Ancient Wisdom on Disease Prevention

[Eric B]

There be some, who thinke it a great preservative against the pestilent Aire to keepe a Goat in their houses, because the capacitie of the Houses filled with the strong sent which the Goat sends forth, prohibits the entrance of the venemous Aire… All publike and great meetings and assemblyes must be shunned.

A Treatise of the Plague

DW saw this on FB. I've got a number of stinky billy goats available if anyone in the DMV is looking for one. Not sure if they've finished testing the efficacy of this as a preventative measure, but I'm already shunning "publike and great meetings and assemblyes"....

 

[DaveNV]

Thanks, but I won't be needing to borrow a goat. I have two small dogs who are tremendous scent magnets. Clean or not, even if freshly bathed, these guys are little stinkers.

Dave

 

[Eric B]

... well, I'll put my barn cat that fell into a compost bin full of wet hog poo up against your little stinkers any day. Wading in to save him two weeks ago really kickstarted my social distancing!