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Mutated Coronavirus from Minks is a threat to Humans

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Re: Mutated Coronavirus from Minks is a threat to Humans

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Post by tasty_freeze »

cute_boi wrote: post #7
jackmodern wrote: post #2

from 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 countrie…

I 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.

My 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.

Re: Mutated Coronavirus from Minks is a threat to Humans

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Post by sam_goody »

cute_boi wrote: post #7
jackmodern wrote: post #2

from 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 countrie…

I 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.

Well, 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.

Re: Mutated Coronavirus from Minks is a threat to Humans

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Post by [deleted] »

sam_goody wrote: post #12
cute_boi wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I 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.

Well, 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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Re: Mutated Coronavirus from Minks is a threat to Humans

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Post by ashtonkem »

airstrike wrote: post #6

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.

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.

Re: Mutated Coronavirus from Minks is a threat to Humans

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Post by ashtonkem »

qz2 wrote: post #8
airstrike wrote: post #6

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.

It has to be rage infected monkeys next.

I’m expecting more of a locust type situation next.

Re: Mutated Coronavirus from Minks is a threat to Humans

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Post by hombre_fatal »

tharne wrote: post #10
hombre_fatal wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At least a fur coat lasts longer than the 10 minutes of pleasure that eating meat gives you.

Meat provides a lot of nutrition.

So 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.

Re: Mutated Coronavirus from Minks is a threat to Humans

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Post by romanoderoma »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #9
cute_boi wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I 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.

At least a fur coat lasts longer than the 10 minutes of pleasure that eating meat gives you.

At least it provides pleasure

Don't get me wrong, I love vegetables, but meat it's not worse, abuse is.

Like the abuse of avocadoes

Re: Mutated Coronavirus from Minks is a threat to Humans

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Post by romanoderoma »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #17
tharne wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Meat provides a lot of nutrition.

So 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.

At 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.

Re: Mutated Coronavirus from Minks is a threat to Humans

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Post by foogazi »

sam_goody wrote: post #12
cute_boi wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I 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.

Well, 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.

> But at least making coats from them mean they will be around.

Being around means nothing to the individual minks being caged and slaughtered

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