[drdexebtjl]

Citation needed.

We ought to have learned after the Covid “herd immunity” policies that killed hundreds of thousands around the world, that infectious disease control should be grounded on actual research, and not on simplified world models.

Researchers currently recommend treatment.

[AdamN]

They recommend treatment because the mandate is to keep the animals alive, not whether or not it's good long term for humans. Many doctors and vets though are against the mass use of antibiotics in industrial farming (literally as a prophylactic so they get the antibiotics just in case) but it's not having much of an impact it seems.

[drdexebtjl]

> the mandate is to keep the animals alive

By whom?

> mass use of antibiotics in industrial farming

This is a completely different issue. No one's doing mass prophylactic treatment against this fungus, and even if we treated every single cat in the world, there are 60 times more chickens. Industrial farming is on a completely different scale.

> doctors and vets

Unless they're citing research supporting their opinion, it's as irrelevant as any other non-specialist.

[CalRobert]

I think they meant to cull them

[drdexebtjl]

I understand, didn’t mean to imply they were suggesting herd immunity. But then you’ll have people not taking their cats to the vet because they don’t want them to be culled, increasing exposure and limiting our access to reliable data.

My point is, take this uninformed opinion that goes against the researchers’ recommendation for what it is: wrong.