A Bird Flu State of Emergency
By Rosanne Lindsay, Naturopath
Just after the Thanksgiving holiday, when people celebrated with a turkey on the table, suddenly all birds are blamed for spreading bird flu.
Authorities claim that birds are infecting diary cows. Just how the avian species infects the bovine species is not disclosed. Perhaps there is a hierarchy of farm animals that pass it along?
Will horses be next?
Bird Brain
If there is a connection between birds and humans, it is not the cow.
Bird brain ideas originate from humans directly. Authorities expect people to believe that the first human case of bird flu was contacted from a cow through a bird. And, that since April 2024, there have been an alleged 61 human cases of H5 bird flu reported in the United States, says the CDC.
The question asked by fearful news reporters is, “will this ‘outbreak’ lead to the next pandemic?”
In December 2024, the “first severe case” of H5N1 was reported in a hospitalized patient. The “first case in Wisconsin” was blamed on a turkey farm.
Among all these “first cases” of bird flu, authorities are targeting U.S. dairy farms. The CDC says bird flu is widespread in poultry and dairy farms.
Is the CDC to be believed?
Hindsight is For the Birds
Remember when the CDC went after pigs for swine flu (H1N1) in 2009-10? Birds were blamed then too.
Most people may not recall the earlier swine flu fiasco of 1976; then-President Gerald Ford rushed a vaccine to the entire American population “based on ill-founded science and political imprudence.” Many people died. Only 20% received the vaccine due to bad publicity. The vaccine program was suspended by December 1976, under the threat of preventative medicine being discredited.
With hindsight, it’s easy to see that the fears of the time were unfounded. – BBC
If hindsight were 20/20, then rushing untested products to market would not still be practiced. Most recently it happened again in 2020 under the DHHS’s Operation Warp Speed in an effort to deliver 300 million doses of COVID “countermeasures” before anyone was the wiser. This time the deployment was considered a success. All negative publicity was censored.
State-of-Emergency
Today’s news claims that cows infected with bird flu have died in 5 states. And we know that once a few dairy cows are targeted, most cattle will find themselves on death row. No cow is safe.
As history reveals, once herds are culled by the hundreds and thousands, food prices rise. Already in June of 2022, farmers were culling their dairy herds for fear of bird flu. Just refer to egg and beef prices, today, which could be the highest in generations.
In response to the first alleged human bird flu case, and without any signs of spreading, California’s governor Gavin Newsom has proclaimed a state-of-emergency for all of California. See Proclamation here.
We will continue to take all necessary steps to prevent the spread of this virus. —Governor Gavin Newsom
What does necessary mean? More testing, monitoring, and vaccines for cows? Birds? Humans? All of the above?
A Case of the Bird Flu
The Case of the Bird Flu began in earnest last fall, in September, 2024, when the USDA approved the first bird flu (H1N1) vaccine for cows.
USDA continues to support the rapid development and timely approval of an H5N1 vaccine for dairy cows, in addition to other species.— USDA
Yet, according to NPR:
There’s no evidence of ongoing human to human spread in California or the rest of the country. But scientists warn that uncontrolled spread in dairy cattle heightens the risk of spillover into humans, which could give the virus a chance to acquire dangerous mutations. — NPR
Why call a state-of-emergency if there is no infection spreading among humans?
More than 300 dairy herds have tested positive in California in the last 30 days alone. — NPR
Looking through a magnifying glass, the more you test anything, the more you’ll find anything.
What begins as fear mongering on the coasts eventually makes its way inland. So it is important to brush up on knowledge about what is legal and what is not.
For instance, can a governor make a law?
Is it legal for California’s governor to call a state of emergency in advance of person-to-person spread?
No. That is perfectly illegal.
