Did we blame the British for Creutzfeldt-Jakob (mad cow)?
Come on - British beef was some of the safest in the world at that time. Any hint of infection in a herd, and the whole herd was burnt. European countries were burying the infected cows, or, worse still, slaughtering them and adding them into the food chain. British food quality and standards dropped when we came under the control of the EU, and it is going to be a struggle to regain those standards once we have got rid of its insanity and vested interests of the EU federalists.
Don't know what planet you are living on but it's not the same as mine.
GB might have had the ILLUSION of safe / safest. However they were not testing for it. Now these next few words are important. NOBODY WAS TESTING.
So by the time it was known how bad it was (And still is) it was too late and and had spread.
Same with corona-v it looks like a nasty version the flu, it behaves like a nasty version of the flu, once it came out that it was not the flu it was all over. Because it was out of China and spreading. Especially with the long incubation period.
Think about it. If within 72 hours of the 1st cases coming out of China they began a lock-down it was already too late.
14 day incubation period, +/- a few days. Then figure out who came into contact with whom and it's all over the world.
Actually might have made it worse, because when you did get a cluster. Be it just north of NYC or parts of Italy or anyplace else. NOBODY would go "oh fuck, corona" they would go. Crap this flu case really sucks. Take some tamiflu, and go about their day possibly spreading it more.
Either way it's fun to sit here and watch all the "doomsday preppers" freak out about how prepared they are and then cry like little bitches when they find out that surfaces in their bunker tested positive for it because their spouse just tested positive for it also after they were in their bunker doing inventory.
-Dave