[conspire] "immunity" (COVID-19, ...) Re: Numbers racket

[paulz at ieee.org]

 Mad cow disease is weird in a couple of ways.  Many organic molecules twist themselves into a particular geometry.  
In many cases, it is possible for the exact same molecule to be folded in a different shape.  Then it behaves differently.
Mad cow disease can happen spontaneously.  Some molecule somehow gets itself twisted in the wrong way.  Then it touches other molecules and some of them twist around.During the mad cow problems of the late 1990's ranchers had a hard time understanding that their cattle which had never been off the ranch could still be suspect.
Bacteria in food can be killed by exposure cooking.  Not so mad cow molecules.
The wife of a friend started having memory problems.  It was diagnosed as Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease.  She was dead in less than a year.

Creutzfeldt–Jakob

    On Sunday, May 3, 2020, 8:22:57 PM PDT, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:  
 
 Quoting Alex Kleider (akleider at sonic.net):

> I have a vague memory of at one time learning that mad cow disease
> is a slow virus affecting the central nervous system and that a
> human needs to eat infected bovine central nervous system to
> contract the disease.

Actually 'mad cow disease' (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) is the
action of certain _prions_, which are probably the only pathogen class
weirder than viruses, in large part because while viruses are arguably
not alive in the first place, prions pretty _definitely_ aren't (by any
reasonable definition):  They're misshaped protein molecules that, in
animals, cause fatal neurodegenerative diseases.

When those _same_ misshapen molecules screw up human nervous systems,
that's called Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease.  It's thoroughly horrible; you
want to be very far from it.  There are neither treatments nor cures,
and, once symptoms start appearing, sometimes after an incubation period
of 5-20 years, the patient unravels neurologically, leading to brain
death.

Cheery thought, eh?

But it leads to one of my favourite disease-themed jokes:  During the
United Kingdom BSE outbreak of the 1990s, two Guernsey cows in County
Kent were discussing the morning newspaper (as they do).  One of them
said to the other:  'Say, aren't you worried about mad-cow disease,
then?'

The other smiled and said 'Of course not.  I'm a squirrel.'


> Presumably meat gets contaminated by the CNS during slaughter but it
> isn't primarily the meat.

Well, that's the catch, isn't it?  The UK epidemic was caused by the
then-widespread practice of feeding cows a high-protein feed supplement
called meat-and-bone meal (MBM) that contained the remains of other
animals, which happened to include.... class?  class?  Bueller?  the
processed remains of cattle who had spontaneously developed BSE, plus
that of sheep infected with scrapie, a related prion-based degenerative
nervous disease, and the key error was careless inclusion of brain and
spinal cord tissue in said feed.

With good reason, the consequences of this inexcusable blunder included,
along with 177 human deaths, European Union blanket-banning all British
beef for a decade.


> It's probably a good policy to not eat CNS tissue from any animal.
> CNS- Central Nervous System: Brain and spinal cord.

Word.  ;->


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