Reservoir Deer

Protecting our fuzzy family members is, hopefully, something that we have all been trying to do since the start of the pandemic. We know that cats can become infected, so my attempts at protecting our family against this virus has included trying to protect them as well. The point of the NPR piece, though, is that it is likely that the virus is likely to continue lurking within the deer population even after we reach the end of this particular chapter with it. With it still being there, it could cross over to the human population again and spark new outbreaks.

@wilsongoddard I think we need to protect them at all causes. For the reason that there are no available covid vaccines for domestic animals at present.

@Shavkat I am hoping that vaccination for domestic animals becomes available. So far, vaccinating non-human animals has been limited to settings such as zoos.

@DaddyEvil Unfortunately, they take others with them. Some of us live in apartment buildings where it is impossible to keep ourselves completely isolated from carriers of disease.

@wilsongoddard I've never lived in an apartment. I've always had a house, whether rented or one I owned. Our last house was actually a duplex, but we didn't even see the people in the other half unless they needed something from us or we needed something from them. (I think we took over some meat we bought too much of for our freezer twice in three years and, otherwise, just waved to them if we saw them outside. We didn't even know their names.) We had a lot of neighbors while we lived there. We were renting that place for over 22 years. Sometimes, they moved in and out so fast we only realized we'd had neighbors when we noticed new ones moving in.

@wilsongoddard Either our species will live through it, or it won't. Possibly we'll just lose those too ignorant to follow basic protocols in protecting against it.