Posted on 01/31/2020 9:47:56 AM PST by RightGeek
Communities around China have ordered their residents to stop keeping pets - or risk getting them culled - amid fears that animals could also catch the new coronavirus that has killed 213 in less than three weeks, MailOnline can reveal.
Residential committees, village officials and companies from various provinces and municipalities issued the strict order to locals after receiving instructions from their superiors to tackle the epidemic, it has emerged.
One village in Hebei urged all households to 'deal with' their pets within five days, otherwise officials would 'handle' them altogether; while another residential committee in Shaanxi instructed people to 'consider the overall situation' and dispose of their cats and dogs immediately, according to notices supplied to MailOnline.
The news came as China's top expert for infectious diseases warned that pets would also need to be quarantined should they be exposed to coronavirus patients, causing fears that animals could also catch the disease.
The World Health Organization, however, claims that it has not seen any evidence of the virus being passed onto cats or dogs. >p> In Wuhan, the ground zero of the coronavirus outbreak, one neighbourhood banned its residents from letting their cats, dogs and livestock leave their homes. In a flyer posted in the community, local officials threatened to catch, kill and bury the animals on the spot if they see any.
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No doubt the animal rights folks are headed there right now to protest. Right? No? Not the seashepard crew even?
I’d advise ‘dealing with’ politicians and anyone coming to kill your pets first. Especially if they are indoor pets only.
Uh oh, now we’re going to begin training apes.....
requiring the animals not be allowed to wander or intermingle as vectors seems reasonable - and is what appears to actually be described.
It may also be that the Government is saying that if people broadly ignore the order to keep pets isolated that they will respond by culling. That is harsh.
WHO is behind in the ball...
it’s all over the eco system then
and today they said those “cured” can still catch it..
me thinks something isn’t right..
This might be the thing that finally turns liberals against China.
The order from the authorities did not specify how to get rid of the pets, nor which sauce to use.
Don’t eat my pet bat!
History just repeats itself. https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/09/26/1958-mao-zedong-ordered-sparrows-killed-ate-much-grain-caused-one-worst-environmental-disasters-history/
It’s the same story. Find a scapegoat, and hammer it into a believable story. If they were going to be correct, humans can pass it just the same as pets. And aren’t pets normally animals? I think there’s a connection there.
rwood
The question is, if anyone decides to ask it, are pets dropping dead?
If not, this is nonsense.
Keep the pets indoors until this is over.
Good grief.
Gee, I wonder if they’re ready for a plague of rodents if they got rid of cats?
What an absolute moron. Ugh!
This is the punishment for the abject cruelty the Chinese show to animals. I really believe that. It is a dreadful thing that other people are catching the disease but I have a distinct lack of any empathy for people who hack living animals apart or boil them alive, who are killing species after species of endangered animals for their voodoo “folk medicines” or their home brewed version of Viagra, and who will eat any swill, prepared on even the filthy floor. Too bad it can’t be contained just in China. I certainly hope that innocent pets will not be killed due to some idiot uninformed officials going full panic mode.
Never pass up an opportunity to use a crisis to implement all your totalitarian wet dreams.
Being China, its what’s-for-diner time again
Pet ping!
Infectious Disease - Wuhan - (airborne viral pneumonia)
Pets as possible carriers (?)
From the news source cited for the article :
"China's top expert suggested that pets might also be infected by the new virus
But WHO claims it has not seen evidence that cats and dogs can get the disease
Death toll of the life-threatening disease has soared to at least 213 in China "
Information and knowledge of this virus is increasing daily, so also is misinformation.
My suggestion is to await confirmation from an approved, knowledgeable source,
but since there is much information we still don't know,
best to keep pets indoors and away from possible infection.
Prevention seems more logical and prudent, rather than a knee-jerk emotional reaction.
Stay alert for new information.
I agree with you.
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