@mtomczak Yeah, well, if that idea got more than 5 seconds consideration they were beyond nuts. They would have brought down the country. I mean that. Seriously.
@lauren It's interesting to me to contrast the modern attitude with the London Plague of 1665, where upon rumor spreading that dogs and cats carried the disease, the Lord Mayor ordered them destroyed.
(... of course, many many things were different then, and I have no doubt a populace that had been caretaking their dying relatives in their own homes might take a more callous attitude regarding the tradeoff in life between cats and dogs and their brothers and sisters).
@mtomczak Well, there was no social media in 1665. Frankly, if the streets were filling with zombies now people would still revolt.