How would wild deer, who should have limited contact with humans (as they are wild animals) even get this virus. Are we looking at a new deer centric narrative here where this virus is not from China but North American deer?
Deer socially distance in the wild from each other and people. Even if 1 deer got it, how would that deer spread it to others.
Even if they have COVID (which I highly doubt they do), why do we care? This virus is not that sever in people so why would it be worse in deer?
Either their test samples are getting contaminated or they have a shockingly high false positive rate. Or both. And this is Canada so they only believe in the PCR test which does have a high false positive rate especially when you ramp up its cycles.
Maybe there is money to be made in vaccinating the deer.
There are plenty of corona viruses to go around, not just in bats and people. I'm afraid that when it sinks in that there is a huge animal reservoir out there, it will be used for more fear mongering and retaliation on animals. We need to point out right now that we've always been surrounded by it and yet we lived, just as animals are, and we need to continue living with it, concentrating on treatment instead of prevention.
This raises a few obvious questions:
Why are they testing deer in the 1st place.
How would wild deer, who should have limited contact with humans (as they are wild animals) even get this virus. Are we looking at a new deer centric narrative here where this virus is not from China but North American deer?
Deer socially distance in the wild from each other and people. Even if 1 deer got it, how would that deer spread it to others.
Even if they have COVID (which I highly doubt they do), why do we care? This virus is not that sever in people so why would it be worse in deer?
Either their test samples are getting contaminated or they have a shockingly high false positive rate. Or both. And this is Canada so they only believe in the PCR test which does have a high false positive rate especially when you ramp up its cycles.
Maybe there is money to be made in vaccinating the deer.
There are plenty of corona viruses to go around, not just in bats and people. I'm afraid that when it sinks in that there is a huge animal reservoir out there, it will be used for more fear mongering and retaliation on animals. We need to point out right now that we've always been surrounded by it and yet we lived, just as animals are, and we need to continue living with it, concentrating on treatment instead of prevention.