellent example of why EVERYONE can benefit from carrying a professional grade OC spray:
Clearly, even the most expensive pepper sprays are far cheaper than a handgun.
If you want a cost-effective self-defense weapon, pepper spray is hard to beat.
Yes, it does have some legal restrictions (based on strength and delivery).
But still far fewer than most firearms.
Many locations prohibit firearms (college campuses, national parks, shopping centers, etc.).
But these “safe zones” don’t have the same bans.
Plus, it’s simpler to travel across city or state boundaries.
Where firearm laws (and even knife laws) frequently change from locale to locale.
Pepper sprays are generally smaller and lighter than firearms.
Even lighter than the smallest and lightest handguns (such as S&W Airweight and Kel-Tec).
Making them easier to carry while working out, running, or even walking the dog.
And some of the most compact OC sprays are small enough to hang on a self-defense keychain.
Note: These mini options tend to have very short spray durations…
Pepper spray is extremely irritating and painful – but not fatal.
It also has a much lower chance of injuring a bystander, which makes it safer to use in a crowd.
While “non-lethal” made the list of pros for pepper spray, it’s also one of the main “cons.”
In some situations, pepper spray may not be enough to stop the most vicious attacker, especially if they are on drugs that numb their senses or are extremely intoxicated.
If a situation gets out of hand, a perpetrator with firepower is no match for someone with pepper spray.
Unlike a handgun, reloading isn’t an option with pepper spray.
Most sprays have a short duration, which means knowing exactly when to use them!
Availability
While pepper spray is becoming more common, it’s still not as easy to find in every sporting goods store.
Unlike common handguns and ammo rounds – like the 9mm – which can be found anywhere.
Not all people will respond to pepper spray – nor will all animals.
With people, this can be due to mental illness, drug abuse, or training.
Plus, face shields, gas masks, and sunglasses can reduce direct contact with the eyes.
Lowering its overall effectiveness in stopping a threat.
When choosing pepper spray, there are a few factors you’ll need to be sure to consider.
The formulation is the first and most important factor in choosing a pepper spray.
Three major formulas on the market for self-defense sprays are CN, CS, and OC.
OC is one of the most common and popular forms of pepper spray and stands for Oleoresin Capsicum.
The active ingredient is capsaicin, the same chemical that gives peppers heat.
Capsaicin acts as an inflammatory agent.
It not only causes pain but also causes instant inflammation of the mucous membranes.
This makes it difficult and painful to breathe or even open your eyes.
The remaining ingredients form an oily liquid to help deliver the capsaicin.
The oily liquid means the solution is not soluble in water.
So you can’t easily wash it off.
Victims are encouraged to blink excessively to produce tears to help to flush the eyes.
They are also told not to touch any other body parts to avoid spreading the substance.
There are wipes available to help remove pepper spray.
But your attacker is unlikely to have them on hand fast enough to be useful!
But not all peppers are the same…
People who like spicy foods know there are regular peppers, HOT peppers, and INSANELY HOT peppers!
And there’s a way to measure these differences; it’s called the Scoville Heat Scale.
You can see from the image below that:
CS isn’t technically a “pepper spray” but rather a military tear gas.
It can be used alone or in combination with OC spray for added effectiveness.
CS is the most popular since it induces a range of nasty symptoms – from mild tearing to immediate vomiting.
It’s often used for riot control or to force people out of an area.
CS can be found in aerosol canisters or can be deployed by grenades.
CN is an older form of tear gas, which has similar effects to CS gas and also includes temporary loss of balance.
The effects of CN tear gas last longer than that of CS. But it can also cause permanent skin and lung damage, so it’s much less common than it was in years past.
In some sprays, the manufacturers add either a visible or UV dye.
This dye becomes a marker for your attacker, making IDing them easier later if they run.
This can be helpful for law enforcement, but the visible dyes can also help you avoid them if they try to come back.
Another critical factor is finding the right spray pattern.
The most typical patterns used are spray or mist.
If you have respiratory issues, spray patterns help avoid the risk of accidental user inhalation.
For accuracy and longer range, some shoot streams of fluid.
This allows you to hit a single attacker without spraying bystanders.
Of course, stream pattern sprays require more training and practice.
If you miss, you may have lost your only chance at self-defense.
A mist spray pattern produces a large cloud of gas which is more easily inhaled.
But it comes at the price of a far shorter range.
Since they form a cloud, mist spray patterns do not allow you to target your attacker directly.
This means there is a risk of spraying people other than your attacker. Including yourself, if the mist cloud blows back on you.
The least common spray pattern is foam.
Foam sprays are difficult to aim and have a shorter range than stream pattern sprayers.
It’s also slower to take effect, so it’s not as useful in most situations. Avoid foam spray patterns unless they’re the only option.
Finally, you’ll want to consider the sheer volume of spray you might need.
Stopping a petty thief in the city may require far less spray than a charging grizzly bear in the backcountry.
Think about how you intend to use your spray and pick the right size for your needs.
Keychain pepper sprays are marketed to runners and college students. These small bottles contain less than a half-ounce of usable spray.
This only gives you a couple of seconds of spray at close range.
Better than nothing, but you can also run out before an attacker has been properly neutralized.
Larger sizes tend to come with belt holsters for easy retrieval. Most purses can fit a medium-sized 2oz canister.
These include many backcountry bear sprays and personal defense sprays.
Two ounces of fluid is good for up to 30 seconds of spray, and many can achieve accurate patterns up to about 15 feet.
Sure, 15 feet doesn’t feel nearly far enough during an attack. But it’s good enough as a close-in self-defense weapon.
Remember, you’re aiming at a small target like the eyes and nose, so long-range shots are risky either way.
There are much larger sprays on the market, but they’re only good for home defense.
Anything larger than 2 ounces is generally too bulky for everyday carry.
It can cause serious injury if not handled or stored correctly.
Each model comes with instructions for safe use and handling.
Take the time to read through it before heading out into a situation where you may need to use your pepper spray.
One of the first things to learn is drawing, aiming, and releasing the safety mechanism on your spray canister.
The best way to learn is using a practice canister. Practice with the inert spray until you can:
Proper body position is key to aiming any weapon.
For pepper spray, you’ll want a solid defensive posture.
That means your knees are slightly bent, and the spray canister is held out in front of your face.
This helps with your line of sight during aiming.
This balanced, athletic posture will help your accuracy.
When you press the trigger, resist the urge to close your eyes. This only serves to interrupt your aim at the worst possible time.
Spray in a slight “back and forth” pattern, as if spray painting a surface.
This helps ensure that you don’t miss smaller targets like the eyes and nose.
Always remember, this isn’t an absolute.
Be sure to keep your eyes on your target. But be ready to elevate the fight or flee if your attacker doesn’t back down.
Finally, here’s a good video on some DO’s and DON’Ts:
Yes, you CAN make your own pepper spray.
But it’s highly unlikely you’ll make it as powerful or as good at delivery as commercial brands.
But if you still want to pursue making your own – read our step-by-step article.
Pepper spray might not have the reputation that other self-defense weapons enjoy. But they should!
The best ones have powerful high-concentration formulas. And ease of use makes them an attractive option for anyone.
From backcountry defense against bears to people intent on doing you harm.
There are plenty of options in size and range to suit any situation.
It’s smart to add some to your EDC bag, get-home bag, bug-out bag, your vehicle’s glove box, and even your home.
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The biggest companies in the United States are giving the axe to hundreds of thousands of workers, but this should not come as a shock to any of us. Officials at the Federal Reserve were warned over and over again that they were going to create an extremely harsh economic environment if they aggressively raised interest rates, and that is exactly what has transpired. We haven’t seen a tsunami of layoffs like this since 2008 and 2009, and the outlook for the months ahead is extremely bleak.
Many of us warned the Fed that it would be mind-numbingly stupid to push interest rates much higher just as we were entering a major economic downturn, but of course the Fed didn’t want to listen.
We were told that they are the “experts” and that they knew precisely what they were doing.
And now a nightmare scenario is playing out right in front of our eyes.
The following are 16 large companies that have just announced mass terminations…
#1 Tyson: “Tyson Foods Inc (TSN.N) will eliminate about 10% of corporate jobs and 15% of senior leadership roles, Chief Executive Donnie King told employees on Wednesday.”
#2 Lyft: “Ride-hailing app Lyft will lay off 1,072 employees, roughly 26% of its corporate workforce, and won’t hire for an additional 250 positions, the company said in an SEC filing Thursday.”
#3 Deloitte: “Deloitte will cut around 1,200 jobs or 1.5% of its U.S. workforce, the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing internal employee communications.”
#4 Gap: “Gap will lay off about 1,800 employees, more than three times as many as the 500 layoffs it announced in September, as part of a broad effort to cut costs and streamline operations, the company said Thursday.”
#5 Ernst & Young: “Ernst & Young said Monday that it would eliminate roughly 3,000 jobs from its US workforce as it pivots to address shifts in demand and “overcapacity” in sections of its business.”
#6 3M: “The manufacturing behemoth behind some consumer brands, including Post-It Notes and Scotch Tape, said it would lay off 6,000 staff around the world. Those cuts are in addition to the 2,500 manufacturing roles 3M eliminated in January.”
#7 CDW: “CDW’s bombshell announcement this week that it expects first fiscal quarter results below expectations and the apparent layoff of hundreds of its employees is a sign that moderated technology demand since the height of the pandemic is more than just a one-quarter strain for hardware, software and services businesses.”
#8 David’s Bridal: “One of the largest sellers of wedding gowns in the United States, David’s Bridal is laying off thousands of workers nationwide, according to a notice filed to the Pennsylvania Department of Labor.”
#9 DropBox: “Shares of Dropbox are trading about 5% higher today after the company said it plans to slash its global workforce by approximately 16%.”
#10 Red Hat: “Following parent company IBM announcing thousands of layoffs in 2023, Red Hat CEO Matt Hicks told employees Monday that approximately 4 percent of its global workforce will be laid off.”
#11 Opendoor: “Opendoor Technologies on Tuesday said it was cutting roughly 560 jobs, or 22% of the workforce at the online U.S. real estate firm, citing a declining housing market.”
#12 First Republic: “First Republic plans to reduce its workforce between 20% and 25% this quarter following “unprecedented” deposit outflows in the wake of Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse last month, the company said in a regulatory filing on Monday.”
#13 Walmart: “Walmart is laying off more than 2,000 workers at five US warehouses that fulfill website orders in a move that came weeks after America’s largest private employer warned it’s in for a tough year ahead.”
#14 Facebook: “A layoff notice filed with the state this week shows Facebook’s parent company Meta plans to let go 343 employees across three Manhattan offices.”
#15 Amazon: “Amazon has officially started up its most recent round of employee reductions. The company is kicking off its previously announced layoffs of ~9,000 staff by axing workers in its Amazon Web Services (AWS) and human resources sectors.”
#16 Disney: “Disney is laying off several thousand workers across the company this week in the second and largest wave of cuts as part of the media giant’s previously announced plan to slash its workforce by 7,000 employees.”
Sadly, these are not isolated examples.
According to Challenger, Gray & Christmas, during the first three months of this year job cuts in the United States were 396 percent higher than they were during the same period a year ago…
Companies announced nearly 90,000 layoffs in March, a sharp step up from the previous month and a giant acceleration from a year ago, outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas reported Thursday.
Planned layoffs totaled 89,703 for the period, an increase of 15% from February. Year to date, job cuts have soared to 270,416, an increase of 396% from the same period a year ago.
The damage was especially bad in tech, which has announced 102,391 cuts so far in 2023. That’s a staggering increase of 38,487% from a year ago and good for 38% of all staff reductions. Tech already has cut 5% more than for all of 2022, according to the report, and is on pace to eclipse 2001, the worst year ever amid the dot-com bust.
Please take a moment to digest those numbers, because they are absolutely staggering.
This isn’t just some sort of a minor shift in the employment market.
This is a collapse.
But according to the “official numbers” that the Biden administration gives us, everything is still fine.
And they are going to keep telling you that everything is fine until it is too late.
For years, our leaders were able to temporarily prop up our failing system by flooding it with unprecedented amounts of fresh money.
But now a day of reckoning has arrived.
They can’t keep printing more money because they are terrified of more inflation, but our economy is going to crumble without artificial assistance.
Those that are running things have run out of good options, but most Americans still have faith that they will be able to find a way to pilot us out of this mess.
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If there’s one thing we’ve been told by the ruling class repeatedly since the beginning of the COVID-19 scamdemic, it’s that there will be another one and we aren’t prepared for it. Former White House advisor Deborah Birx said Wednesday that she thinks “we” are less prepared than we were before COVID-19.
Bill Gates infamously warned with a smirk that the next plandemic will get attention. Does that mean it’ll be real? That people will get more than a cold and they won’t have to fake the statistics because we’ll be able to see the damage being done with our own eyes?
Bill Gates Warns The Next Pandemic Will Be Worse Than COVID
The country wasn’t in a great place in 2019, either. Its pandemic preparedness plan “failed in the first week,” when those in charge didn’t consider that people infected with the virus could have it and spread it without symptoms, Birx said. Except that’s not exactly how it works considering people who are fully “vaccinated” can spread the virus without “having symptoms” too.
Pfizer Executive Admits COVID “Vaccines” Were Not About Preventing Transmission
Lockdowns Were a SCAM! Asymptomatic Carriers Don’t Spread COVID-19
“I think people in the federal government believe the private sector is not there to help,” she added. But the private sector stepped in to develop and produce tests, vaccines, and monoclonal antibody treatments that have saved millions of American lives.” This is the definition of fascism. The ruling class has merged with the private sector to destroy the few individual rights and freedoms people had left.
There are several ways another plandemic can play out. As of right now, there are many things that the ruling class could turn into another major pandemic.
Rulers Begin to Establish A “Bird Flu” Narrative
The Next Plandemic? Establishment Media Has Picked Up The Marburg Outbreak Story
WHO Warns Of “Biological Risk” During Violent Seizure Of Lab In Sudan
This article was originally published by Michael Snyder at The End of the American Dream.
If you thought that what we have been through the past few years was bad, just wait until you see what happens when a truly deadly virus starts spreading like wildfire all over the planet. For example, scientists have been warning for years that the H5N1 strain of the bird flu has the potential to rapidly kill vast numbers of people.
The good news is that H5N1 does not naturally spread easily among mammals, but more than a decade ago scientists in the United States and the Netherlands were conducting “gain of function” research on H5N1 in order to create a version that could spread easily among mammals. And as you will see below, some very familiar names funded that research.
Thankfully, H5N1 was off the radar for a long time, but then about a year ago a massive outbreak suddenly erupted among birds all over the world and it has been “wiping out everything in numbers we’ve never seen before”…
The US is currently experiencing its worst-ever outbreak of bird flu, also known as avian influenza — and a new study has found that the strain could become endemic in the country.
The outbreak is “wiping out everything in numbers we’ve never seen before,” Jennifer Mullinax, an assistant professor of environmental science and technology at the University of Maryland, told Sky News.
Even though millions upon millions of chickens, turkeys and other birds are now dead, most people in the general population have not been too alarmed by this outbreak.
But in recent months, H5N1 has started killing mammals such as foxes, minks, raccoons and bears.
And now researchers in Canada have proven that one strain of H5N1 that is currently circulating can spread “efficiently” among ferrets…
The bird flu virus that is killing millions of animals around the world has been found to “efficiently” spread between ferrets in a laboratory, raising concerns about the potential for the virus to jump to humans.
In a new preprint, scientists in Canada demonstrated that H5N1 samples taken from a red tailed hawk spread efficiently between ferrets – the main “animal model” used by scientists in experiments to analyse how respiratory viruses may impact people.
This is not good.
Ferrets were used in this research because they have “a similar respiratory makeup to humans”…
Ferrets were chosen for the study as they a similar respiratory makeup to humans, providing experts with an idea of how a virus would interact in people.
They found that ‘direct contact’ with one strain of H5N1 isolated from an infected bird, resulted ‘in lethal outcomes’, the paper added.
So where did this strain of H5N1 come from?
More specifically, did it occur naturally, or was it created in a lab?
More than a decade ago, gain of function experiments that were funded by Dr. Francis S. Collins and Dr. Anthony Fauci actually created a version of H5N1 that “had gained the ability to spread through the air between ferrets”…
And yet in late 2011 the world learned that two scientific teams – one in Wisconsin, led by virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka, and another in the Netherlands, led by virologist Ron Fouchier – had potentially pushed the virus in that direction. Each of these labs had created H5N1 viruses that had gained the ability to spread through the air between ferrets, the animal model used to study how flu viruses might behave in humans.
The ultimate goal of this work was to help protect the world from future pandemics, and the research was supported with words and funding by two of the most prominent scientists in the United States: Dr. Francis S. Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, and Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Many of us have been warning for a very long time that such research is extremely dangerous.
If a version of H5N1 that can spread very easily among humans were to get loose, the consequences could be “100 times worse than Covid”…
They warned that if such a strain made the leap to humans, the consequences could be catastrophic.
‘Because there is little to no H5-specific population-wide immunity, if an H5N1 isolate capable of sustained transmission made a species jump into humans, this would likely represent a destructive infection in immunologically naïve population,’ they wrote.
John Fulton, a pharmaceutical industry consultant and founder of BioNiagara, told MailOnline H5N1 poses a threat ‘100 times worse than Covid’.
Nobody knows for sure how many would die if a full-blown H5N1 pandemic were to erupt among humans, but it has been projected that the death toll could reach as high as 1.5 billion people.
Since 2003, the death rate for humans that have become infected with H5N1 has been 53 percent.
So we better hope that a version of H5N1 that transmits from one person to another easily does not start spreading any time soon.
Unfortunately, there are signs that time is running out. In fact, it is being reported that six domestic cats have tested positive for H5N1 right here in the United States…
Another cat in the U.S. has died of H5N1 avian influenza, raising the number of domestic cats infected with the virus to at least six, officials say. The new case was reported in Nebraska and two older cases were found in Oregon.
If H5N1 is now even spreading among domestic cats, how long will it be before it makes the jump to humans?
Obviously the big pharmaceutical companies believe that it could be soon, because they are feverishly working on new vaccines…
Vaccine makers GSK, Moderna, and CSL Seqirus have begun developing new human shots to target the rapidly spreading strain of the virus.
Others such as Sanofi have generic vaccines the H5N1 virus in stock that could be adapted to the currently currently circulating strain.
I really, really hope that this thing fizzles out.
Because if millions of people do start getting infected with H5N1, it will make the COVID pandemic look like a Sunday picnic.
As I keep warning my regular readers, we have now entered an era of great pestilences.
Scientists all over the globe are monkeying around with some of the most dangerous bugs known to humanity, and in many cases they are purposely trying to make them even more deadly.
As we have seen, it is way too easy for an “accident” to happen, and the next “accident” that happens could potentially kill millions upon millions of us.
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