Immediately I can see this was written by the comms director for the UC Davis ag/vet sciences department. UC Davis has one of the largest and most aggressive research programs oriented towards industrial livestock.
Please 
and think about the basic logic behind this claim and who benefits from making it a story.
Wait do you have a link? Sorry I’m lazy googlewise but you’re saying they aren’t buddhist trots anymore?
Every satirical universe like this explicitly needs to end with a pan out through the fourth wall, showing some gammon fuck roleplaying his fantasy with his pants around his ankles.
there are no goodies
I always liked the Tau but I never got further than painting some figures and playing one or two skirmishes with a friend. Do the Tau suck in some way?
I’m frankly not that surprised. The city and especially the surrounding areas in LI have always had some of the most conservative and fascist populations in the country. There’s something uniquely dangerous about the thin blue line Italian American crowd.
Gotta say though I’m not sure if this covers surgical masks but more ski masks, which are also not uncommon to see.