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Mutated Coronavirus from Minks is a threat to Humans
- jackmodern 6y agofrom the article: "Health authorities found virus strains in humans and in mink which showed decreased sensitivity against antibodies, potentially lowering the efficacy of future vaccines, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said at a press conference." “The mutated virus in mink may pose a risk to the effectiveness of a future vaccine,” Frederiksen said, adding that it “risks being spread from Denmark to other countries.” Poor minks.
- vanderZwan 6y ago> Poor minks. They lived in cages and were destined to be turned into fur coats. I'm not disagreeing, just pointing out that their situation was already messed up to begin with.
- ornornor 6y agoSad but true. They’re probably better off dead at that point. How is animal farming still a thing for the “advanced” race we are is quite a paradox.
- cute_boi 6y agoI dont know why you are being downvoted but yes minks are caged just so celebrity/rich people can show off their shiny fur based cloths. And later they blame minks is a threat lol. Human spread-ed them virus, tortured for whole life, killed them mercillesly and now minks are thread? Common just wear faux based clothing and problem solved.
- hombre_fatal 6y agoAt least a fur coat lasts longer than the 10 minutes of pleasure that eating meat gives you.
- tharne 6y agoMeat provides a lot of nutrition.
- hombre_fatal 6y agoSo does other food. A fur coat provides a lot of warmth. So does other clothing. Let's not go down the motte-and-bailey rabbit hole of suggesting our vices are simply utilitarian.
- romanoderoma 6y agoAt what cost? Fast fashion and cheap and disposable clothes is many times worse than an animal coat that can easily last 80 years. Reuse is an important part of sustainability.
- ornornor 6y agoIt’s not either/or. If we wanted, we could make durable cloth clothing. No need to farm and kill animals for that. Ask your grandparents how long did their clothing last when they were young compared to the junk we get now. It’s not like we don’t know how to weave durable textiles, we just choose not to.
- notreallytrue 6y ago> If we wanted Who's we though? I want, you want, everybody say they want them, but then fashion industry makes billions. And not for the lack of durable clothing My real leather shoes are 20 years old My sneaker are less than a year old and already not good enough to walk The problem is I can't wear leather shoes all the time and even if I buy expensive clothing,they are not durable enough to be on par with the ones my grandfather (he was a tailor) made 50-60 years ago. The offer is simply not there (except luxury goods, which are usually made with old school materials, that's why they cost so much) and the bulk of the demand is simply made of cheap and affordable sh*t. On the other hand my girlfriends owns a fur that belonged to here grand-grandmother, it's 60 years old, it still looks brand new. 1 human of the past = 1 fur for life 1 modern human = at least 2 or 3 jackets every season. You want durable stuff and not pollute the environment with dangerous chemicals? The old way it's still the best. > No need to farm and kill animals for that The pollution already kills a lot lot more of them than the fur industry. Simply owning a cat is already a threat to ecosystem that compared to it the number of minks killed for their fur is an insignificant number.
- tasty_freeze 6y agoMy mother and father were born in 1930. Being from that era, my mother always wanted a mink coat because it would mean she had "made it", but it wasn't until they were about 60 and all the kids were grown and out of college that my dad bought one for her birthday. She wore it once and was so self-conscious that people would think her callous that it stayed in the closet until she died 20 years later.
- ornornor 6y ago> She wore it once and was so self-conscious that people would think her callous that it stayed in the closet Good.
- sam_goody 6y agoWell, that problem is solved, but there are new ones. Once no one needs minks for coats, they just wipe them out as nuisances, making them endangered or extinct. As it is, I believe the mink has been eradicated from many parts of the world. Now, we may not need mink. But at least making coats from them mean they will be around.
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- foogazi 6y ago> But at least making coats from them mean they will be around. Being around means nothing to the individual minks being caged and slaughtered
- jfk13 6y ago"Being around" as a farmed animal may bear little relation to being around as a free, wild creature. Given a few generations, we tend to turn the animals we farm into a parody of the original creature. How well would the average battery chicken survive if it were set free?
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- rapnie 6y ago> How well would the average battery chicken survive if it were set free? This was tested in a Dutch TV program some years ago ("Keuringsdienst van waarde") where they got some newborn battery chickens and placed them on a regular farm, amongst healthy free-roaming chickens. They got the same food, but still 'exploded' in size until they couldn't walk. Their feathers look awful. On the whole they looked sick and miserable. Just like battery chickens, actually
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- kossTKR 6y agoA much better/newer article in English here (Can we change to this link and title from a non-tabloid newspaper?): https://www.berlingske.dk/nyheder/english-version-mink-causes-new-covid-mutation-in-humans-is-denmark-the https://www.berlingske.dk/nyheder/english-version-mink-cause... "Mink causes new covid-mutation in humans – is Denmark the new Wuhan" : "The virus mutation has so far been found to have spread to 12 individuals who have been found to have an impaired reaction to antibodies, which could mean that any future vaccine will not have the intended effect." We are currently killing 17 million Mink to stop the spread, and starting "serious lockdown measures" in the local areas affected. But if 12 people already have this new version - it's probably all over the place already.
- r721 6y agoReuters story: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-denmark-mink/denmark-to-cull-entire-herd-of-mink-due-to-risk-of-coronavirus-mutation-tv2-idUSKBN27K1X6 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-denmar...
- airstrike 6y agoSo if I'm understanding this correctly, it sounds like we gave the minks COVID-19, the virus mutated and then the minks gave it back to the Danes. Yikes. I wonder what challenges we'll unlock on chapter 12 of Apocalypse 2020.
- qz2 6y agoIt has to be rage infected monkeys next.
- ashtonkem 6y agoI’m expecting more of a locust type situation next.
- jfk13 6y agoThose already happened. https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/06/14/876002404/locusts-are-a-plague-of-biblical-scope-in-2020-why-and-what-are-they-exactly https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/06/14/8760024...
- cblconfederate 6y ago2020 never ceases to amaze
- airstrike 6y agoI got a head start in January by watching an apartment 5 floors below mine completely melt on fire at 2am on a cold Winter night... Luckily nobody died. It was one of those things you never think will happen to you / near you, but then it does. My parents had a fire in their building a couple months after that.
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- jkinudsjknds 6y agoAfter drawing the coronavirus card twice in a row, humanity began to wonder if God had shuffled the discard pile.
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- merricksb 6y agoDifferent article posted slightly earlier and more active discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24990724 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24990724