A Czech investigation found that a factory owned by the billionaire former prime minister, Andrej Babiš, should have been the prime suspect in an environmental disaster. But the prosecutors and courts looked elsewhere.

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      3 days ago

      Oh don’t you worry, we’ll probably get a plague too in the not too distant future; things are looking pretty spooky with H5N1. Even if that shit got 20x less virulent after making the jump to mammals, it’d still be 10x worse than SARS-CoV-2.

      The good part about a proper flu pandemic would be that it’d kill proportionally more conservatives since they’re fucking morons who can be made to think vaccines have 5G tracking chips and/or demons in them. Yes, millions and millions of decent people would die too, but if we’re going to have a pandemic might as well enjoy the positives…

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        Whoa, hold on a sec! I meant one of them, not both at once!

        Joke aside, yeah… that’s something else I’ve been following since the Pandemic, we’re in for a lot of chop health-wise. Can’t wait for a fucking bird flu pandemic… Again! Maybe we can do mad cow’s next, since we’re rebooting the classics!

        Not to mention the as-of-yet unforeseen consequences of severe climate degradation! We meme about TLoU for instance, “haha, mushroom zombie apocalypse, haha,” but chances are really good what we’ll actually see is a massive increase in fungal infection rates and severity.

        It’s the mother of all cascade failures.