• grayman@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Why is this down voted?

    It’s literally happened before. Recently australia killed all animals at shelters due to covid. China killed all pets in cities during covid. There are other examples before covid.

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      1 year ago

      Because it’s stupid. The infection isn’t dangerous to humans, it’s anywhere from symptomless to cold-like symptoms. It’s not super contagious to humans, and even if it were it’s not dangerous.

      And the disease exists elsewhere in the world without causing big issues. It’s not a new disease, just new to the UK.

      • ANGRY_MAPLE@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        Nah, it’s because the comment went from 1 to 100 really fast.

        This disease isn’t known to be airborne.

        This disease isn’t known to be untreatable. (Antibiotics FTW.)

        This disease isn’t known to cause death.

        This disease hasn’t lead to countless animals suffering in facilities underequipped to handle them. (Many people bought puppies to “help with loneliness” during covid, only to abandon them later, after they were all grown up.)

        This disease hasn’t shut down multiple cities or countries.

        This disease doesn’t threaten the food chain.

        This disease hasn’t lead governments to mandate the general public to wear PPE.

        This disease hasn’t helped overwhelm hospitals.

        Could you please explain why you think this will be the same as what happened in those places during covid? The scenarios are very different in multiple ways.

      • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        It’s an extremely unplausible scenario as it’s nothing like Covid and more like a flu except it basically can’t spread between humans.

        And now you’re trying to play off criticism of your take as some kind of nationalist defensiveness lol