California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) has declared a state of emergency, this time citing an unusual detection of bird flu in dairy cows.
Newsom’s latest proclamation, announced Wednesday, purports to “streamline” the state’s response to the emerging threat.
However, critics are already questioning whether this is another instance of government overreach under the guise of protecting public health.
According to the governor’s office, the emergency declaration grants “additional flexibility around staffing, contracting, and other rules,” ostensibly to enhance California’s response efforts.
To date, 34 cases of bird flu have been confirmed in humans statewide, all linked to exposure to infected cattle.
Alarmingly, the first case involving a child—reportedly tied to drinking raw milk—was detected last month, though the child has since recovered.
“This proclamation is a targeted action to ensure government agencies have the resources and flexibility they need to respond quickly to this outbreak,” Newsom claimed in a statement.
The governor emphasized California’s testing and monitoring system, lauded as the “largest in the nation,” while vowing to protect public health and the state’s agricultural sector.
Newsom was quick to downplay the risks, stating, “While the risk to the public remains low, we will continue to take all necessary steps to prevent the spread of this virus.”
Yet, skeptics note the glaring inconsistencies in the administration’s narrative.
For months, federal health authorities have maintained that bird flu poses minimal danger to the general public, concentrating instead on protecting farmworkers who handle potentially infected livestock.
Why, then, the need for such sweeping emergency measures in a state that already boasts robust testing systems?
Adding to the confusion, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed this week the first severe case of H5N1 bird flu in Louisiana—an entirely different strain that was contracted through contact with infected backyard poultry.
The strain found in California’s dairy cows, according to experts, appears unrelated, raising more questions than answers about the true scale and nature of the threat.
Newsom is a fool. Less than 40 so called cases of bird flu, no one has died and he wants to shut all the farmers down. But a bio weapon jab kills thousands and he wants people to keep getting them. The man is evil.
Yup here we go again. Buckle up people, the dems are releasing another pandemic to mess up Trumps attempt to fix the economy.
Gov. Nuisance is way more than a fool. He like Gov. Widmer of Michigan are power hungry authoritarians AKA as wannabee dictators. I doubt very seriously that drinking raw milk resulted in getting the bird flu if one knows anything about the process of milk creation. All female mammals create milk as food for their offspring. While doing that, a substance called Colostrum that is full of antibodies or better known as killer cells pass along the mothers immunity. to it’s offspring. Amish people are known for their refusal to cave to the governments ban on consuming raw milk. Amish communities historically have less illnesses of all types. Consuming raw milk is their first ingestion of the immunity from the mother and the Amish community in general. The raw milk ban is. the government gift to the massive multi-billion dollar commercial dairy industry.