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"only 5%" is one in twenty. Right now the UK is getting something like 30,000 new cases a day. This adds up to a lot, last time I checked the UK was only behi

by stuaxo 5y ago

"only 5%" is one in twenty. Right now the UK is getting something like 30,000 new cases a day. This adds up to a lot, last time I checked the UK was only behind India on total cases. For whatever reason the people running the UKs actions are doing the opposite of protecting people.

noduerme 5y ago
You know, I wondered for a long time about why "mad cow disease" didn't slowly manifest in a much larger percentage of the British population. But I think it did... they're just calling it Alzheimer's.
- nicoburns 5y ago
  Mad cow disease is a prion disease, and as such it’s relatively easy to control it’s spread. You would mainly catch it from someone by eating them, which isn’t something we tend to do.
  - noduerme 5y ago
    The prion was essentially ubiquitous in the UK's meat supply in the mid-1980s, when it was common practice to grind up the spinal and brain tissue of downed cattle into meal for other cattle. Estimates for how many ingested the prion were in the millions. But very few humans seemed to get vCJD. Instead they either got Alzheimer's or their brains melted and they joined the antivax movement.
- Pokepokalypse 5y ago
  mad cow disease has a VERY distinct marker. (it's hard to get to; but it happens in a post-mortem examination of the brain tissue). If most Alzheimer's was mad cow, I guarantee you; we'd know it. (also, symptoms are different). (also, there's really two distinct markers: the physical voids that are formed in brain tissue, which is macroscopic; you can see it with the naked eye, and the very characteristic misfolded proteins, which requires a very powerful microscope to detect).
tremon 5y ago
last time I checked the UK was only behind India on total cases That's easy to verify: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries Currently, India is behind the USA (#1) on total cases, UK ranks 4th, Brazil 3rd. If we look at cases/population size, UK ranks #22, but the only large country in the top 20 is the USA. To be fair, the UK government has been fairly consistent that their target has always been to protect the NHS, not the people. As long as the hospitals aren't running beyond capacity, the UK is meeting their stated goal.

by stuaxo 5y ago

noduerme 5y ago

You know, I wondered for a long time about why "mad cow disease" didn't slowly manifest in a much larger percentage of the British population. But I think it did... they're just calling it Alzheimer's.

nicoburns 5y ago
Mad cow disease is a prion disease, and as such it’s relatively easy to control it’s spread. You would mainly catch it from someone by eating them, which isn’t something we tend to do.
- noduerme 5y ago
  The prion was essentially ubiquitous in the UK's meat supply in the mid-1980s, when it was common practice to grind up the spinal and brain tissue of downed cattle into meal for other cattle. Estimates for how many ingested the prion were in the millions. But very few humans seemed to get vCJD. Instead they either got Alzheimer's or their brains melted and they joined the antivax movement.
Pokepokalypse 5y ago
mad cow disease has a VERY distinct marker. (it's hard to get to; but it happens in a post-mortem examination of the brain tissue). If most Alzheimer's was mad cow, I guarantee you; we'd know it. (also, symptoms are different). (also, there's really two distinct markers: the physical voids that are formed in brain tissue, which is macroscopic; you can see it with the naked eye, and the very characteristic misfolded proteins, which requires a very powerful microscope to detect).

tremon 5y ago

last time I checked the UK was only behind India on total cases That's easy to verify: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries Currently, India is behind the USA (#1) on total cases, UK ranks 4th, Brazil 3rd. If we look at cases/population size, UK ranks #22, but the only large country in the top 20 is the USA. To be fair, the UK government has been fairly consistent that their target has always been to protect the NHS, not the people. As long as the hospitals aren't running beyond capacity, the UK is meeting their stated goal.