Don't Panic

Yep with global travel there is every likelihood it will reach our shores. Let's hope the goverment and NHS have a plan....

 

Oh my I hope that is not the case, but time will tell...

 

I don’t pretend to know but.......
My late father was a Min of Ag vet surgeon and epidemiologist. He would have told you the Mad Cow thing might just be a product of people in research laboratories chasing grants and the Media.
ALL mammals suffer from ‘spongiform encephalopathies’ - the most susceptible - that daily licks hundreds of thousands of human faces - is the domestic cat. He worked the Cumbrian Fells in War time (dig for victory!) where sheep with scrapie lambed on cattle grazed pastures and no transmission ever happened between species nosing one another’s birth sacs.
Sheep with scrapie get cerebral irritation and rub their horns to a polish. Shepherds would spot the signs...... and promptly send them to slaughter before they were staggering where they entered the human food chain..... (we never worried!) All the stuff about prions has been demonstrated in labs, not fields. His final thought was about incidence I.e. how BSE cropped up. It does not look like a communicable disease like flu so much as an environmental or genetic problem. It occurs in clusters. Did you know BSE is/was overwhelmingly a disease of the dairy herd not beef cattle? Much more common in the Friesian (& cross breeds) than Herefords or Angus......and virtually all Friesian cattle have ancestry in a handful of bulls imported in the 1950s.
Notice the Creuzfeld Jakob epidemic never happened? Just the normal tragic incidence. So Dad didn’t ‘know’ either but the story peddled doesn’t totally add up either. Just like the rubbish coming out of China.......

 

That's the way it will ne handled here in the USA. The Big wheels will spare no expense, with taxpayer's dollars, to look after No. 1, while leaving the rest of us to fend for ourselves! Ah, my government at work.

 

A vaccine won't be long.
https://www.theguardian.com/science...outbreak-help-in-race-for-coronavirus-vaccine

 

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I'm good for when the zombie apocalypse happens.

 

Big pharma in this case!!

 

I don’t think the majority of us will need it. Just the old and young mostly.
Reasonably healthy people are surviving it.

 

So that includes most on this forum then......

 

Nurse @Duckadiledundee needs some more meds....

 

Is this really as dangerous as is being made out or is it a load of old bollocks just like the millennium bug?

 

I worked for a large UK Bank and was heavily involved in the year 2K testing programme. All of the Banks systems were tested by the end of 1998 and1999 was used as preparation for the change over on the 31st December. As @b_badger says the IT industry made sure it would be a non event.

 

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

 

Tomorrow is another day to worry about that shit, today is about tomorrow and the next phase for this great country of ours.....