The Detail: Denmark's Covid-19 mink mutation raises wider concerns around intensified agriculture, farming
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A couple of weeks ago, Denmark decided to kill all its mink.
All 17 million of them.
The mink had tested positive for a mutated form of Covid-19 after catching the disease from humans.
What other critters catch COVID19?
It seems to me that, if critters can catch and spread COVID19, then the idea that we can control the disease by controlling human contact is unfounded.
I had thought about this problem at the beginning of the pandemic.
If critters can catch COVID19; then our response to the disease should have started by closing all nature parks to people. The nature parks still would have gotten the disease, but just a little slower.
PS: I feel sad for the mink.