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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 7957983" data-attributes="member: 177"><p>Do you have tigers in your home? If not, they pose no significant risk to you. Tigers are not, in fact, big housecats, so whether they can get covid-19 does not speak to what happens in domesticated cats.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yes, of course, a profession that I just told you has multiple calls a week to disseminate information to its practitioners isn't checking. </p><p></p><p>In general, you don't start doing large-scale testing in a population if the symptoms of the disease are not seen in the population, or until the epidemiology suggests that animals are a vector, especially when the materials for that testing are in short supply and you need them for other populations that are, in fact, dying.</p><p></p><p>Veterinarians are not seeing a rise in covid-19 symptoms in animals, despite their being in close proximity to humans. See previous note about a lack of uptick in insurance claims about respiratory symptoms. Epidemiologists are still tracing paths of infection in humans, and none of them have had an animal in the chain.</p><p></p><p>Do remember that you cannot, in a practical sense, prove a negative. There is, so far, no evidence supporting companion animals getting the disease in any numbers worth discussing. As I said - 1.2 million people. Two cats.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>No, they're just dying in general. And in a thread on the disease that is killing them, and apt to kill hundreds of thousands of people, you want to focus on a thing of only academic interest at this point. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>If this were actually true, you'd be allowed to shout, "Fire!" (or, today, "Gun!" or, "Active shooter!") in a crowded theater. People are influenced by what other people say. A responsible member of a large society has to own that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 7957983, member: 177"] Do you have tigers in your home? If not, they pose no significant risk to you. Tigers are not, in fact, big housecats, so whether they can get covid-19 does not speak to what happens in domesticated cats. Yes, of course, a profession that I just told you has multiple calls a week to disseminate information to its practitioners isn't checking. In general, you don't start doing large-scale testing in a population if the symptoms of the disease are not seen in the population, or until the epidemiology suggests that animals are a vector, especially when the materials for that testing are in short supply and you need them for other populations that are, in fact, dying. Veterinarians are not seeing a rise in covid-19 symptoms in animals, despite their being in close proximity to humans. See previous note about a lack of uptick in insurance claims about respiratory symptoms. Epidemiologists are still tracing paths of infection in humans, and none of them have had an animal in the chain. Do remember that you cannot, in a practical sense, prove a negative. There is, so far, no evidence supporting companion animals getting the disease in any numbers worth discussing. As I said - 1.2 million people. Two cats. No, they're just dying in general. And in a thread on the disease that is killing them, and apt to kill hundreds of thousands of people, you want to focus on a thing of only academic interest at this point. If this were actually true, you'd be allowed to shout, "Fire!" (or, today, "Gun!" or, "Active shooter!") in a crowded theater. People are influenced by what other people say. A responsible member of a large society has to own that. [/QUOTE]
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