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So 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 won

So 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 ago
It has to be rage infected monkeys next.
- ashtonkem 6y ago
  I’m expecting more of a locust type situation next.
  - jfk13 6y ago
    Those 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 ago
      2020 never ceases to amaze
      - airstrike 6y ago
        I 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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    - airstrike 6y ago
      The mosquitoes are new, though https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53856776 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53856776
- skrause 6y ago
  They have been a thing for four years already.
ashtonkem 6y ago
It’s suspected that something similar like this happened to create the 1918 Flu Pandemic, except the theory is that it was a human (and maybe a chicken too) giving the flu to a pig where it mutated into something much more virulent than normal.
- mr-ron 6y ago
  The other theory was migratory birds, since it appeared in a pig-farm populated place with a lot of bird migrations during the migration time of year.
  - gremlinsinc 6y ago
    So, we can rule out african swallows as the cause....
ornornor 6y ago
Well, what good can possibly come from packing as many animals as possible in as miserable living conditions as possible while there is a virus going around? Minks apparently have a very similar upper respiratory system as ours, so what could possibly go wrong? Chinese people eating wild cute animals were being finger pointed at the beginning of this pandemic but that’s really not much better. It’s not like it’s a surprise either, ask anyone researching viruses and they’ll tell you one of the worst case scenario is a virus that migrates back and forth between humans and animals as it’ll mutate into very interesting strains in the process. But we must have our fur coats, our 1$ burgers, and our meat every day.

qz2 6y ago

It has to be rage infected monkeys next.

ashtonkem 6y ago
I’m expecting more of a locust type situation next.
- jfk13 6y ago
  Those 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 ago
    2020 never ceases to amaze
    - airstrike 6y ago
      I 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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  - airstrike 6y ago
    The mosquitoes are new, though https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53856776 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53856776
skrause 6y ago
They have been a thing for four years already.

ashtonkem 6y ago

It’s suspected that something similar like this happened to create the 1918 Flu Pandemic, except the theory is that it was a human (and maybe a chicken too) giving the flu to a pig where it mutated into something much more virulent than normal.

mr-ron 6y ago
The other theory was migratory birds, since it appeared in a pig-farm populated place with a lot of bird migrations during the migration time of year.
- gremlinsinc 6y ago
  So, we can rule out african swallows as the cause....

ornornor 6y ago

Well, what good can possibly come from packing as many animals as possible in as miserable living conditions as possible while there is a virus going around? Minks apparently have a very similar upper respiratory system as ours, so what could possibly go wrong? Chinese people eating wild cute animals were being finger pointed at the beginning of this pandemic but that’s really not much better. It’s not like it’s a surprise either, ask anyone researching viruses and they’ll tell you one of the worst case scenario is a virus that migrates back and forth between humans and animals as it’ll mutate into very interesting strains in the process. But we must have our fur coats, our 1$ burgers, and our meat every day.