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I think US media outlets mentioned the teenager in British Columbia who had bird flu. There wasn't much follow-up. TL;DR - It was terrible. She lived through it. Have a NEJM article about how long and how much intervention that outcome required. If it becomes common, it will be 2020 all over again, but worse. There won't be enough equipment and meds to go around.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2415890

I am making no predictions about spread. I report (second hand, because I'm not on reddit) that a number of people who keep hens in their yards have been bringing sick ones INTO THE HOUSE to care for them. No. Don't do that. It may not be very many, because the web amplifies stories like that, but sheesh.

What is the point of all that death?

As I mentioned here:
https://lauradi7dw.dreamwidth.org/905281.html
I went to see "Harbin." It was at the AMC on Causeway Street that I'm not sure I knew existed, even though I walk by the entrance from time to time (It's next to the food hall at North Station). Very vertical.
Trailer here, longer than the one I linked to before: 
https://youtu.be/APwvisWxjaI?feature=shared
Parts were very gory, as one might imagine in a war (rebellion, technically). Every indoor scene was full of cigarette smoke. I remember when public places were like that (although I was not alive in 1909), but how was that even affordable by people on the run? It was gross to see, although not as much so as the hand-to-hand slaughter in one battle scene.
The big successful mission that is the second hour's plot made the Japanese overlords even madder, so it was pointless. It was another 36 years before Korea dumped the Japanese (I was about to say "for good," but that might be tempting fate). Then of course one starts to think about how pointless war usually is. What would the world have been like if people just stayed where they were and didn't try to take over other people's stuff or space? Or kill each other for religious or racist reasons? None of us would exist if history had been like that, but probably some other people would.
I was wishing for maps. Would it really be possible to go on horseback from snowy Vladivostok to desert-dry Manchuria in a couple of days? I don't think there were any cars, although they existed in the world in 1909. Carriages, horses (one of the words I know), trains (another word I know)* So many trains! Running on schedule, more or less, although part of the schedule included the necessity to change trains once the Russian boarder was crossed, due to gauge issues. Beards. I had seen the claim that actor Lee Dong-Wook was unrecognizable. Nope. I was not misled by the beard and haircut, although I admit in most dramas his face looks air-brushed smooth. But he was one of only three actors I recognized.

I have been watching the ongoing current situation in Seoul from my comfy home, worried and bemused and disbelieving. Quotation from a Yonhap news story:
"Yoon's team claims immunity from insurrection charges, citing Trump ruling"
It is true that the US has troops there # and many of Yoon's followers are Evangelical Christian Trump fans, but South Korea has its own Supreme Court. I don't think the Trump ruling is admissible.

* other words that popped out at me - two. mother. brother. husband. alcohol. now. kill. Japan. newspaper. I don't know any weapon names except one of the words for sword, which was not used here.

# I only remember two trailers. One was called Valient One. IMDb blurb: "With tensions between North and South Korea, a US helicopter crashes on the North Korean side, now the survivors must work together to protect a civilian tech specialist and find their way out without the help of US military support."
Definitely not "Crash Landing on You." The other one I remember seeing seemed to be about smuggling diamonds. I remember nothing about the rest. The room was not full, although twenty people (?) at 11:15 AM is pretty good, I guess.