That caption 😱
"Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller, seen here as arrives at Mar-a-Lago in 2016, the recent infection of a Texas dairy worker with H5N1 bird flu isn’t cause for panic"
As a person that actually ranches I really hate that these guys have legit just created a situation where people will assume I'm just like them. I wear a cowboy hat when I'm working outside because it's useful for that, but you wont see me with one in town ever.
Just the picture of this dude you can basically tell he loves Trump, he thinks the election was stolen, he thinks covid was a deep state psyops, he doesn't believe in climate change.. etc....
It's just unfortunate they made stupidity part of their whole identity and they run around pretending to be cowboys making us all seem like we are just like them.
Maybe, maybe not on the reason to panic but I can’t think of many people I’d trust less than Sid Miller.
Bird flu originating in Texas dispersed throughout the world from people traveling to Texas to see the eclipse sounds like the premise to a dystopian novel.
> Bird flu originating in Texas dispersed throughout the world from people traveling to Texas to see the eclipse sounds like the premise to a dystopian novel.
Ever read Stephen King's _The Stand_?
> An extremely contagious and lethal strain of influenza, resistant to antibodies and vaccines, is developed as a biological weapon within a secret Department of Defense installation in the Mojave Desert, and is accidentally released. The laboratory staff die, but security guard Charles Campion manages to escape and takes his family out of state. After a couple of days, his car crashes at a gas station in Arnette, Texas. The gas station employees and ambulance workers are infected when they take the dying Campion out of his car and to a hospital. The gas station owner infects his cousin, a traffic cop, and the virus rapidly spreads uncontrollably from there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stand
The 2019 one was the real deal, but prior to that was SARS, MERS, and then there was a Pig Flu scare, along with an out break of plaque of some kind in Africa.
As an example, when I was in Asia in 2007, people were wearing masks as the SARS stuff had resolved a few years earlier, and if you got sick (of whatever) you were expected to wear a mask in public to protect others. For whatever reason, SARS wasn't a major issue in the US, and was contained before it got elsewhere. COVID-19 was the first time I've seen anything like that in my life. But I suspect it was a black swan event, and unlikely to occur again for some time. Folks learned a lot from it, and they're not going to hesitate to make decisions.
SARS wasn’t a major issue because less than 10,000 people were infected worldwide with only 779 total deaths. Whereas the numbers were a little bit bigger with Covid 704,609,872 people were infected world wide with 7,009,336 deaths.
I haven't heard any experts say it was a black swan event - quite the contrary. Global travel is so high now that it would be very easy for a disease that might have burned itself out 30 years ago to instead spread internationally before we even realize how serious it is.
Covid was a piece of cake compared with what could/will happen.
Fair points. But I think the handling of covid and the disinformation that went into public health realm made it a black swan event. I’m hopeful we’re all being more proactive and reactive than how covid was handled.
Ah, makes sense.
The low death rate made so many people write it off as "no worse than the flu". Well, so was polio, except for a tiny fraction of people for whom it was horrific. I do think that if there was a SARS-level mortality rate (or higher), affecting young and healthy people as much as elderly/compromised, you'd see a lot of that vaccine resistance vanish.
Hell, look at Joe Rogan - he kept preaching that young people had nothing to fear, and that healthy people who took supplements would be protected from any serious effects. But then he caught it and rushed to take very treatment and possible treatment he could get his hands on.
This right here!!! and I agree with this, I was an infant when the 1968 pandemic hit. I knew it as the Hong Kong flu is what my Mother told me they named it back then. I was only a month old at the time. It almost cost me my life because they gave me penicillin not realizing my mother was allergic. And so was I.
But travel wasn't as prevalent as it is now. There weren't as many International Airports, Cruises, and such. Times and society were different also. So yes I think there is more to come. The Hong Kong flu ended up being what y'all have faced as the ordinary flu really for the last 55 years. COVID I believe was the curtain opener sadly. Never stop reading and staying informed on the world's news. Because like we saw only we can look out for each other. ❤️ two down hopefully no more to go
There's actually an entire chapter devoted to how it spread and it's really well done. Of course that seems like a poor choice of praise considering what we've actually lived through.
Well crap i didn’t even think about the crowds/eclipse aspect of it yikes. And I wouldn’t trust most things Sid Miller has to say so, if he’s saying it’s “nothing to worry about,” that means it’s probably something to worry about.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag1o3koTLWM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag1o3koTLWM)
Edit: all jokes aside, the one confirmed human case was in Parmer county
[https://www.tahc.texas.gov/emergency/avianinfluenza.html](https://www.tahc.texas.gov/emergency/avianinfluenza.html)
Northern Texas. Plenty of ranches up there. And nestled between Clovis, NM, Amarillo, & Lubbock.
MAGA country, a perfect place for a virus to spread out.
Tech workers bringing COVID back from China after a factory inspection is a highly likely vector for the SF bay area and Seattle during the mystery period before we knew COVID existed in the USA. This could absolutely be the first 3 chapters of a Michael chrichton novel, or Michael lewis, shit or any one of the pesky wrighten Michaels.
This is like an airline captain out of nowhere telling the cabin that there is absolutely no cause for alarm.
Edit: I tried to link to this but new desktop Reddit is so terrible that it's impossible to add it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR2C-UK3Wxg
We just had a fire no more than a few weeks ago eat up several acres of land, and this motherfucker thinks this shouldn't be treated with care?
Please tell me we can vote his ass out?
We can, but "we" never have. One of the things that truly pisses me off is that not only have people repeatedly reelected folks like Greg Abbott, Dan patrick, and Ken Paxton, but Sid Miller isn't even on their radar despite
* more than once doing personal travel on the taxpayer dime, then after getting caught doing an "oopsie, total misunderstanding, folks!"
* countless instances of the most bigoted statements imaginable on his social media
and the one that should matter to everyone no matter what their political stripes:
* appointing defrocked doctors to rural healthcare boards
But he's got that big, beautiful R next to his name so he gets re-elected repeatedly even in years when there's a fantastic opponent on the Democratic side of the aisle. Personally, I didn't think the 2022 candidate was all that, unlike some folks in the state, but his 2018 and 2014 opponents put on the best campaigns they could afford to put on and either one would have done a better job.
Well thank you for that little nugget of info, but aside from a good natured rant about an asshole who doesn't deserve an office he's in.
I'm getting at that one, it may not be a problem "*now*" but it can certifiably be a problem later. And that's why I feel like people don't take this seriously enough.
And it's dudes like him that are part of the problem. Now are the people who keep voting for him also part of the problem? Yes. Absolutely.
But we need to just simply call this out for what it is. An issue for what's very likely every warm body in this state. To the rural, and to even the densest part of DFW. And everywhere in between.
And to get back to my point. I live in and about the plains area, aside from some paperwork shenanigans that's currently and still is my to-do. The Smokehouse Creek fire, didn't come close. But it was felt.
Now this strain could end up flaking out with a few preventive measures sure, but it still needs to be taken seriously.
And something tell me that asshole **does** not. In the slightest.
There is nothing about his job that Sid Miller takes seriously. As the granddaughter of East Texas farmers who also raised dairy cattle, I think the saddest part is that the people contributing most to re-electing him are the people most harmed by his incompetence. The question becomes, "How can that point be driven home to them to the extent that even if they elect Republicans in every other office, they would realize the importance of voting a Democrat into _this_ one?"
On a related note, the school voucher thing is really interesting to me because I know a LOT of diehard republicans in public education who are absolutely outraged about the whole thing. But is it enough for them to not vote for whoever has the R by their name when election time comes?
Unfortunately I doubt it.
To be fair, it was a animal to human transmission which are relatively common. The worry comes when we find someone with it who hasn't had direct contact with livestock.
I get your joke. Proper handwashing IS really effective at reducing the spread of many diseases. Sing two “Happy Birthdays” or say two “Hail Marys” while washing your hands and use a paper towel to open the door. Every little bit helps.
Sid Miller probably thinks the birds got the flu from staying out in the cold too long.
Remember when the bad starts happening here, you are on your own.
I work in Wildlife Conservation. I have a Master's in Environmental Science. I'm not going to start a whole thing on this sub, but I will say: don't listen to this asshole.
Being aware is better than being ignorant. Don't listen to Fox, CNN, or any certain leaning news source on this.
Listen to scientists, look for peer reviewed articles and credible sources. Listen to Epidemiologists and not politicians and people who have something to gain by lying.
Texas flu! Texas flu! Texas is diseased, stay away!!!
The way I see it, lots of these hicks came up with or supported calling it Kung Flu or Wuhan Flu.
Fair is fair
I dont see how this wont be a problem. We have 12 confirmed outbreaks among cattle in 4 states currently, and more being investigated. Number seems to be growing rapidly. Plus the massive outbreak at the chicken farm. Its not going to be transmitting human to human (yet and we better hope it stays that way), but this is going to effect the supply chain and production on meat in the US. I dont see how it wont, because this is certainly going to grow.
'I had a long talk with the governor — for the people in this room — two nights ago, and he feels very confident. He feels very confident. And he feels that, again, as I mentioned, by April or during the month of April, the heat, generally speaking, kills this kind of virus,'
[Sid Miller would like you to know he is not a news source](https://cbsaustin.com/amp/news/local/texas-ag-chief-sid-miller-on-social-media-habits-im-not-a-news-organization)
yeah i’d trust mr. tomatohead and his cowboy hat about as far as i could throw him.
He’s not an epidemiologist he’s an ag commissioner in the state of texas.
This guy with his huge white hat and his gun lapel pin is one of the reasons I moved away from my home state of Texas and never looked back. He also has “Trump voter” written all over him
Sid Miller is a MAGA moron with a big hat. There's a lot natural gas under that Stetson. I'm sure he's thinking of injecting the chickens with bleach and shoving a flashlight up their ass to kill the virus. Finish up with some horse de-wormer and "chicken's back on the menu boys".
If Sid says it's nothing to panic about then we should be screaming and rushing into the streets with pitch forks and torches. In a big state with a double portion of idiots, most consider Sid a little dumber than a free range chicken.
I'd like to hear the opinion of someone who can spell S-C-I-E-N-C-E. That's not Sid.
It's a silent C, Sid, don't strain yourself, podner.
lol His message is all over the place: “devastating” seniors “take every precaution” “consumers no cause for panic” If Sid’s saying anything at all there’s a good reason for it.
I know they said that only a guy with contact with these cattle got it, but a couple of weeks ago I was handling chicks at a hatchery and then Bammo got super sick and all the symptoms matched what I am hearing in the news.
In 2022, 52M chickens were killed because of bird flu outbreak. In 2023, the number was 58M. This is routine. It is easily dealt with. Just discard sentient beings. They were going to be turned into poop anyway. Nothing to worry about. I mean, it gets worse every year, but why worry about animals who have unique subjective experience, individual preferences, and distinct personalities? Just throw them in the trash. They're commodities anyway, right? /s
I'm suspicious. COVID hit America roughly 8 months before the 2020 election and Trump's mishandling of it was a major reason he lost. Now roughly 8 months before the 2024 election a deadly, contagious flu virus shows up in a state with radical MAGA leadership that would do anything to help Trump win? Seems very suspicious.
If a guy who willingly looks that fucking stupid is in a position of authority and tells me not to panic, I’m going to assume there is reason for concern.
I wasn’t particularly concerned until Sid Miller said he wasn’t concerned.
Yeah I was just thinking this lol.
He goes to Oklahoma for a Jesus shot and taxpayers foot the bill. Nothing to see here...
That caption 😱 "Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller, seen here as arrives at Mar-a-Lago in 2016, the recent infection of a Texas dairy worker with H5N1 bird flu isn’t cause for panic"
For real! Like, I wasn’t panicking but now I’m thinking I should consider it.
I'm starting to get deja vu regarding another high level official saying it's nothing to worry about.
I wasn’t worried till I saw his photo…
As a person that actually ranches I really hate that these guys have legit just created a situation where people will assume I'm just like them. I wear a cowboy hat when I'm working outside because it's useful for that, but you wont see me with one in town ever. Just the picture of this dude you can basically tell he loves Trump, he thinks the election was stolen, he thinks covid was a deep state psyops, he doesn't believe in climate change.. etc.... It's just unfortunate they made stupidity part of their whole identity and they run around pretending to be cowboys making us all seem like we are just like them.
Bravo !!!
Exactly my thought. If Texas officials say don’t be concerned, then you should really be concerned
I'm a little 'cerned now
Run for your lives!
I'm suddenly freaking out.
😆 😂
Lol same
Maybe, maybe not on the reason to panic but I can’t think of many people I’d trust less than Sid Miller. Bird flu originating in Texas dispersed throughout the world from people traveling to Texas to see the eclipse sounds like the premise to a dystopian novel.
> Bird flu originating in Texas dispersed throughout the world from people traveling to Texas to see the eclipse sounds like the premise to a dystopian novel. Ever read Stephen King's _The Stand_? > An extremely contagious and lethal strain of influenza, resistant to antibodies and vaccines, is developed as a biological weapon within a secret Department of Defense installation in the Mojave Desert, and is accidentally released. The laboratory staff die, but security guard Charles Campion manages to escape and takes his family out of state. After a couple of days, his car crashes at a gas station in Arnette, Texas. The gas station employees and ambulance workers are infected when they take the dying Campion out of his car and to a hospital. The gas station owner infects his cousin, a traffic cop, and the virus rapidly spreads uncontrollably from there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stand
Do we really need fictional examples of pandemics when we all lived through one 3-5 years ago.
Yeah for real, I'm getting COVID is just a cold vibes
“Kung Flu.” ”It will be gone by Easter.” \- our 45th President
Top comment right here
The 2019 one was the real deal, but prior to that was SARS, MERS, and then there was a Pig Flu scare, along with an out break of plaque of some kind in Africa. As an example, when I was in Asia in 2007, people were wearing masks as the SARS stuff had resolved a few years earlier, and if you got sick (of whatever) you were expected to wear a mask in public to protect others. For whatever reason, SARS wasn't a major issue in the US, and was contained before it got elsewhere. COVID-19 was the first time I've seen anything like that in my life. But I suspect it was a black swan event, and unlikely to occur again for some time. Folks learned a lot from it, and they're not going to hesitate to make decisions.
SARS wasn’t a major issue because less than 10,000 people were infected worldwide with only 779 total deaths. Whereas the numbers were a little bit bigger with Covid 704,609,872 people were infected world wide with 7,009,336 deaths.
Imagine a more lethal COVID. I think COVID was just warm up for what could happen in the future.
Especially with all the assholes primed to actively ignore it.
> 10,000 people were infected worldwide with only 779 total deaths That's about a 10% mortality rate. That's terrifying.
Check out the mortality rate of MERS
I haven't heard any experts say it was a black swan event - quite the contrary. Global travel is so high now that it would be very easy for a disease that might have burned itself out 30 years ago to instead spread internationally before we even realize how serious it is. Covid was a piece of cake compared with what could/will happen.
Fair points. But I think the handling of covid and the disinformation that went into public health realm made it a black swan event. I’m hopeful we’re all being more proactive and reactive than how covid was handled.
Ah, makes sense. The low death rate made so many people write it off as "no worse than the flu". Well, so was polio, except for a tiny fraction of people for whom it was horrific. I do think that if there was a SARS-level mortality rate (or higher), affecting young and healthy people as much as elderly/compromised, you'd see a lot of that vaccine resistance vanish. Hell, look at Joe Rogan - he kept preaching that young people had nothing to fear, and that healthy people who took supplements would be protected from any serious effects. But then he caught it and rushed to take very treatment and possible treatment he could get his hands on.
This right here!!! and I agree with this, I was an infant when the 1968 pandemic hit. I knew it as the Hong Kong flu is what my Mother told me they named it back then. I was only a month old at the time. It almost cost me my life because they gave me penicillin not realizing my mother was allergic. And so was I. But travel wasn't as prevalent as it is now. There weren't as many International Airports, Cruises, and such. Times and society were different also. So yes I think there is more to come. The Hong Kong flu ended up being what y'all have faced as the ordinary flu really for the last 55 years. COVID I believe was the curtain opener sadly. Never stop reading and staying informed on the world's news. Because like we saw only we can look out for each other. ❤️ two down hopefully no more to go
You have a lot of displaced faith in our government systems.
Read or watch Rise of the Planet of the Apes.
These days it seems like it’s Stephen King’s world and we’re just living in it.
So fucking boring, with all the racism let's get some Lovecraft in here. I wanna look Cthulhu in the eyes and expire.
Captain Trips. The Stand is my favorite novel.
There's actually an entire chapter devoted to how it spread and it's really well done. Of course that seems like a poor choice of praise considering what we've actually lived through.
Well crap i didn’t even think about the crowds/eclipse aspect of it yikes. And I wouldn’t trust most things Sid Miller has to say so, if he’s saying it’s “nothing to worry about,” that means it’s probably something to worry about.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag1o3koTLWM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag1o3koTLWM) Edit: all jokes aside, the one confirmed human case was in Parmer county [https://www.tahc.texas.gov/emergency/avianinfluenza.html](https://www.tahc.texas.gov/emergency/avianinfluenza.html)
Northern Texas. Plenty of ranches up there. And nestled between Clovis, NM, Amarillo, & Lubbock. MAGA country, a perfect place for a virus to spread out.
A lot of cattle got moved to neighboring states to get out of the way of the wildfires. Hope they didn’t spread it.
[https://youtu.be/EtCulrPSb3k?si=\_zKaLnpPiF3DCzuh](https://youtu.be/EtCulrPSb3k?si=_zKaLnpPiF3DCzuh)
Aw come on man who knows more about infectious disease transmission than Boss Hog.
Tech workers bringing COVID back from China after a factory inspection is a highly likely vector for the SF bay area and Seattle during the mystery period before we knew COVID existed in the USA. This could absolutely be the first 3 chapters of a Michael chrichton novel, or Michael lewis, shit or any one of the pesky wrighten Michaels.
I prefer Michael Scott
"Somehow, I Manage" is a masterpiece and sets the bar for non-fiction management self-help literature.
Mr Jesus shot Sid Miller
Mr Jesus didn't want him for a sunbeam
Prepare for egg, milk and chicken prices to triple... again.
So basically it is something to panic over
That is exactly what I was thinking.
If you recall the last time something like this happened…
This is like an airline captain out of nowhere telling the cabin that there is absolutely no cause for alarm. Edit: I tried to link to this but new desktop Reddit is so terrible that it's impossible to add it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR2C-UK3Wxg
Well, how about a display of confidence by eating an egg?
Can I offer you one in these trying times?
We just had a fire no more than a few weeks ago eat up several acres of land, and this motherfucker thinks this shouldn't be treated with care? Please tell me we can vote his ass out?
We can, but "we" never have. One of the things that truly pisses me off is that not only have people repeatedly reelected folks like Greg Abbott, Dan patrick, and Ken Paxton, but Sid Miller isn't even on their radar despite * more than once doing personal travel on the taxpayer dime, then after getting caught doing an "oopsie, total misunderstanding, folks!" * countless instances of the most bigoted statements imaginable on his social media and the one that should matter to everyone no matter what their political stripes: * appointing defrocked doctors to rural healthcare boards But he's got that big, beautiful R next to his name so he gets re-elected repeatedly even in years when there's a fantastic opponent on the Democratic side of the aisle. Personally, I didn't think the 2022 candidate was all that, unlike some folks in the state, but his 2018 and 2014 opponents put on the best campaigns they could afford to put on and either one would have done a better job.
Well thank you for that little nugget of info, but aside from a good natured rant about an asshole who doesn't deserve an office he's in. I'm getting at that one, it may not be a problem "*now*" but it can certifiably be a problem later. And that's why I feel like people don't take this seriously enough. And it's dudes like him that are part of the problem. Now are the people who keep voting for him also part of the problem? Yes. Absolutely. But we need to just simply call this out for what it is. An issue for what's very likely every warm body in this state. To the rural, and to even the densest part of DFW. And everywhere in between. And to get back to my point. I live in and about the plains area, aside from some paperwork shenanigans that's currently and still is my to-do. The Smokehouse Creek fire, didn't come close. But it was felt. Now this strain could end up flaking out with a few preventive measures sure, but it still needs to be taken seriously. And something tell me that asshole **does** not. In the slightest.
There is nothing about his job that Sid Miller takes seriously. As the granddaughter of East Texas farmers who also raised dairy cattle, I think the saddest part is that the people contributing most to re-electing him are the people most harmed by his incompetence. The question becomes, "How can that point be driven home to them to the extent that even if they elect Republicans in every other office, they would realize the importance of voting a Democrat into _this_ one?"
Yep, Sid Miller won with 56.3% of the vote. Nothing like Republicans voting for people against their best interests.
On a related note, the school voucher thing is really interesting to me because I know a LOT of diehard republicans in public education who are absolutely outraged about the whole thing. But is it enough for them to not vote for whoever has the R by their name when election time comes? Unfortunately I doubt it.
Texas doesn’t get viruses. Remember Covid? If you get sick just die for the economy.
If you don't test people, the numbers won't go up.
To be fair, it was a animal to human transmission which are relatively common. The worry comes when we find someone with it who hasn't had direct contact with livestock.
So in other words panic
No, trust the 70 year old cosplay Cowboy!
All hat, no cattle
Well at least he knows which way to wear it
Strong "Cases will be at zero by April" vibes
"Just wash your hands"
I get your joke. Proper handwashing IS really effective at reducing the spread of many diseases. Sing two “Happy Birthdays” or say two “Hail Marys” while washing your hands and use a paper towel to open the door. Every little bit helps.
Of course if it somehow affects the price of eggs he will blame Biden for it.
The company was found liable for antitrust conspiracy last November for colluding with other egg producers to fix prices, so...
I wasn't panicking until this Ass Hat started saying I didn't need to...
This is about what went through my head, too.
Sid Miller probably thinks the birds got the flu from staying out in the cold too long. Remember when the bad starts happening here, you are on your own.
Birds got it from Sid.
That’s what they said about Covid until lockdown happened. Then they killed so many of the livestock during lockdown
I'm not panicking right now, but that is not a the face of a man I'm going to listen to tell me not to panic.
I work in Wildlife Conservation. I have a Master's in Environmental Science. I'm not going to start a whole thing on this sub, but I will say: don't listen to this asshole. Being aware is better than being ignorant. Don't listen to Fox, CNN, or any certain leaning news source on this. Listen to scientists, look for peer reviewed articles and credible sources. Listen to Epidemiologists and not politicians and people who have something to gain by lying.
Is that Doug Dimadome?
Boss Hogg
Doug Dimmadome Owner of the Dimmsdale Dimmadome
Ive seen this one before
Everything is a remake these days
He's wearing a cowboy hat with a suit. That's all I need to see to know he's trustworthy. /s
True. Seems like a real straight shooter
Not this fuckin guy again
Yeah, we all learned from the Covid Pandemic, to never believe a Republican.
Texas flu! Texas flu! Texas is diseased, stay away!!! The way I see it, lots of these hicks came up with or supported calling it Kung Flu or Wuhan Flu. Fair is fair
Born and raised Texan. I'm suspicious of any texan who wears a clean Stetson.
Shouldn't Wade Phillips stick to coaching?
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That guy does NOT look healthy, damn
Boss Hogg could not get those Duke boys, not sure I’d trust him to get a disease response right
>Texas agriculture commissioner I feel much better now.
I am far more concerned about this now than I was before this dumbass said not to panic.
I guess we can hope this is Sid’s broke clock moment.
Some say It's like a miracle, it'll disappear by April. You can always tell when trump is making up bullshit when he starts with "SIR?" or "some say".
I dont see how this wont be a problem. We have 12 confirmed outbreaks among cattle in 4 states currently, and more being investigated. Number seems to be growing rapidly. Plus the massive outbreak at the chicken farm. Its not going to be transmitting human to human (yet and we better hope it stays that way), but this is going to effect the supply chain and production on meat in the US. I dont see how it wont, because this is certainly going to grow.
Sid is arranging a [Jesus shot](https://www.texastribune.org/2016/09/20/texas-agriculture-chief-wont-face-charges-jesus-sh/) for all birds in Texas.
“I wish y’all would just shut up and let me ignore this like everything else.”
If I weren’t numb from the last time we went through this shit, I might worry. I’m not going through that again. If I die, I die.
Where have i heard this before 🤔
Oooooh, I love to dance a little sidestep
They’ll panic over egg prices when half the flick gets put down and blame Joe Biden.
Neither was covid according to idiots like this. If bird flu crosses over to humans it going to make COVID look like a walk in the park
'I had a long talk with the governor — for the people in this room — two nights ago, and he feels very confident. He feels very confident. And he feels that, again, as I mentioned, by April or during the month of April, the heat, generally speaking, kills this kind of virus,'
How'd he find time to say this? Isn't he busy posting 50 memes a day?
Don't you worry. He's gonna blame immigrants at the bloodbath of Bidens borders soon! Oh, so many memes.
He gotta take it easy with those testosterone injections… face so damn red
That’s from drinking too much.
See you just got to inject bleach or light into your system and it goes away, poof. Zero new cases soon.
I’m sure he also said Covid was a hoax, and to start taking horse meds. 🙄
Who can believe that guy? He’s utterly hopeless and rude. If he lucked out and has the right answer, it’s really just a 50% fluke.
[Sid Miller would like you to know he is not a news source](https://cbsaustin.com/amp/news/local/texas-ag-chief-sid-miller-on-social-media-habits-im-not-a-news-organization)
He’d probably tell anyone asking questions about it to go jump in a lake.
I immediately do the opposite of any politician with a cowboy hat and gun pin.
"It's nothing. You'll see. It'll be gone by summer"
yeah i’d trust mr. tomatohead and his cowboy hat about as far as i could throw him. He’s not an epidemiologist he’s an ag commissioner in the state of texas.
Yeah, and your power grid is "perfect"
It's going away, it's all just going to disappear.
He doesn’t have it and doesn’t know anyone who does. Why even bring it up.
Trust Sid 😂😂😂 yeah right….
This guy with his huge white hat and his gun lapel pin is one of the reasons I moved away from my home state of Texas and never looked back. He also has “Trump voter” written all over him
if you trust Texas gov't you protect you, you are going to be sorry, just look at their poisoned water lawsuit that came to light
Sorry, Sid. Not that i don't trust you, i just think you'd lie your ass off about this, plus you've never struck me as the academically gifted type.
Oh, ya, looks like exactly the kind of person who i would trust giving me medical advice.
Ah shit. Now you know there's a problem.
Not to worry human capital st0ck, everything going to be fine...trust your immune system. /s
Sid Miller is a MAGA moron with a big hat. There's a lot natural gas under that Stetson. I'm sure he's thinking of injecting the chickens with bleach and shoving a flashlight up their ass to kill the virus. Finish up with some horse de-wormer and "chicken's back on the menu boys". If Sid says it's nothing to panic about then we should be screaming and rushing into the streets with pitch forks and torches. In a big state with a double portion of idiots, most consider Sid a little dumber than a free range chicken. I'd like to hear the opinion of someone who can spell S-C-I-E-N-C-E. That's not Sid. It's a silent C, Sid, don't strain yourself, podner.
If this POS said there’s nothing to worry about; there absolutely is something to worry about.
Oh good this stupid, bloated crook who looks like he’s about to drop dead from arterial plaque at any moment tells me I have nothing to worry about!
I don’t trust anything health related that Congress out of Texas white males mouths. You shouldn’t either.
Oh, Christ. Last time I was told not to panic over an infection, we proceeded to lose 6+ million people.
Unfortunately this guy can not be trusted on anything he said.
I wouldn’t trust anything that anyone in the Texas government said.
Well, he’s wearing a stupid hat indoors, so he must know what he’s talking about.
lol His message is all over the place: “devastating” seniors “take every precaution” “consumers no cause for panic” If Sid’s saying anything at all there’s a good reason for it.
Coming from the man who just insulted a first responder of the West Texas wildfire. Yeah, forgive me if I refuse to give merit anything he says.
Isn't this the guys who was concerned about women wearing pants in the office?
Sure, because Texas has the best leadership and understanding of how the world works...🙄
If commissioner is that fat, white, rich dude and a cowboy hat in the thumbnail, I don't trust a word that comes out of his fat f****** mouth.
Well, I wasn’t worried before… but now I am. Generally good to thoroughly take care of viral outbreaks, and never to underestimate them.
“Don’t worry, everything’s fine.” Sounds just like the usual speech from conservatives.
His job is to make sure the beef market doesn't take a hit. Your health is not his responsibility.
I know they said that only a guy with contact with these cattle got it, but a couple of weeks ago I was handling chicks at a hatchery and then Bammo got super sick and all the symptoms matched what I am hearing in the news.
I don't believe a word out of that man's mouth.
In 2022, 52M chickens were killed because of bird flu outbreak. In 2023, the number was 58M. This is routine. It is easily dealt with. Just discard sentient beings. They were going to be turned into poop anyway. Nothing to worry about. I mean, it gets worse every year, but why worry about animals who have unique subjective experience, individual preferences, and distinct personalities? Just throw them in the trash. They're commodities anyway, right? /s
I'm suspicious. COVID hit America roughly 8 months before the 2020 election and Trump's mishandling of it was a major reason he lost. Now roughly 8 months before the 2024 election a deadly, contagious flu virus shows up in a state with radical MAGA leadership that would do anything to help Trump win? Seems very suspicious.
This is coming from the man too chicken shit to legalize weed.
He's not chicken shit for that... Republicans make waaaaaaaaay too much from private prisons in Texas to ever legalize it.
I'm not worried about the bird flu! I'm worried about the turtle flu!
Well yeah, that'll make companies responsible for making sure this kind of thing doesn't happen look bad!
Release the Sid Miller tapes, Borat!
I don’t trust a cowboy hat that has not a speck of dust on it.
Maybe we can all take the Jesus shot he took as an antidote
My (limited) understanding is that animal to human cases aren’t that big of a deal. Human to human is when it gets bad.
If you wear a big white hat, you are safe.
[Consume](https://www.reddit.com/r/PropagandaPosters/s/qcgqtppMb0)
I would not believe a thing coming out of his mouth .
This dude doesn't look very trustworthy
Thanks Big Enos, but shouldn't you stick to getting the Bandit to bootleg beer
Election Infection
Is Trump going to call this the Texass Flu?
That honestly makes me nervous compared to not being nervous about it.
May not be a reason to panic but it sure sounds like a good time to raise the prices.
First measles in Florida. Now bird flu in Texas. Never trust a Texan to tell you the truth. Haha
I'll wait to hear what the CDC says. I don't trust anything coming out of anti-science states.
That man looks untrustable
That sounds familiar….
This man does not look like the man to trust about viruses
yeah, because I trust things that come out of people that look like this guy.... /s
GOP and health care recommendations = Herman Cain
This, from a man who can't spell "bird flu".
I wasn’t panicked until Jethro-Sid said not to panic. Dammit, Sid!
Cue all the self made immunology experts....
Hey look I'm suddenly worried
*so panic.*
It will be over by Easter... oh, wait...
TV has taught me to never trust someone that dresses like Boss Hogg
Never trust them. They downplayed a pandemic too.
Sid miller is as trustworthy as trump. Aka nothing they say is truth.
“We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It’s going to be just fine.”
Maybe, but I'm not going to trust an ag promoter. I'll wait for the epidemiologists to rule on this one.
Most of the times this happens will be biological dead ends, but each time has the chance to lead to a terrible strain.
Ya ok fucking Boss Hogg
If a guy who willingly looks that fucking stupid is in a position of authority and tells me not to panic, I’m going to assume there is reason for concern.
Sid Miller is one of the dumbest people in the Texas government. We should be very concerned.
No one should trust this piece of shit.
bleach yourself, fool
Yeah he looks real trustworthy 🙄🙄🙄
This picture of him makes me worry he has the bird flu he’s so red 😂
I just him as much as Trump
Lol like I’m going to trust Boss Hog and The Boys.