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Russia's economic struggles manifest in egg shortages, high prices, and a public health crisis due to imported eggs tainted with avian flu, challenging Putin's narrative of stability.
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The full transcript provides a detailed analysis of how economic challenges in Russia intertwine with public health risks, urging vigilance and early monitoring of emerging crises.
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Well, howdy there internet people, it's Bo again.
So today we are going to talk about Russia,
and Putin, and Turkey, and eggs, and birds,
and the economy, and public health,
and how it all ties together.
Because there has been a development
that is definitely worth paying attention to
because it might have some severe effects downstream.
Okay, so to bring everybody up to date on why all of this is happening, the Russian
economy is not doing well.
There are sanctions, there's a war, it's not doing well.
One of the places where this is incredibly visible is eggs.
Not just is there a shortage, but the inflation combined with the shortage makes the price
really really high. They're having a real issue with eggs in Russia and this is
something that is incredibly noticeable. Putin is trying to portray an economy
where everything is fine. The eggs tell a different story. In an attempt to
alleviate the egg issue in Russia, the government there imported some, imported
eggs from Turkey, and this was supposed to be a fix. However, upon testing it
looks like 1 in 5 of those eggs had H5N1 in the eggs, avian flu, and the bad
kind of avian flu. I mean it's all bad but H5N1 is a variation of it that
it's hard to transmit or harder to transmit person to person but the rates
of those people who do not recover from it pretty high. And the testing apparently
did not happen before some of them, some of the eggs got to market. So Russia is
now trying to put in place some public health measures. They're asking people
for blood samples, stuff like that, to try to get a handle on it and see if it did create an issue
and if it did, how bad, and what they can do to mitigate. So all of this is not good news for
Russia, especially given the current political climate, and it undercuts Putin's attempts at
portraying that everything is fine. And this is one of those things that is definitely going to
draw more attention to the economy as a whole because the reason it happened is because they
had to import the eggs from Turkey. It's a vicious cycle here. So we don't know, at least I haven't
been able to find any information about whether or not people were infected by the eggs, but it's
something we should probably keep an eye on because this is one of those things given,
events in 2020, anytime something like this starts we should probably start watching it early on.
Anyway, it's just a thought, y'all have a good day.
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