Let's talk chickens. Have you had your bird vaccinated?
Well, it may be too late. Over twenty million egg laying chickens have died from bird flu in the last 3 months. Even Robert Kennedy Jr. thinks more hens should have gotten the jab.
Bobby might like his milk raw, but he takes his eggs scrambled and cooked dry. More heat, fewer brain eating worms you know.
67 people in the United States have gotten bird flu in the current outbreak, with 1 person dying in Louisiana. Most of those who've caught the disease are poultry or dairy handlers in commercial operations. Others came to it a bit more suspiciously.
Meat said he didn't hear of any bird flu from the Blackberry and Letcher County Chicken pits before they were shut down. There probably weren't two covid vaccinated among the eight arrested in the cockfighting ring but all the chickens had their flu shots.
Commercial poultry farms can get insurance for flocks. Policies covering fighting roosters can't be found. A man's got to protect his investment.
At least that's what he hears. Dicier operations may not be so steadfast.
Whatever the case, egg prices are near $9 a dozen in some places in America. That's 75 cents an egg for those of you who can't find the calculator on your $1000 phone.
Most reasonable folks would see the price of eggs as a simple supply and demand issue. Supply has shrunk, demand hasn't. But since reasonable isn't so in style these days, we've got three or four conspiracies running the weave through X and Facebook and Pravda Social that all end in its Biden's fault.
Isn't it funny how folk say the government ought to do something about it then vote for the people who make sure the government doesn't do something about it?
You're right, it isn't.
What's even less funny is how every natural disaster is now conspiracy fodder for the Trumpets long before the water recedes or the smoke clears or the wind quits blowing. We saw it first hand when floods wiped out Elkhorn Creek and most of Letcher county.
We saw it when rain and wind ravaged western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee. And now, when wildfires driven by hurricane force winds burn thousands of homes, schools, churches and businesses in the Los Angeles area, the low lifes of magaland bubble up like maggots and spread conspiracy and blame.
What the dividers don't offer is any kind of help and support, unlike all the people who stepped up and came to our area after the flood. And all the people who stepped up and went to North Carolina after the hurricane. Or all the people who will undoubtedly step up and help in California after the fires have burned out.
Now Washington's new Insane Clown Posse wants to put strings on disaster aid to Los Angeles right after they give Elon Musk a tax cut because that's the Christian thing to do, says Mike Johnson. After all, Jesus only gave fish to the people who were legal, right?
You know, the ones who looked like Mike.