2022-08-03
Birds dying? Must be Bird Flu!
So is the absence of bees down to Bee Flu?
Is the fact that one can drive from one end of the country to the other without incurring insect-splat all over the windscreen just a minor aberration in the state of nature, when in my youth insect-splat was a confounded and inevitable nuisance which required special cleaning methods? Perhaps there is some marvel of modern science that unremarked scientists have devised to obliterate the erstwhile i-splat?
Or perhaps we have now through our ill-considered motoring habit splatted all the insects into submission and there are too few left to notice? Are electric cars the answer?
Whilst Big Pharma may have been unaccountably slow to offer vaccines for the birds and the bees (come on Marketing, pull your socks up!), it seems there might be some other explanation for the mostly unreported deaths that are afflicting colonies of migratory seabirds around the coasts of France and Holland this year.
So we might be well advised to consider other possibilities, and see whether other hypotheses could be devised that may explain the observed bird colony collapse.
One such hypothesis for which a reasonably convincing initial case might be proposed (download) does look promising - but what to do about it when those who would rule the world do not wish to know?
" ... the conservation organizations also do not think it strange that suddenly and for the first time ever, in 2022, bird flu is (a) killing Sandwich terns and (b) is occurring during their breeding season"
Go figure.
