Dangers Of Having An Animal Reservoir - SARS-Cov2
I believe Geronimo, the alpaca, had enough media coverage to educate the general public on the fact that some infectious diseases have LAWS and REGULATIONS on how they are detected and managed.
Let’s leave Geronimo to rest in peace and analyse what he is teaching us about COVID-19, and ourselves.
How are those two related, you ask?
To quote another article;
The big threat no one is talking about? Covid spillback | WIRED UK
LEARNING FROM PAST EVENTS – ARE WE?
In case of a confirmed SARS-Cov-2 outbreak in animals;
‘If infection in animals is suspected or confirmed’…
…‘SARS-CoV-2 outbreak investigations should include collection of data on animal movement, movement of people and equipment on the farm, feed origin, management and feed sampling, and on the presence of wild or stray animals at the farm level. The decision to cull will depend on the national or regional capacity to contain the outbreak and to manage risks using less drastic measures, while managing welfare aspects. The national approach to the industry will also weigh on the decision to cull, as is the example of the progressive disappearance of mink farming for fur in the Netherlands. If a decision to cull animals is made, the OIE Terrestrial Code Chapter 7.6. on Killing of animals for disease control purposes should be observed.’
WHO DESERVES TO LIVE ? – THE ONE’S WE LOVE VS. THE ONES WE CALL FOOD / VERMIN
Geronimo has crystalised that even in the most developed countries in the world we look at different species differently.
Some may argue this is species specific legislation that is put in place, because of the affinity of the micro-organism toward reproducing in some animal species more than others.
I challenge this and say that the regulation should apply to production animals, and not pets.
Not those who we can regularly screen, isolate and will never enter the food chain.
Not those who’s owners we can also screen, vaccinate and educate on how to dispose of the animal’s bedding and waste.
How is Geronimo’s death really going to protect his owner?
Is that really an acceptable solution? Kill until no more left to be infected?
In that case, let’s go 100 years back and create little ‘leprosy’ communities for people infected with notifiable diseases, because it then also starts making sense.
And while we are at it, lets divide the vaccinated from non-vaccinated too. To protect them from each other.
Let’s kill all the bats because of rabies, and the fact that they are ‘ugly’, incinerate the pigeons, swans and sea gulls because they are susceptible to avian flu…and let’s not stop there…
Over 20 million mink were culled because of COVID-19. 20 million.
Did this not start with 1 pen sneezing, perhaps losing appetite, having some discharge or something?
Did it really have to be left to spread to so many animals before anyone did anything, and then what we did was KILL THEM?
I smell insurance money coming with the smoke of the burning flesh of the animals we already stripped from any freedom and kept in captivity.
Want to know the COVID-19 incident report in animals?
Here;
COVID-19 - OIE - World Organisation for Animal Health
Want to know the results of studies done on predicting the spill-back events of COVID-19 back into an animal reservoir?
Here;
Predicting the zoonotic capacity of mammal species for SARS-CoV-2 (biorxiv.org)
Want to know what legislation we have in place for cases of COVID-19 in animals?
None.
Yet.
Oh, and by the way, those of you who are not vaccinated against COVID-19 out of choice – you will be speeding up this disaster bus which is heading towards a cliff. You ain’t driving it, and you ain’t fuelling it, but you certainly make it go faster.
And when the bus reaches the cliff end, if we had no time to put legislation in place, our solution will be, our history teaches us, to kill. Pardon, cull.