Worrying Covid Development

[aelmpvw]

this development is very worrying, where's it all going to end?
https://www.farminguk.com/news/coronavirus-denmark-orders-mink-farms-to-cull-entire-herd_56916.html

[Peter Pedant]

yeah I noticed that
( covid goes into animal stock and mutates and comes out again sufficiently different)

all the minki in Dansk are going to DDDDIIIIIEEEE!

but that does not stop it happening again

can your pog-dog kill you ? all ask
(c thx to Kai Lung and Ernest Bramah)

[iluvmargie]

How disgusting, mink farms in this day and age. Fur only looks good on the animal it is meant for. Poor beggars, they have a rotten life anyway, at least they won't suffer any more now, but their deaths won't be good. RIP poor innocent creatures.

[aelmpvw]

it's the nightmare scenario of covid mutating to all animals that frightens me

[Peter Pedant]

there have always been animal models ael

you can give plague to lab rats - you just dont use fleas. so it wasnt much different to old times

and - - if you read the 1340 accounts ( the ones that dont say the rats came out of the sewers and died and no one knows why ( they omitted to say that))
They DO say the pigs and swineherds
yeah herds of swine and swineherds
WERE affected
( gots spots rolled over and died)

[tamborine]

covid wont affect their skins thats all theyre bred for. Badgers spread pneumonia but culls are illegal in UK

[woofgang]

tambo they are being destroyed and incinerated. I know someone in Denmark. Public opinion has wanted the industry to end for a long time.

[ladybirder]

I agree totally with ILM. Trouble is there is a market for them and no prizes for guessing where.

[Peter Pedant]

// Badgers spread pneumonia but culls are illegal in UK//

specifically TB - badgers and guinea pigs dont mount a fibrosis response to TB so it runs riot frooa colony

but there is all the blah blah about whether it is bovis or not and whether bovis is important now
( it was in the fifties)

[retrocop]

Looks like our druggie dogs and exploding dogs will be collecting their cards and joining the unemployment queues if they catch covid and lose their sense of smell. :-(

[Peter Pedant]

// yeah I noticed that
( covid goes into animal stock and mutates and comes out again sufficiently different) //

did anyone notice the poor Beeb hack stumbling over these long words this am? Sat 9 am
and then asking - have I got that right Miss?

and Miss - (the doctor of the morning) said - yes

Hack - foo - oh!

seems terribly hard for the marxist tree huggers at the been for some reason

[Old_Geezer]

Hardly a development. We already believe viruses can cross between species, and cov is likely to have reached us via bats.

[Peter Pedant]

// Hardly a development.//

govt scientists reacting like scalded cats - shows there is a animal reservoir ( not that rare ) but the emergence of a mutated strain means that it can be with us for - ( hundreds of years)

200 human infections so they should be able to say what the natural history is

[rowanwitch]

Animals kept in intensive farming conditions, mink are highly aggressive so prone to raised stress hormones in captivity which would lower their immunity, then if a virus entered that population it would remain within that population long enough to adapt to it. Once changed it would still have enough similarities to the original form to reinfect it's human hosts.

We don't need mink, they should only be where they are part of a natural ecosystem.
It seems that an anachronistic human desire for real fur has the potential to exact a price from us.
Humans 0. Nature 2