Why mink? Any of you out there on FR with science degrees who can shed light on this?
I get that mink are kept in small cages right next to each other and have miserable, stressful lives.
But so too do meat rabbits.
At least with rabbits, they provide food for people.
The one good thing that could come out of the dread virus 'rona would be to put an end to mink coats, imho.
Anyway, getting back to rabbits, if I didn't know any better, I would wonder if the virus were engineered to mutate inside an animal that decadent westerners like to make a coat out of and not infect rabbits, which, I may be wrong, are probably eaten in China.
To: CheshireTheCat
Does Fauci have the Patent on this mutant strain of Covid as well?
(Is something rotten in Denmark?)
2 posted on
11/05/2020 2:32:26 PM PST by
Jan_Sobieski
(Sanctification)
To: CheshireTheCat
A big percentage of the uptick in Europe is coming from new mutations of the virus. Not sure if they mean it is coming from minks to humans, rather than just the people in the mink farming business spreading the mutation. Possibly on the furs - there was some talk about household pets not spreading it by saliva, but from their coats. E.g. People pet your dog, they put the virus on the dog, then spread the virus to others who touch the dog.
3 posted on
11/05/2020 2:33:24 PM PST by
monkeyshine
(live and let live is dead)
To: CheshireTheCat
If it’s already mutated, the vaccine is pointless.
4 posted on
11/05/2020 2:33:26 PM PST by
KobraKai
To: CheshireTheCat
5 posted on
11/05/2020 2:34:52 PM PST by
Seruzawa
(TANSTAAFL!)
To: CheshireTheCat
Sure it is
Just like the source was the wet animal market
6 posted on
11/05/2020 2:35:50 PM PST by
A_Former_Democrat
( TAG PedoJoe w/ DEFUND the POLICE OPEN BORDERS CORRUPTION DUNKIN/7-11)
To: CheshireTheCat
Mutant COVID-19 strain in Denmarks mink could cause new pandemic: scientistI'm soooooo confused. I thought Sleepy Joe Basement-Biden said he knows exactly how to quickly eradicate Covid-19 based apparently on all the super-advanced genetic research that Sleepy Joe's been secretly conducting in his Biden-Basement Research Lab for the past six months (during the 2020 Presidential Campaign).
Given that Sleepy Joe already has the solution to quickly eradicate Covid-19, why doesn't Sleepy Joe quickly fly over to Denmark and also quickly eradicate the mutant Covid-19 strain in Denmark's mink population? (I just don't get it.)
7 posted on
11/05/2020 2:36:19 PM PST by
gw-ington
To: CheshireTheCat
Is the mink a relative of the Panglion? Remember they were thinking that creature harbored the virus?
8 posted on
11/05/2020 2:37:49 PM PST by
abigkahuna
(How can you be at two places at once when you are nowhere at all?)
To: CheshireTheCat
Why mink? If I may guess? Mink are related to ferrets, and ferrets are one of the animals that can catch the common cold, which is a corona virus.
Perhaps the same immune system that isn't so immune to the common cold is also susceptible to COVID?
13 posted on
11/05/2020 3:48:54 PM PST by
null and void
(A republic ... if you can keep it.)
To: CheshireTheCat
Mink had a disease around the early 1900’s that was called “Aleutian Mink Disease” that was devastating and would kill within hours after contracting the disease. Because of the number of virions that were produced during the viremia a mutation occurred and the disease jumped into cats around the 1920’s which we know today as Feline Panleukopenia. This disease was devastating to cats for fifty years until the virus mutation jumped from cats to dogs at a Collie Dog Show in Mobile, Alabama. This disease is what we know as canine parvovirus. I fully expect Parvo to mutate into humans as we are far past the historical time where the virus jumps species. There is a virus currently circulating in rabbits that is reducing their numbers significantly. Mink and other animals can manifest a disease and as the disease replicates a mutation capable of infecting a human is produced. This is life which the Wuhan Virus is demonstrating to us as we live.
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