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As far back as 1989, the dangers of humans being contaminated by the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) agent were foreseeable. The Commission and Member States such as France waited until 1996 before taking protection measures.
In the same way, the ultraliberalism of Mrs Thatcher’s Government had led the British Government to dismantle its national veterinary networks. When foot and mouth disease swept through Great Britain’s cattle and pig farms in 2003, there was no longer any kind of health barrier. Millions of animals were slaughtered as a precautionary measure and gigantic pyres burned everything. Only the ideological foolishness of ultraliberalism and of misguided free trade remained intact.
After the laxness of
policies, we are now moving in a direction whereby, in the case of avian influenza, an attempt is being made deliberately to obscure the issue by exploiting people’s basic fears. All of this is dressed up as a precautionary principal that is nothing more than the regressive reaction of an Amish-style European elite.
A virus, non-existent at the present time and dreamed up by a political world seeking to make amends for its past weaknesses in the field of health care by implementing health protection measures left, right and centre, is meant to be threatening humankind with a Hollywood-style pandemic on a par with Spanish flu.
Taking this as a starting point, we stockpile ineffective antivirals such as Tamiflu at the same time as increasing people’s fears to make them forget about the inadequate measures taken in relation to relocations, Islamisation and other genuine problems that, for their part, remain overlooked."@en1
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