Canaries in the coal mine | Tracey McNamara | TEDxUCLA

[@stewynotthedog]

This is probably one of the most important TED talks I've seen.

[@traceymcnamara6223]

Thank you so much! Please share my message. I was speaking as a frustrated citizen and a taxpayer. We can have and deserve better biosurveillance!

[@turkvestule1668]

Yes it really is!

[@kanyakonsrimanopanithan]

No kidding, Bidens team needs to hire her!

[@lorissolfa]

Its brilliant as is she!

[@phillambrick]

this is an eye opener!

[@osamazookeeper]

An Egyptian veterinary student here, I hope Dr Mcnamra sees this. I'm writing a research about your discovery and how it changed the perception of people to veterinary medicine. Thank you. This talk was interesting and fun to watch.

[@pratikgautam4887]

Well, now I am beginning to understand why we need one health approach and things it can achieve. Thank you for your wonderful job and this talk.

[@haileypattern7666]

This is so great of you to share your knowledge and your concerns. If the government doesn't want to listen to you, we 'the people' do!

[@traceymcnamara6223]

Thanks so much Hailey. It is an uphill battle!

[@traceymcnamara6223]

Thank you Hailey! We taxpayers deserve better.

[@alantcase]

The prophet of 2021.

[@Birddog4843]

Great speech Tracey!!!!

[@jovitasardens207]

Holy moly I love this woman.

[@traceymcnamara6223]

Thank you for watching my talk! We all need to see clearly, shed old manners of thinking, and recognize it is time for much needed change.

[@jovitasardens207]

@@traceymcnamara6223 thank you for replying to me that's so cool. I am hopeful that Joe will make some of these tins happen!

[@traceymcnamara6223]

Thanks so much Alan. I truly believe public- private partnerships are the way forward. Empower the people who care about animals and have hands and eyes on them every day, give us the what we need to create real time veterinary epidemiological surveillance and we can help keep the public safe.

[@billyzwilliams]

This makes so much more sense. You're a legend Tracey, keep at it.

[@traceymcnamara6223]

@@billyzwilliams Thank you so much Billy! I have the ear of some very high level people right now. Fingers crossed they can make it happen!

[@DCteamtraceur]

Chilling Tracey. Sitting here with my young boy explaining what you're saying here, and then we looked at the date this was posted. Oh how money can buy the most expensive eye blinkers. Keep at it! Thank you for this talk.

[@traceymcnamara6223]

Michael - I am sorry you think my talk was not factual. It is. Given that we now have dogs, cats, zoo animals and captive and free-ranging mink with COVID-19, the points I made about the continued lack of species neutral biosurveillance in the USA have certainly been validated.

[@johncatholic2819]

What a brilliant woman! This talk should be making the rounds for sure. I remember reading an article that we pretty much could have avoided this last year had we listened more to what people were saying about some nasties that were found in some animals but not enough action was taken.

[@traceymcnamara6223]

Thanks John! One Health is a necessary and common sense approach to zoonotic threats but we have yet to implement it in the USA.

[@jessyclaston]

@@traceymcnamara6223 I am curious, are you any closer to having it implemented?

[@traceymcnamara6223]

@@jessyclaston Not in the USA. We will be spending hundreds of millions overseas but not here at home. Go figure!

[@GodAlone19Ali]

This lady is a hero. Love the scientist vs bureaucrat archetypal narrative

[@ehv1v592]

Hope this shakes a few cages over there! Very best from your colleagues at UNOTT in the UK

[@milagroczarnecki]

It better!

[@anonisanonymous]

If only we listened to the people who know, the people who have worked in the field, people who have seen, then maybe many more lives would be saved.

[@traceymcnamara6223]

Thank you.

[@laurenstynes]

A legend and she didn't even know. Good lord you've got to hear this.

[@traceymcnamara6223]

Thank you Laurens. It really will only take a slight shift in perspective for things to change. Let's admit our limitations and recognize that only in leveraging capabilities across all disciplines and species will we be able to make the world a safer place.

[@laurenstynes]

@@traceymcnamara6223 A wonderful talk, you are a natural teacher, thank you.

[@josuelepiere]

good share Lauren, thanks for sending!

[@annemery885]

I am not surprised she wasn't heard, men don't listen!

[@johncatholic2819]

great talk

[@leotencall]

She's intelligently hillarious. Made my day.

[@traceymcnamara6223]

Thank you so much! I gave this talk in 2018 and now we have COVID-19 in dogs, cats, lions, tigers, snow leopards, mink and who knows what else. Species neutral biosurveillance and a One Health approach must be implemented for the good of all!

[@traceymcnamara6223]

Thanks Leo! I will take that as a complement :)

[@leotencall]

@@traceymcnamara6223 haha, well it was meant to be.

[@briannavantifcampen]

Politicians never want to hear what-if questions. And we the people, have to face the worst results based on reluctance to answer them. I believe it's called denial.

[@traceymcnamara6223]

Brianna- You hit the nail on the head!

[@kyleharvey8900]

Watching this in 2021 - she called the coming of the novel Coronavirus and its impact on America.

[@austinjay9486]

I wish every person has the possibility, opportunity and the courage to open their own caged door!

[@milagroczarnecki]

"look across all species and recognize that we are all animals and these artificial man-made bureaucratic divisions are working against us" HOW TRUE IS THIS! Where was this lady when last year happened? i feel like she could have saved us from ourselves!

[@jessyclaston]

This one really got me hey. Hadn't thought about it like this before!

[@traceymcnamara6223]

Thank you for watching my talk Milagro! I wish I could say things have changed in the 21 years since West Nile virus but they have not. People like you need to ask our legislators why!

[@briannavantifcampen]

@@traceymcnamara6223 we try and do this in Australia, we protest too - they still don't listen.

[@janetpannel]

Great share Milagro!

[@judgekevin6935]

None of this really surprises me.

[@silencedxdesire]

❤️❤️❤️

[@clavo3352]

Wonderful examples of how to critically think. One would think that the Justice system would think the same way. The fact that the population is not sustaining anymore is a huge canary in the coal mine for our justice system.

[@Gspec5]

In a nutshell, Every pandemic has it’s roots in gain of function research. Thanks Dr. F@ucí

[@jordanlex5663]

This hits different now....

[@dianeabraham3763]

Gives us much to think about!

[@katerinaputin2002]

very good

[@Tarikataouba]

مرحبا بالجميع 🙏

[@jamesfreiwirth3252]

Wise words.

[@turkvestule1668]

The system will never change until people prefer to prevent rather than fight.

[@mariannemortimer7724]

As Tracey says, we must start making ourselves aware of what is being passed in our governments, we must start fighting for more funding, better research, sustainability! All of it. I can't even imagine the frustrating that this wonderful human would have to feel. I want to help.

[@maryjboffa]

This woman should be in Washington to ensure this pandemic doesn't happen again.

[@traceymcnamara6223]

Thanks Mary. I am working closely with a senator's office on One Health legislation - that is where change happens!

[@rheeslewis]

How have I not heard of this woman? Why is she not high in government helping plan?

[@traceymcnamara6223]

Hi Rhee. Thank you so much for your comment. Please help spread the word and get people to support One Health legislation!

[@pierrevilleneu]

The issue isn't what she has discovered, the issue is she has been ignored far too long!

[@traceymcnamara6223]

Yes, yes, yes. If COVID-19 doesn't make the powers that be wake up, I don't know what will!

[@meweaz3]

Real hero

[@mihajlo961x]

So... based on the current events of the COVID-19 crisis two years later, my guess is that the canaries died and we didn't learn anything?

[@thediligentdog7749]

people certainly listened blatantly there weren't enough people in charge who gave a shite to put it in to action, we are the Canaries.

[@therealjuanschmidt]

I think the evidence is in, no we didn't!

[@billyzwilliams]

And they say bureaucracy is important for having an order. No, it isn't!!!

[@randipowers]

Animal lover, Vet and FBI secret service. OK why not I say. Amazing talk!

[@traceymcnamara6223]

Thank you Randi!

[@shystrshystr]

As Tracey says, we need to petition, we need to actually take the time to educate ourselves on things being passed in our governments. These last 16 months are just the tip of the iceberg if we do not do more!

[@mariannemortimer7724]

Yes! We really do!

[@traceymcnamara6223]

The One Health Act was just released. Tell your representatives to vote for it. Very important legislation!

[@mariannemortimer7724]

@@traceymcnamara6223 I emailing them now!

[@traceymcnamara6223]

@@mariannemortimer7724 Dear Marianne - Yes, yes, yes! Make your voice heard. Taxpayers need to start asking questions of our elected offcials!

[@kingjeremysircornwell7847]

hypoxia, is a symptom of carbon monoxide poisoning.

[@chanoy._v8758]

Now we supposedly have a pandemic from a damn bat 🦇 🤦🏾‍♀️

[@BlackCatSociety]

You are like “ Mad Dog Mattis”

[@therealjuanschmidt]

WHO needs her in Wuhan! It's like this talk was meant for this pandemic right now!

[@parksungwoo4730]

and in the white house!

[@traceymcnamara6223]

Thank you!

[@traceymcnamara6223]

Thank you for watching my talk. If only people had listened...

[@parksungwoo4730]

@@traceymcnamara6223 and too many still arent!!!

[@whattheglasses9904]

is this robert mcnamaras daughter because they know weapons of mass destruction

[@dennisadancarreon140]

ABURRIDO

[@jhojanflorez5834]

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[@santiagogamer733portela6]

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