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Lots of reasons. A need to be right at all costs. A human drive to be tribal and have an “us vs them” mentality. The death of intellectual honesty on the alter of pride. To name a few. In debates like this where there’s a mixture of political, scientific, and moral disagreements, I think a lot...

But… as already pointed out I did reject the notion that HPAI routinely kills 90-100% of infected birds in two days. What part of “I don’t believe it” constitutes an acceptance? And yet you are now contradicting yourself, where you are saying out of one side of your mouth (or fingers, so to...

1. It can be detected through various tests, some direct, some indirect. I am aware that HPAI infections are often identified by the presence of antibodies, thus surviving birds who have beat the infection will test positive and be culled. There are also rapid antigen tests and other more...

What are my erroneous assumptions?

I don’t believe that. 90-100% mortality in 48 hours is the claim. If that was so, infected flocks wouldn’t need to be culled. They’d simply cull themselves in 2 days. Which isn’t what actually happens when HPAI hits a flock. Otherwise we wouldn’t have stories like the OP. A flock could just be...

Perhaps not, but its the only solution in a world where wild birds are going to be mobile reservoirs of it across all boundaries. Medieval scorched earth tactics are just exercises in feel-good ignorance.

I blame ignorance of the principle of survival of the fittest and of the newest science that shows: 1. Wild birds develope immunity to bird flu. 2. Parent birds that develop immunity will pass it on to their offspring. This is why bird flu isn’t causing armageddon among wild bird...

I am an attorney, but my area of expertise is criminal law, not Eminent Domain. So this is not legal advice, just my musings. The government is allowed to seize your property under the Constitution for the public good, but they are supposed to provide just compensation for doing so. I have read...

I’ve long said the government’s approach to disease management is wrong headed. The solution isn’t to cull the birds that beat it, but instead allow the birds that will live to live and those that will die to die and let the survivors reproduce and pass their immunities down. Problem solved...