[RightGeek]

I'd rather shoot my stupid neighbors.

[rktman]

No doubt the animal rights folks are headed there right now to protest. Right? No? Not the seashepard crew even?

[Secret Agent Man]

I’d advise ‘dealing with’ politicians and anyone coming to kill your pets first. Especially if they are indoor pets only.

[lepton]

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.

[janetjanet998]

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..

[Wayne07]

This might be the thing that finally turns liberals against China.

[The_Media_never_lie]

The order from the authorities did not specify how to get rid of the pets, nor which sauce to use.

[PGR88]

Don’t eat my pet bat!

[wildcard_redneck]

That is the dumbest idea I’ve heard in a while. After they kill all of the dogs and cats their country is going to become infested with rats and other vermin that the dogs and cats preyed upon and kept down. This is stupid beyond belief.

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/

[Redwood71]

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

[DoughtyOne]

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.

[Rurudyne]

Gee, I wonder if they’re ready for a plague of rodents if they got rid of cats?

[EinNYC]

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.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Never pass up an opportunity to use a crisis to implement all your totalitarian wet dreams.

[PIF]

Being China, its what’s-for-diner time again

[Jane Long]

Pet ping!

[JoeFromSidney]

I'm glad the dog I had when I was in Thailand has long since passed on to doggie heaven. Best dog I ever had. Very affectionate and a very good watch-dog.

[familyop]

Someday, after a disaster, many will be consumed by their pets.

[null and void]

Did the Chinese engineer this virus to be transmissible through our pets, hmmmmm?

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

[samtheman]

Any proven cases of spreading to or from pets?

I haven’t read of that, at all.