Rescue dogs shot dead by NSW council due to Covid-19 restrictions

> Bourke Shire Council, in the state’s north-west, killed the dogs to prevent volunteers at a Cobar-based animal shelter from travelling to pick up the animals last week, according to council’s watchdog, the Office of Local Government.

ooo career ending move there.

I'm amused, myself, how little coverage the zoonotic transmission of COVID gets. It's not even "misinformation", its just not discussed much.

Perhaps they're saving it for a serious conflict later. "They're coming to kill Fluffy" might get people to take up arms.

>Bourke Shire Council, in the state’s north-west, killed the dogs to prevent volunteers at a Cobar-based animal shelter from travelling to pick up the animals last week,

>A source who is familiar with the arrangement said the shelter volunteers are distressed and had COVID-safe measures in place to handle the dogs, one of which was a new mother.

>According to NSW Health, there have been no recent locally acquired COVID-19 cases in Cobar,

So, it was too dangerous to travel in an area with no covid cases and bring dogs to a shelter with full covid protocols and the only alternative was to shoot the dogs?

This is just getting excessive, there's being safe and then there's I don't even know what you call that. There definitely had to be a better way to deal with that situation.

>The Office of Local Government Minister Shelley Hancock, who has previously faced questions in Parliament over the shooting of animals in council pounds,

Although, sounds like the council has had issues with shooting animals in pounds before.

Australia exhibits a very high level of paranoia with extreme measures to prevent covid transmissions. You cannot even travel to some provinces without a 2 week quarantine and multiple required tests (e.g. Western Australia). All of these reactions to relatively low existence of covid transmission. How long does this go on till people realize that Covid is going to be part of our lives for the foreseeable future and locking oneself up in isolation and executing innocent animals is not a long-term solution.

“The Office of Local Government Minister Shelley Hancock, who has previously faced questions in Parliament over the shooting of animals in council pounds, did not comment.”

The same method reliably prevents COVID transmission in humans.

Remember: Violent extremist nutjobs are in governments everywhere, at all levels, not just here in the US, not just at Federal and State level. This story proves that they're in every government, at every level of government, spewing their fear, uncertainty, and doubt, doing whatever it takes to further victimize people being harmed by the absolutely botched handling of the pandemic.

This story is just an unusually depressing example among already depressing examples.

What the fuck..