Europeans banned from entering the US for 30 days! Apparently the UK is exempted although I'm afraid I don't understand the logic behind that given that Brits still fly to and fro from europe under the misconception that coronovirus attack is something that happens to other people. No doubt led by Parliamentarians who obviously believe the same on the back of some totally skewed but politically acceptable advice from the Govt's Chief Medical Officer. This chap should now be referred to as Billy Liar btw.
So in the face of a viral attack the advice is to sneeze into your sleeve and wash your hands properly! FFS! Isn't that what everybody's mother told them to do? Wtf do they learn at Medical school these days? Boris bloody Johnson in attempting to show us all how to wash our hands obviously hasn't mastered the use of a hospital tap designed to be controlled with the elbows! What a plonker eh?
So here's a rather unsavoury thought, very tongue in cheek but possibly a valid one by the time this is over........... if we look back to 2001 when the Foot and Mouth virus rampaged across the nation (only in tourist areas note
) Sport was affected then when the 6 nations Rugby match at Murrayfield was called off and topically the Cheltenham festival was cancelled along with any racing in affected areas for 8 months until the outbreak was declared over.
Maybe we should learn from the lessons of history how to contain a viral attack efficiently. Step forward Accrington's very own Brigadier Alexander Birtwell,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Birtwistle
Charged with putting a stop to the spread of Foot and Mouth in 2001 the army was brought in to stick their boots up the arses of the dithering Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. In came Brig B and announced that all herds with even a single confirmed case of F&M would be culled completely! Next up any farm with land next to a farm with a case of F&M would have their entire stock culled too!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_United_Kingdom_foot-and-mouth_outbreak
Outbreaks in Europe being dealt with in a different way with all affected stock injected with a vaccine to prevent any spread with the animals being culled in due course.
Now to the crux of the matter and a wild hypothetical question. As a cull of all susceptible mammals (cattle, sheep, goats, alpacas deer etc) was deemed necessary and ultimately successful, shouldn't that be the way forward with coronovirus? Instead we are making fish of one and meat of another. It'd be pretty shitty of course for Chinese living in Wuhan but a total military ring fence around that area at the start might just have put a stop to the current worldwide pandemic with a cull of susceptible mammals being a last ditch option if the lock down didn't work. If they built hospital in 11 days a few rolls of barbed wire / razor wire with machine gun posts every couple of hundred yards or so shouldn't be beyond their capabilities. The Uyghur muslims would testify to the Chinese state's expertise and effectiveness in restricting movement and playing God in that direction.
