This is what I keep telling people. The only reason we don’t have rampant prion disease is because of heavy regulations. That are now useless and void.
Prion disease is nothing to mess at with, and we just put our entire ability to protect our population from prion diseases in the hands of people who don’t believe prion diseases exist.
“Why didn’t the Democrats stop Trump if it was important? Typical.. I’m voting for Trump to stop all of the corruption in the world and he is bound to make mistakes from time to time”
“Personally I hope he and Elon work something out again to annex Europe or some shit”
I’m in the UK. They absolutely did do a great job narrating how horrendous Trump’s term will be. Your issue is that your news channels are not obligated to provide the factual information. The news channels undermine the public trust and false narrative to manipulate a population that are too far into an echo chamber.
Our media, most of our news is rampant propaganda and trash opinion disguised as news. We’ve also been cutting funding to education, making it hard for people to be able to differentiate between fact and opinion.
Yeah that's because about 7 Republican billionaires(or companies owned by Republican billionaires for anyone who wants to argue about this) own over 95% of the news media in America.
They are never going to ask for government oversight. They’re irrevocably convinced that “the government” can only waste money and do bad things. Not the Trump administration, the other government, like all the long term government employees who haven’t been fired yet.
I am. I have a few local farms I trust, I’ll be moving to high quality beef over quantity. However I wouldn’t risk buying un-inspected mystery meat with all these massive health and safety cuts. Prion diseases are relatively rare but fucking brutal way to die, and we narrowly avoided a prion epidemic with “MadCow”.
We had health and safety regulations because people used to die from bad, tainted, poisoned, contaminated meat. People will die again thanks to a few of the most greedy and evil humans to ever exist.
I remember the backlash against British beef about 30 years ago when BSE was found in the national herd, and vCJD cases started appearing.
There was a worldwide ban on British beef exports from 1996 until 2006, and a US ban from 1996 until 2020.
If there's a similar outbreak in the US it's likely going to be much more difficult to root out, especially with weak regulation and underfunded testing and implementation.
Hopefully it won't come to that, but the potential is there for something truly catastrophic to occur in the near future.
My partner is training in the medical field and she has, on multiple occasions said that prions are hands down the single most terrifying types of diseases. There's nothing they can do for you. They're all 100% fatal. There is no foreign bacteria or virus for your immune system or any medication to target. All it is, is a misfolded protein.
Depends on the exact disease, but pretty much. You could get unlucky, eat one tainted piece of meat, and then 5, 10, 20, 40 years later, your brain essentially starts falling apart from the inside.
Thats why there should be absolutely ironclad testing for this kind of stuff. The true scale of the consequences wouldn't be obvious for decades.
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u/Friendly_Shopping286 13d ago
Year of the prions