Posted on 11/18/2020 7:52:37 AM PST by SJackson
DOG-OWNERS are 78 per cent more likely to catch the coronavirus, experts claim.
They say pet owners should take hygiene seriously when they're out with their pooches.
Scientists in Spain looked at different daily activities and rated them according to risk of catching Sars-Cov-2.
They claim supermarket home deliveries are more risky than visiting a shop in person.
The researchers surveyed 2,086 people in Spain and around 41 per cent of the participants were aged between 40 and 54 years old.
The study, published in the journal Environmental Research, by the University of Granada and the Andalusian School of Public Health in Spain found that 4.7 per cent of the group had caught the virus at some point - this equated to 98 people.
The participants were quizzed on what activities they had undertaken.
The team stated that living with a dog and taking it for walks upped the risk by 78 per cent.
The experts stated that this could be due to the fact that when out walking, dogs may touch surfaces that are contaminated and then pass it on to their owners.
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might be because people love to pet dogs- even strangers when they see a dog will walk up- talk to owner, pet it- maybe that is why?
you’re lucky if all he does is sniff the poo- had an old english once, she ate it- eyuck!
IOW, the long and short of it is, everything they have been telling us to do actually puts us MORE at risk for catching the virus than not.
You’d almost think it was intentional.........
I follow the same hygiene guidelines as my dog. If something smells vaguely like it is edible and has been on the ground for less than a year, it gets gobbled up. Maybe I puke it out later when on the bed or couch or the carpet.
I consider anything delivered to my home as contaminated. When it is brought inside, it is segregated for a day if it can wait and disinfected if it cannot, then hands and handles washed.
If one is concerned about infection, then this is what should be done. Most people, including those worried, can’t be bothered to put their masks on correctly and quit touching everything, including their eyes and under their masks.
why on earth would home delivered groceries increase your risk to getting covid by 94%
I have 2 dogs. Does that mean I’m 156% more likely to get the China vrus?
Oh, here we go with the dogs, too. What next, goldfish? This is why their creeping authoritarianism can never fully take root: they trip themselves up in their zeal for administering clinical cruelty.
Scientists from Spain, scientists from Spain!
Could it be more Plain
Boatloads of Bull scat coming your Way
Ole!
Perhaps the dog provides enough low-level exposure to simply immunize the owner without harming or killing the owner. If it’s 78%, then my entire family and I should have the antibodies by now.
Scientists from Spain, scientists from Spain!
Could it be more Plain?
Boatloads of Bull scat coming your Way
Ole!
>>Say son, what kind of damn dog is that???
>>Well mister, before I cut off his tail and painted him yellow he was an alligator...
Awesome.
they can take their ‘study’ and put ti where the sun don’t shine. This dog owner walks said dog daily (she insists) and neither of us have caught the Chinese flu therefrom. I am 71 (nearing 72) and refuse to live in fear of a virus that is about as deadly at the seasonal flu. Life is too much fun to be hiding indoors. Live free of libs and their dictatorial edicts.
Just food for thought. A lot of senior citizens died without seeing their family for months. Do you think they’d rather died of covid 3 months earlier while spending every day with their family, or dying 3 months later naturally after six months of living in isolation?
Just for information, this is basically what happened to my 86 year old father. To hell with all these covid alarmists
Personally, I would much rather spend time with family and friends. These draconian isolation measures are anti-human.
Of course they are. The dogs aren’t wearing their masks. /s
So the virus is coming from contrails???
This study and others brought to you by Spanish taxpayers and MAD. (Muslims against Dogs)
sounds like something an muhammadian would make up
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