We're facing the early warning signs of a possible new pandemic perhaps more deadly than Covid, all because Trump chose to politicize the Covid pandemic in a racist fit.

Trump's no longer president, but he and his racism could still be responsible for millions more American deaths from a new pandemic disease. How and why? I'll explain in just a moment, but first let's look at the disease itself.

One reason egg prices are so high right now is because a new strain of bird flu — H5N1 — has popped up among egg-laying chickens. The disease has a shocking mortality rate, leading to the death (both from disease and from euthanizing flocks to stop its spread) of almost 60 million domesticated birds in the US alone, so far.

The virus has mutated enough to infect wild birds, and dead or dying wild birds with H5N1have now been found in 920 counties across all 50 states. It's also spread to mink in Europe (whose respiratory systems are so similar to ours they're used for research) and has caused seizures and death among bears in the United States.

The disease also infects and kills humans, although all of the cases so far have been people infected directly from sick animals.

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