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Maybe don't associate people who work with livestock with the actual livestock?
Sheep are culled.
Let's not make such implications.
Also, it's not their fault that their employers are not giving them the necessary protective gear.
"Sheeple" by definition means people. It's an extremely common term. Are you trying to make a joke here? If so I missed it.
Trump's plan to let the previous pandemic virus work its way through the population was a culling, of the worker class, so long as the elite class remained on their private yachts away from it all then the virus could just sweep through the population unchecked with no need for monetary aid to try to mitigate its ravages, i.e. bUt ThE eCoNoMy ThO. And it was very "successful" too, killing off more people than all wars combined iirc, and primarily affecting those at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder, yet leaving the billionaire class mostly untouched.
I have no idea where you got "people who work with livestock" from - OP was talking about conservatives here, e.g. "It’s the rural areas that, generally, didn’t take COVID seriously" means like governors of those states and people who vote for them, made all the more obvious by statements such as the last sentence "I imagine that the conspiracy theories about the Biden administration deliberately infecting cows with H5N1 over 5G networks have already started." Can you explain how you translated this into "people who work with livestock"?
Anyway yes, the people who work with livestock probably do need protective gear now that the threat is becoming apparent. I went off on an attempt at a deep dive trying to find out how widespread use of PPP is for poultry workers where the threat has already been known since long ago but I am no expect there so figured I'd leave it for someone who truly knows to speak.
From the headline and article?
"Dairy worker bird flu case shows need for protective gear, US CDC study shows"
I don't know why you would think that I would be heartlessly trying to blame either the animal victims or the human worker victims of this horrible set of circumstances (both of whose lives may be shitty enough without adding such to the mix) - that's literally not what the word "sheeple" means - but okay, I edited the original comment to make it more clear that I meant those responsible for allowing it to continue forward from that point onwards, thereby transforming it from a random tragedy into a deliberate choice.
Which to aim for even higher clarity, affects not only their own personal lives, but all of our society as well, who will subsequently come into contact with one of those who deliberately made the choice to listen to a policymaker who flunked STEM before dropping out of high school, yet now sets themselves up to literally put scientists in actual jail for daring to contradict the authorities.