Well, folks, it’s a presidential election year. You know what that means, right? Time to roll out the next pandemic! And it seems like that might be on the horizon, so look out, ladies and gentlemen, we might be headed back to lockdown central before November. Gee, it’s awfully convenient to keep having new outbreaks of novel viruses every four years, isn’t it? It’s almost like we can predict when they’re coming around down to the “T.” Every time there’s a major political election, poof! Pandemic. Wonder why that is?
According to the Daily Star:
In an outbreak that shares an eerie similarity with the arrival of Covid-19, a mystery illness has hospitalised dozens of people in Argentina. Last night, April 17, an alert about the virus circulated via an international public health surveillance system as 60 people were reported with the sickness in the country’s capital Buenos Aires, reports the Daily Mail
When Covid was brought to the attention of the world in late 2019, it did so via the same database that alerted authorities last night in Argentina, called ProMed. Submitted anonymously “via an individual known to ProMed”, yesterday’s alert said: “In the past 30 days, there appears to have been an increase in severe atypical pneumonia requiring critical care in Buenos Aires. The affected individuals are mostly young people without major risk factors.”
While no official statements have been made by Argentinian officials, patients have reportedly required mechanical ventilation to help them breathe.
The report also revealed that the alert suggested that over one-third of the individuals who were infected with this new illness showed symptoms of psittacosis, which, and this is no laughing matter so get your head out of the gutter right now, is caused by a type of chlamydia that is common in birds. I didn’t realize chlamydia was a problem among our avian neighbors. Perhaps the radical left will come out with a program to help provide condoms to male birds so they can better practice safe sex and reduce chlamydia infections?
There I told you not to make jokes and I went did that very thing myself. I’m horrible. Simply horrible.
Psittacosis is a flu-like illness nicknamed parrot fever and typically triggers symptoms such as mild headaches and a cough, although it can lead to pneumonia in severe cases. The disease can be particularly problematic for elderly or immunocompromised members of the public.
The alert added: “Although psittacosis appears to be the etiology of some of the cases, there may be more than one agent involved. ProMED would appreciate more information about these cases.”
According to the Mail, experts today called on health chiefs not to be “complacent” in the face of the threat of another respiratory illness, although it was insisted it was “unlikely this will pose a threat more widely”.
Well, I mean, we’ve all been expecting the next outbreak of something or other to hit right around this time so the left can declare lockdown protocols and demand people use mail-in ballots instead of going to the polls like they did in 2020. I guess there are a couple of different diseases out there they can choose from to make a big deal of. Bird flu is the other one. Anyone want to put money down on which disease it will be and when the powers-that-be will try to force us all back into pandemic mode?