No, your pet won’t give you COVID-19 [post-edited after the 6o clock, heh]
Some dud on hinterland-tv just claimed 'a women passed corona to her cat' ....
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RTFA : https://week.com/2020/03/25/no-your-pet-wont-give-you-covid-19/
RTFA : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feline_coronavirus
there have been two dogs in china and now one cat
IN FUCKING HELLGIUM OFCOURSE and the tabloids are already on it
allow me to make this clear : first one to even look funny at my cat for being a retard yokel from salems lot can get a fucking bullet
you can haul me off to jail after that
edit : the plot thickens ...
the cat in question has already healed, it was 9 weeks ago but is 6o clock news today ... something's off ... there's ZERO info and the way that "viral-expert" sounds is af if human corona can infect cats without mutating which, to me, sounds pretty incredulous all and all .. there were traces in the cat's excrement but they dont say how or what ... at least they confirm that your pets can't confer it to you ...
maybe that's the whole idea to keep the peasants down its very ... incomplete and it's pretty unconvincing. I havent seen telly news in quite some time i forgot ... those people also always have that smiley face , like you know, even if they announce 'today is the end of the world' it comes with pepso-dent ...
uncanny, somewhat creepy ...
the politicians ? they have even less clue, they just try to be as vague as possible and keep the quarantine and lockdown in chunks of 14 days (which is about the incubation period) ...
what i mean by half-assed is : if its in the air for hours and you a 'distancing order' (stay away from other people for at least 1.5meters) which is legally enforcible or you can be fined then all stoors need to deliver at their door and service clients one by one , but supermarkets let 30-40 people in at once ... "room enough" but the thing is everywhere, right ?
so it's not airborne, but it stays in the air ? hmm..
so it lingers on surfaces like metal for up to 3 days ... so that sixpack is a potential carrier
and, ... businesses are 'requested' to impose tele-work / commuting (requested) but 'if its impossible to keep the distancing order then there's nothing to do about it CUZZzz work) ... lol ?
is not popular im sure but its half-assed
whats the point in a distancing order if you leave exceptions.
I spoke to someone who LIVES in china ... doesnt live on tv , has no name here and is like a total complete absolute citizen there ... they STILL have to wear masks outside (here in belgium there's barely enough masks for hospital personnel , right) ... they were OBLIGED to leave the house only once every two days MAX and then only one person at once ... its been since december, the cases has stopped increasing recently but all the measures are still in place
here they're gonna evaluate in two weeks from now (they did today after the first two weeks)
so its just smoke to keep everyone quiet heh
two weeks incubation plus maybe a couple of days before it REALLY shows ... that means two weeks from it's like evaluation of wave 2 ... the people infected after wave one was discovered ...
they wont force companies to close even if they constitute a public health hazard
i'd almost welcome our chinese overlords for a month or two to do it right, but im not sure they would leave again ... (its a very unfriendly place towards anything in charge ... the biggest mafia is the government , its a police state with the biggest average of cops per square metre in europe but ...
i have never seen the 'ministers look so helpless on tv lol .. well its not even lol ... it means its bloody serious
no one knows what to do or dont , they dont drive measures through (out of fear of impopularity ?) and business be business : why care about public health if there's money to be made ...
so wave two ... that could be me, i have been outside last week still, been in contact with at least 1 person shaking hands and spoke to several in less than 1.5 metres distance
i will know by sunday , heh ...
i'm glad that cat recovered ... and even with the half-information im glad they at least confirmed pets wont infect you
yea, brah, you dont know with people , yo ...
mass slaughter ...
ITS HALF ASSED THATS WHAT IT IS ... cops ride per 2 , those two guys from bo-frost yesterday were with two-in-a-van ...
i know i KNOW "it's work" ... so it's half-assed ... quarantine and lockdown is all or nothing you know
the person from china i spoke to said they had to leave names and places, write it down
so if an infection started again they could quickly trace everyone who had been there and where they came from
that's NOT half-assed
i know ... in any other situation i would be omg authoritarian but
you wanna take this seriously, right ?
i hear the states is catching up FAST ... Italy has 10.000 deaths and it hasnt even run around the country, its mostly north
Spain closes in on 5000 DEATHS ... (sars1 had 800 deaths in EIGHT MONTHS) ... sars2 is counting since december
you are NOT taking this seriously
but, please
we wouldnt want you to
not weirken or something
... theres more like, that one minister dude waved off like "oh cleaning personnel can work, the house-owner just moves to another room"
so how long does it stay in air ? yes indeed
half-assed
but you know, stuff like that doesn't make you popular
gotta think about quarterlies ... (i havent heard about quittance for the quarter and i doubt they will ...) gotta think about elections (they're in the middle of gov't formation, the current one has a 6 month emergency mandate) its very much possible afterwards the governments 'fall' and there's a re-election
gotta think about that rep ...
all in all
it makes the HIVE-drama a bit ...
'self-important' as a euphemism then ...
im really glad that cat recovered
but i would REALLY like ten minutes of that viral expert time ... if he really knows what hes talking about i wouldnt need more than 10 minutes to ask my shit ...
its REALLY unclear