BOISE, IDAHO (Enviro Snowflake Brief)— Idaho Governor, Brad Little, announced today the state has confirmed their worst fears… Idaho’s menacing gray wolf population “may” carry and spread the Wuhan coronavirus to Idahoans.
The Governor said at his unscheduled press briefing, “I want to thank the Idaho Farm Bureau for funding the Wolf Coronavirus Study, and a special thanks to our ground team, which was led by my close personal friend, Washington state Rep. Matt Shea, who also is the proud leader of the antigovernment Patriot Movement.”
“Matt enlisted a team of qualified Idaho ‘citizen scientists’ for the Study to confirm our suspicions about wolves and coronavirus,” the Governor added.
Rep. Shea, who is under investigation in Washington state for domestic terrorist plots says, “I was pleased that Idaho Republican leadership knew I was a man of their ilk, who they could count on when it comes to federally planted wolves.”
“My team of Idaho ‘citizen scientists’ was made up of ranchers, trappers, hunters, and passionate white nationalists because we know they are experts on gray wolves,” added a proud Matt Shea.
Gov. Little said the underlying scientific data Rep. Shea compiled and analyzed to prove Idaho wolves “may” carry and spread coronavirus to humans will not be shared with the public, but the state did provide oversight to the study.
Gov. Little explained, “My administration felt it was important to form an oversight board to review the Idaho Wolf Coronavirus Study. It was chaired by state Senator and rancher, Bert Brackett, who recently introduced creating ‘wolf free zones’ in most of the state by allowing almost year-round hunting and trapping, which of course tells you Bert really knows a lot about wolves.”
Marissa Morrison, Gov. Little’s press secretary, added, “Idahoans need to be aware that wolves in the state “may” carry coronavirus, but please know the Governor is taking aggressive action to end the threat.”
Gov. Little’s planned pitch to his friends in the White House (bypassing the CDC) is to ask to declare the gray wolf presence in Idaho a health emergency threat to the public, and therefore, extirpation of wolves is the regrettable, but the responsible action to approve.
According to ESB sources in the state Capital, Idaho Fish & Game has had pressure from the legislature for years to develop an extirpation plan for wolves, but to keep it “on the downlow.”
