Foot and Mouth

[crickleymal]

It's reckoned that a large percentage of the infections in Gloucestershire are clustered around the race course and the train station and result from the Cheltenham Festival. Not a small spike either.

 

[mikem]

www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/cheltenham-news/leaked-map-shows-postcode-next-4071259.amp

& national map, demonstrating effect it's having on cities:
https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/health/interactive-postcode-map-allows-you-4098021.amp

 

[grahams]

It's reckoned that a large percentage of the infections in Gloucestershire are clustered around the race course and the train station and result from the Cheltenham Festival. Not a small spike either.

27 hospital admissions following an event which 250,000 people attended is a small spike, though not insignificant. The size of the spike backs up the virologist's conclusions that this is an indoor disease. By contrast, 8 of our U3A cycling group members contracted C19 from a quiz night in a small local pub with at most 50 or 60 people in it.

 

[grahams]

It seems to me that we've yet again shut the countryside down for no good reason

grahams please do not EVER EVER say that sentence in relation to Foot & Mouth

Like the latest pandemic you really should not make light of it unless you have personal experience of it. 

And yes people did die, they committed suicide having seen all their animals killed due to the disease!

I'm not making light of anything. Please don't put words in my mouth. Your last sentence backs up my comment.

 

[droid]

Didn't realise grahams was an epidemiologist.

I've lived through two F&M epidemics and the local reaction to people wandering around farmland wasn't positive in either epidemic. Not in Derbyshire anyway.

 

[NewStuff]

GrahamS once again proves he's spouting conjecture. F&M in the early 00's made me, and many others, redundant. No real way round it either, what needed to be done was done.

 

[crickleymal]

It's reckoned that a large percentage of the infections in Gloucestershire are clustered around the race course and the train station and result from the Cheltenham Festival. Not a small spike either.

27 hospital admissions following an event which 250,000 people attended is a small spike, though not insignificant. The size of the spike backs up the virologist's conclusions that this is an indoor disease. By contrast, 8 of our U3A cycling group members contracted C19 from a quiz night in a small local pub with at most 50 or 60 people in it.

27 infections in Cheltenham which is a large percentage of those in Gloucestershire at that point in time. Let alone how many people carried it to there parts of the UK and Ireland.