• sylver_dragon@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Viruses had only been discovered a few decades before this picture was taken. It’s very likely that the family (and most of society) had no understanding that the virus was unlikely to jump species and so took the same precaution to keep the cat from spreading the disease that they themselves took. I’d rather people made this sort of mistake than the willful idiots we had this time around refusing to believe in viruses at all.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, I understand why everyone sees a mask, but I don’t think it is one either. You can see too much detail on the nose, I wouldn’t expect to see that much unless it was a very sheer fabric used for the mask.

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          1 year ago

          Ah you’re right. Make more sense, I was thinking how the FUCK did they get a mask on that cat??