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Apparently in the early days of the pandemic there was a theory that COVID could be passed on by cats . Their solution Exterminate Exterminate ! 😳😳😳😳
the UK government?
What is your source of this info? Seems odd this is the first i have head about it?
But yeah, if it is true, thats pretty shitty.
Cat Death Squads?!
A comment from a minister on channel 4 news.
report here
It doesnt seem to have been anything more than a very high level what if.
Invasive species, seems fair
Did they deploy the robotic birds to wreak revenge for their living, breathing predecessors?
Now we know it is tories that were responsible for the unfettered spread of covid, can the extermination plans be repurposed to exterminate them?
Maybe train viscous dogs to attack cats, then make tories dress like cats.
Yet another cat-astrophe by the useless tories!!!
Maybe train viscous dogs to attack cats
They're too slow.
👏👏👏
Maybe teh cats might have staff willing to fight back... Cat aids, perhaps.
Now we know it is tories that were responsible for the unfettered spread of covid
Globally the most effective vector for the virus seems to have been 'right wing populism'
It did seem clear at the start that the virus jumped very easily back and forth between cats and humans - with in a week or so of the virus arriving in the states one of the first victims was a tiger in a New York zoo. I'm going to guess tigers in zoos are absolute champions at social distancing.
"In fact, there was an idea at one moment that we might have to ask the public to exterminate all the cats in Britain."
I suspect that "one moment" in this case probably represents a couple of seconds when someone at a meeting happened to mention that it was possible for cats to catch Covid, and then someone asked the question "so what do we do, cull all the cats in the UK?"
I think the comment "we shouldn’t forget is how little we understood about this disease" is an exaggeration. It was known that covid was a coronavirus and therefore likely to be spread by coughing, touch, and close human contact, nowhere in the world did they believe that covid might be spread by cats coughing.
I know nothing about James Bethell but I reckon Rishi Sunak needs him to tell the public that the Tories wanted to kill kittens like he needs a hole in the head.
ErnieLynch
I suspect that “one moment” in this case probably represents a couple of seconds when someone at a meeting happened to mention that it was possible for cats to catch Covid, and then someone asked the question “so what do we do, cull all the cats in the UK?”
Except the other "moments" like "we might not make (my self imposed not scientifically/clinically advised) target of 100k / d tests" if we test care homes.
I know nothing about James Bethell but I reckon Rishi Sunak needs him to tell the public that the Tories wanted to kill kittens like he needs a hole in the head.
Unless killing kittens is viewed less bad than killing relatives in care homes.
Maybe train viscous dogs to attack cats
They’re too slow.
But it might have got us out of a sticky situation..........
Invasive species, poison them like Australia does with their 1080.
I suspect there might be a small outcry and it would be unpopular with voters!
We should have gone for furred immewnity.
Most wars are started by people who assume they are easy to win, then they find they don't know how to end them.
Maybe train viscous dogs to attack cats, then make tories dress like cats.
No such thing as viscous dogs, it's bad owners who are the really thick ones.
Love how that guy holds his hands up and the cat says "NO MERCY!"
Seems like they were objecting to his trousers, and looking at them I'd say he got off lightly.
You wait ages for a cat hating thread these days, then two come along at once....🙄
Invasive species
As are homo sapiens.
Who are more invasive, cause more damage, and spread more diseases.
And I think the 1080 is to kill possums
Sounds like a keeping the fur low scheme to me
IGMC
As are homo sapiens.
Who are more invasive, cause more damage, and spread more diseases.
Could do with fewer of them too, this thread’s about cats though
The viscous dogs would already have been liquidated, shirley?
That would have had my backing.
Nuke them from space it's the only way.
And I think the 1080 is to kill possums
<span style="font-size: 0.8rem;">I think it’s used to kill a lot more. Animals native to AU have a natural resistance to it. Invasive and domestic animals like dogs and cats don’t. Hence widespread use in AU and NZ to control invasive pests like rabbits.</span>
https://pestsmart.org.au/domestic-animal-safety/the-facts-of-1080-baiting/
the UK government?
What is your source of this info? Seems odd this is the first i have head about it?
But yeah, if it is true, thats pretty shitty.
Cat Death Squads?!
The only think that surprises me about that is that the UK government actually had a plan for anything before it happened! Seems entirely logical to me that they should have been having "what if" discussions. Indeed, if they'd done that (well they did, if they had acted on it) we'd have been much better prepared for a pandemic!
I know nothing about James Bethell but I reckon Rishi Sunak needs him to tell the public that the Tories wanted to kill kittens like he needs a hole in the head.
I don't think he's Rishi's best pal. He used to have a high profile job for an unelected inherited Lord, who's prior expertise was running night clubs, under the Boris/Hancock regime. I can tell you that he was so concerned about Covid that he was prepared to video call with industry to try and find solutions into the evenings whilst eating his dinner. But not so concerned to forego the red wine during the important solution finding calls!
Cats , seems the government had a solution
The felinal solution? Would Labour have backed it?
I'd be getting rid of bad dog owners, that will be about half gone (excluding on here).