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Would you kill your pet if ordered to by the gov't?

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JackiePlace · 02/03/2023 12:31

I read in the news this morning that at the beginning of the Covid crisis the gov't considered ordering the culling of all domestic cats in order to prevent the spread of Covid. This idea was later abandoned after it was proven that cats couldn't transmit Covid to humans.
AIBU to think that this would have caused a mass uprising? We are a nation of animal lovers, after all. Or would people have accepted it as they did some of the other draconian regulations (not visiting dying relatives, etc).

www.lbc.co.uk/news/govt-cat-cull-covid-pandemic/

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PinkSparklyPussyCat · 05/03/2023 10:46

If the hospital said it I'd believe it but if the government or any of their dodgy scientists said water was wet if have it check. Remember Neil Ferguson and his dodgy modelling? Independent Sage wanting near permanent lockdown? The government and their advisors made it very difficult for anyone to believe a word they say.

Anyway, regardless of who said it or what the illness was I would still choose to keep my cat indoors rather than kill him though.

MooseBreath · 05/03/2023 11:10

We didn't have a pet at the time, but I wouldn't have supported a cull at all. Surely they could just be kept indoors? I followed the rules for the most part, but used common sense as well.

Puzzledandpissedoff · 05/03/2023 12:52

Even the sceptics were in full praise of people like Whitty

True enough, but then plenty also bore in mind where Whitty's funding was coming from
That's not to say he was deliberately acting in bad faith, but it's perhaps naive to ignore the effect such things can have

Puzzledandpissedoff · 05/03/2023 12:55

Remember Neil Ferguson and his dodgy modelling?

Only too well Hmm and he's another doing rather well on government (ie: our) money, whose narrative suited them just fine at the time

TheOriginalEmu · 05/03/2023 14:55

Everanewbie · 04/03/2023 22:08

I’ve had it twice. Mild cold both times. Everyone I know has had it, including my 90 year old grandma who is in a nursing home. Cold.

Lots of evidence coming out that even if it was a mild cold for you (which for many many people it wasn’t, I know a previously healthy pregnant woman who has been left I a vegetative state by it, thankfully her premature baby survived) you are at increased risk of heart attack and stroke after covid, particularly if you have it multiple times. So no. Not just a cold.

Cherrysherbet · 05/03/2023 14:57

They’d have to find me first. I’d be hiding somewhere safe with my fur babies.

Astrak · 05/03/2023 15:07

H*l would freeze over first.
Cat and I live off grid. We'd slip and go first.

AnneElliott · 05/03/2023 15:26

No not a chance. I didn't know about the WW2 advice here but on a visit to Jersey their museum of occupation had a whole section about how islanders hot their animals down before the evacuation. It still haunts me now thinking about that.

I had 4 cats during covid (now sadly 3 as 1 passed to cancer) but no way would I have ended their lives. I would have kept them inside if that was the advice but would never have allowed them to be put down. They come just after my son in order of importance - they are like additional children.

Alexandra2001 · 05/03/2023 16:26

Puzzledandpissedoff · 05/03/2023 12:52

Even the sceptics were in full praise of people like Whitty

True enough, but then plenty also bore in mind where Whitty's funding was coming from
That's not to say he was deliberately acting in bad faith, but it's perhaps naive to ignore the effect such things can have

For me, at the time, it wasn't his funding, it was that he was a political appointee... so of course he was never going to criticise Govt policy.

BUT there is a problem with all of this... ALL countries locked down, some very severely, even those that didn't, ended up locking down more... so they were either all in cahoots with each other OR there was some sort of psychological thing going on.. a mass hysteria if you like... thats actually extremely scary, if you think about it.

Meaning we'd have all killed our first born if the Govt had told us too, once it had begun.

Puzzledandpissedoff · 05/03/2023 17:23

They were either all in cahoots with each other OR there was some sort of psychological thing going on.. a mass hysteria if you like... thats actually extremely scary, if you think about it

Though no psychologist my money's on the second option; we only have to look at that Milgrams experiment someone linked, which I'd never heard of but frankly find terrifying

JanusTheFirst · 05/03/2023 19:19

The ignorance of some on the thread is quite alarming. "Just a cold." Of course it isn't. One would have to be very stupid to think that, given the evidence. For some it is mild and others it kills.

Pretending otherwise because it suits you is ridiculous.

JazbayGrapes · 05/03/2023 20:16

The ignorance of some on the thread is quite alarming. "Just a cold." Of course it isn't. One would have to be very stupid to think that, given the evidence. For some it is mild and others it kills.

Colds kill big time.

JazbayGrapes · 05/03/2023 20:21

I see this news story as classical shit stirring. A splash of negative emotions, and it may be a far away from truth as possible.

But if push came to shove... people would execute their own children, let alone pets. And so many people are very callous towards animals already.

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