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"No sugar coating, you're saying 75-80 percent is the goal...," Dana Bash, CNN
Incline Village, Nev. (EOC Net)-- At the turn of the last century, the cattle industry was inflicted with brucellosis, also known by its more common name of "contagious abortion," as reported in the Kansas Farmer;
"6. Abortion disease can be controlled by proper methods of herd management. Control is dependent on three fundamental principles: (1) Preventing the spread of infection. (2) Developing herd immunity. (3) Treating affected animals to promote recovery and preserve the reproductive function."
The pamphlet notes that the original method of containing brucellosis was to send all of the stock to the block. That thinking gradually evolved to keeping the healthy cattle that produced healthy offspring as they appeared to be immune to the disease;
"The vigorous heifer calves which reach maturity in spite of the disease are naturally from the more resistant cows and they seem to inherit this tolerance."
It suggested that "Herd improvement can also be secured through the use of pure-bred sires."
The pamphlet recommends not introducing new breeding cows into the herd, infection persisted where cows were constantly bought and sold. The proper course of action was based directly on;
"Herd immunity is developed, therefore, by retaining the immune cows, raising the calves, and avoiding the introduction of foreign cattle."
It is a terrifying thought that in the future, if not with coronavirus, the next more resilient strain of a deadly virus might well force the human population to resort to the simple rules of cattle breeding as set forth in the Kansas Farmer pamphlet, which include the elimination of infected individuals and the practice of eugenics to develop herd immunity in the population.
A year later, The Kansas City Star recommended more robust procedures;
"To prevent dissemination of the infection the aborting cow should be isolated and the dead calf and membranes destroyed; the genitals of the cow should be flushed immediately after abortion; the bull should be allowed to serve only healthy cows; quarters should be disinfected, sanitary methods of feeding followed, and the proper sanitary surroundings provided."
That same method for preservation of the stock was recommended for other farm animals inflicted with other types of contagious disease, such as hogs. The Star article noted that those stockmen interested in preserving their herds should contact Doctor Potter at the state agricultural college. In his column "Livestock Questions Answered," published in The Oregon Daily Journal, Dr. M. Howes, Veterinarian, offered similar advice;
"The prevention of infection to your herd can be made possible by the refusal to breed outside cows to your bull, and the raising of your own young animals so as not to admit any new animals to your herd. This is called herd immunity."
By 1925, Dr. I. Forest Huddleston after four years of work at the Michigan Agricultural College, developed a vaccine "living culture" that prevented the transmission of brucellosis, as reported in the Lexington Kentucky Leader. There was no question as to what caused the disease to spread, its remedy was clouded in how to go about preventing it.
With respect to the current pandemic in the human population, mitigation measures certainly have not reached the extreme to send the infected individuals to "the block" and there also doesn't seem to be any desire to breed with only "pure-bred sires." The very suggestion of the latter would bring on violent cultural repercussions and resistance. Curiously, Dr. Anthony Fauci, when interviewed by Dana Bash on CNN's "State of the Union" yesterday, might have accidentally suggested exactly that;
(07:13) BASH: No sugar-coating, ... you're saying 75-80 percent is the goal (for herd immunity)...when is that supposed to happen?"
FAUCI: Well if you look at the logistics of it, Dana, we're going through the priority groups we started with...(mentions others such as front line workers and underlying condition patients)..."
Fauci then mentions "essential people in society." (07:50) The immunologist then sugar-coats over just who these so-called "essential people" are, but from what was discovered above in the infected cattle, it certainly isn't the foreigners bought and sold at the auctions. It brings into question just who decides who these elite, gifted, immune people are with special privileges over the infected herd. In fact, what has been noted recently, many of these so-called essentials are indeed the ones breaking the rules and getting the virus. Fauci then refers to the general population vaccine effort as "open season."
Possibly by accident alone, Dr. Fauci finds himself cornered by the very semantics he needs to avoid to prevent falling into the eugenics trap waiting somewhere down the graph if the vaccines fail to curtail.
CNN's Dana Bash interviews Dr. Anthony Fauci on Herd Immunity
The immunologist discusses the variable factor in herd immunity as related to mitigation and vaccination
Cited:
Kansas Farmer, 26 October 1918, Page 4.
The Kansas City Star, 30 April 1919, Page 15.
The Oregon Daily Journal, 10 April 1920, Page 6.
Lexington Leader, 18 February 1925, Page 9.
Bash-Fauci, SOTU, Fauci: The worst is yet to come in covid fight (cnn.com)
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