Been single for a decade now. If the sad is okay to bury, reading or video games. If something has to be said, I talk to (& pet) the cats. Or to people I’ve lost if I am okay with maybe crying. If it’s just too quiet and lonesome, I hop on Discord; some server will have a conversation to join.

It might get cats killed though, if the public is told they’re carriers. So maybe let’s not draw that connection unless it’s actually present or at least reasonably likely based on what we see. Right now humans pose an exposure risk to cats. Let’s not add a risk of culling by claiming the converse.

“But what if?”
Yeah we have to watch for evidence of airborne mammal to mammal spread, absolutely. Fabricating it for clicks does not in any universe improve monitoring on that front.

Cats, on the other hand, put their faces in everything. Groom humans. Walk in whatever humans track inside and groom themselves. Which tracks with what we’ve seen in feline cases so far; there’s been a connection to consuming contaminated material, not inhaling it

For a human to catch H5N1 from a cat, that would almost necessitate airborne mammal to mammal transmission. We haven’t seen that yet. It will be a big deal when we do. But most humans aren’t licking their cats or eating out of pet bowls so excepting toddlers, cat-to-human would be a major alarm

“But if human can transmit to cat maybe cat can transmit to human?”
We don’t even know that human transmitted to cat. Human shoes may have transmitted to cat. Other fomite spread. The key here is that humans are exposed to cats differently than cats sre exposed to humans.

Two *indoor only cats* in dairy workers’ homes tested H5N1+. The dairy workers refused testing. For an indoor cat to be exposed to a pathogen, the pathogen has to be brought in to their environment. Sorry but the alternative is bringing back spontaneous generation theory and we’re not gonna do that.

I want these thoughts to be anxiety-lies, but…yeah

Sent

Oh. Oh no.

I will see if I can find somewhere to host it this evening. (There is way too much for an email)

Did you find this? I downloaded everything from data.pepfar.gov that I could last month, I can find a way to get it to you after work today if you still need it.

I don’t suppose anyone happened to snag the data when it was available? Would be good to have.

(…which, it’s their body; they shouldn’t need my input. But so interesting that doesn’t work for AFAB folks). So then, post divorce, they’ve had a vasectomy that limits an option they may want, I was stuck without the same option despite knowing what I wanted. Who the heck does this serve?