An accurate accounting of just how many chickens have been slaughtered in the name of The Science in the name of combatting a virus that has never been shown to transmit from human to human and is vanishingly rare even with the occasional fraudulent PCR positive they can gin up would be difficult to ascertain.
But even by corporate state media metrics, its in the hundreds of millions.
Via CBS News (emphasis added):
Whether it's ducks or chickens, since the current strain of bird flu, H5N1, reached the United States in 2022, over 148 million birds have been ordered euthanized.
"It's a staggering number, there is no doubt," said Jodie Guest, a professor of epidemiology with Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health in Atlanta. "But it is, and always has been a policy across administrations, with the USDA, that this is how they handle infections like this among poultry. And as we've seen bird flu move [across] species, it becomes even more important to try to contain that infection in the flocks that it's in, so that we don't continue to see spread."
Poster Comment:
You can thank Bill Gates. He paid $12.5 million to the man who crossed bird flu with the Spanish flu.