I read with great intensity many blogs from people in Australia on the topic of the EI outbreak and the subsequent virtual shut down of the horse industry. I was apalled to read accounts from normal people like me who could not obtain a vaccination for their horses because they were not in the racing industry or otherwise in the favored sectors.It is just like everything else in this world it seems, money buys you everything whether it does you any good or not. The DPI was deciding the fate of people's horses there. They were changing the rules as they went. The people in the racing industry were having their horses get the flu shots and they were WITHIN the red zones, which meant their horses would certainly come down with the flu whether they got the shot or not.
The flu shots do not prevent EI, but they lessen the severity and make recovery easier. The vaccine has a two week period to be effective and they were giving it to horses that would surely get it because they were at ground zero just because the owners had the money and the say so.
The poor people in the border areas whose horses COULD be protected from getting the flu weren't getting any shots. They were all allocated first to the richer horses. There was no vet clinic available to them for their sick horses. Mant people were forced to keep their horses in the location they were when the lockdown happened, meaning they could not even care for their horses at home, or move them away from border areas that weren't infected yet.
It all made absolutely no sense, but perfect sense if you look at how money controls everything else in our world right now. My heart goes out to all who suffered through this horrible ordeal.
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