Chinese police execute corgi with crowbar for zero Covid

Try to kill a dog with a bludgeon and you will either fail to do it or wake up with nightmares for the next few months. Maybe both.

Even the bullet takes some knowledge. A stupid cop in a small town near here once emptied his service revolver on a cow that was "menacing" the high school and had to call a farmer to finish the job with a shotgun. That's one situation where you get better results capturing the animal with a bucket of grain and a rope.

>"The killing of a corgi shows how government power has grown unchecked in China in the name of Covid prevention"

Editorialized on HN into:

>"Chinese police execute corgi with crowbar for zero Covid"

It's not Chinese police, they're covid prevention workers employed by local gov who has authority to put down privately owned animals due to public safety. Which is standard not overreach. The drama here is the animal wasnt' tested before being inhumanely euthenized. Of course would be better if pets can be brought to quarantine like Shanghai or at least have trained vets on staff to euthenize. Overall it's a pretty minor administrative mess up.

> The so-called debate around 'animal rights' is merely a camouflage -- the issue at heart here has always been the wanton infringement of individual (rights) by the endlessly expanding state power," a comment on Chinese social media site Douban said.

Western MSM picking juicy quotes from ignorant netizens to show somehow Chinese statepower is expanding by... being in alignment with western statepower. Not to mention killing personal pets is so low on priority of "state power", a dogwhistle fo centrlized power / CCP, that such duties are typically delegated to lower levels like municiple govs around the world.

Makes me feel something new has been added to the propaganda punchbowl. It's now permissible to talk about COVID in domestic and wild animals, then? there was the Feb 2020 HK dog case, and this the other day:

First Covid-19 case in pet dog confirmed by vet https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59246304