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Jeremy Bray
Jeremy Bray
2 years ago

Should not the UK government step in to save the hamsters? A jumbo jet should be able to accommodate all the hamster refugees from this hamstercide. Hamster Lives Matter.

Andrea X
Andrea X
2 years ago

But how many of the rules we have to live through were unthinkable until they became… thinkable and subsequently a reality?

Last edited 2 years ago by Andrea X
Gunner Myrtle
Gunner Myrtle
2 years ago
Reply to  Andrea X

This could easily happen in Canada.

Josh Woods
Josh Woods
2 years ago
Reply to  Gunner Myrtle

They did this to shelter dogs in Australia during the Delta outbreak, and of course another infamous incident here in the UK 21 years ago during the foot-and-mouth disease that was initiated by Null Ferguson- Wait, the name really rings a bell here! Also remind what that quote by Mark Twain was?

Last edited 2 years ago by Josh Woods
Jonathan Ellman
Jonathan Ellman
2 years ago

Not allowing the spread of nature’s vaccine, the omicron variant, is a crime against humanity.

James B
James B
2 years ago

Beyond any words. In my opinion, the inability to admit that the policy was a mistake from the beginning is the main problem. Admission of failure = failure at the Ballot Box. Except in jolly old China, of course.

Christopher Barclay
Christopher Barclay
2 years ago

Looks like we have come full circle. The wet markets in Wuhan were blamed to hide the obvious explanation for the virus: that it had escaped from the Institute of Virology in the city.

Josh Woods
Josh Woods
2 years ago

This hamstercide eerily reminds me of a certain nefarious policy initiated by Null Ferguson(misspelling intentional) during the foot-and-mouth disease saga, and I bet most of my fellow UnHerd readers know which one I’m implying. And also the culling of shelter dogs in Australia during the Delta outbreak. And remind me again what THAT quote by Einstein was?

Last edited 1 year ago by Josh Woods
Alka Hughes-Hallett
Alka Hughes-Hallett
2 years ago

I think – Hamsters are the lucky ones. In more ways than one. I cannot contemplate the conditions and treatment of pets in HK. Cooped up in small flats, in heat and cold . I used to live there & once saw a bunny in the car park of my building. Clearly the owner had too much and let it loose . No one came to claim it, the guard kept it but who knows if it ended up in his pot.