Originally Posted by
KelvinHelmholtz
That’s exactly what the point of my post was. Asking the other poster if he thinks they are the same because they obviously are not.
I’m very aware that influenza and COVID are totally different viruses that coronaviruses mutate much slower making vaccine development easier. The reason previous coronaviruses did not have a vaccine developed was because these viruses either disappeared like SARS or were so mild (like the coronaviruses that cause many colds) that vaccine development had no financial incentive.
As for COVID in livestock, Mink farms are the only source of large outbreaks I am familiar with.
Sorry, quoted the wrong post but I'll fix that.
Minks are fine, so are most other wild animals and livestock, which can be maintained at arms length from humans and can be culled if needed (as opposed to sleeping in their huts with them). What you don't want is a large livestock reservoir pool which cannot be mostly isolated from people. That would probably be animals which are inextricably embedded in society in developing parts of the world.