• Remmock
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    Prions are not a disease like COVID or Staph. You don’t fight Prions. You contract prions and then you slowly and inevitably die from your brain being swiss cheesed because they’re abnormal protein chains that trigger breakdowns of other proteins. We dealt with this being directly in the food chain from the Mad Cow issue of the 90’s and as a species we made it through so readily that people are talking about this like it’s never happened before. We’re going to be okay.

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      Issue is we now have a decent population of people who will eat the tainted meat because “The government is lying” and trick others into eating it, saying, “See? You’re fine, that was ‘tainted’, the government is lying to you”

      This could legitimately cause damage because the fringe crazy is now much more populous

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        The nice part about prion diseases is that the only thing those people will achieve is killing themselves off, unless you decide to start eating their corpses

        • Icalasari
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          12 years ago

          Just make sure not to trust any gifts of meat from these numbnuts

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        32 years ago

        I mean, if you look at what happened during the BSE outbreak in the UK, this is basically exactly what happened. There was a politician who even fed his 4 year old kid a burger on TV to show how perfectly safe the meat was.