It Never Ends

This week's announcement by the British Horse-racing Authority, that they were closing down all horse-racing venues and cancelling all horse-races until at least Wednesday because of a series of six instances of infections of the equine influenza virus at a stable in Cheshire (remember I was recently telling you all how cold it was in Cheshire where a lot of footballers have their mansions?) - is in my mind at least, a very complicated story. (The article about Cheshire is the one on January 12 this year: 'Real, Practical Value').

I suppose I have only ever but vaguely indicated what my own distant past was and how come I have access to a deep file of clandestine activities involving the Australian government in concert with Whitehall in the UK. But, it won't be totally foreign to most of you that back more than fifty years ago now, the British government conducted completely clandestine nuclear tests at Maralinga in South Australia, leaving radiation damage for hundreds of thousands of years there. At the same time as those tests were happening, Phillip Island off the Victoria coast was the site of tests of weaponized disease vectors, under the supervision of, once again, the British government and not the Australian government. You see, since before that time, and since that time, and even now, there are a lot of people at the top of government and its bureaucracy in Australia who are a little confused about the idea of 'sovereign nation...'

And there's nothing I intend to do about that issue - it's a waste of time. You're dealing with a HUGE, international network of people quite convinced in the moral perspicacity of what they are doing.

Australian lawyer and media relations expert,
Brant Dunshea

Now the head of the BHA (the main horse-racing authority there in England), is one Brant Dunshea from Australia, and he is being billed in the media right now as an 'expert in the management of outbreaks of equine influenza and other issues of animal disease security.' He is a lawyer and a media personality, in fact. Which is not to say that these may not quite necessarily be the focus of British Horse-racing, because, you're going to have people interested in suing you whichever way you turn on just about anything when it comes to big money matters. That's fair enough. And by the way, Brant Dunshea is a really top guy from every report from people knowledgeable in the Australian Horse-racing world.

...But I am telling you, and you don't need to believe me, but nevertheless I am saying it - the 'equine influenza' narrative that has closed down British Horse-racing is to do with Brexit.

The media is very widely repeating the line that 'in 2007 equine influenza stopped Australian racing for four months.' That never happened. Some stables were quarantined for a few weeks and some locations were blocked from transporting horses in or out for 72 hours. HOURS, not months. 

Equine influenza is rarely fatal to horses, and is NOT zoonotic (able to leap between various species) - the Hendra virus is deadly and is zoonotic. I'm justing adding these facts in case you see some blurring of stories between things like Hendra, and the EI virus.

Now bearing in mind that the BBC kindly related that 'a Yellow Vest PROTESTER lost a finger when a rubber pellet struck them' - when in fact an innocent female bystander lost a hand when a grenade exploded next to her; and the BBC also told us four people had lost the vision of one eye when struck by rubber pellets - when eight hundred people have been injured in the eyes and eighty people with permanent vision loss and several having actually had an eyeball removed either by the bullets or subsequent surgery... ...then I suggest you'd better listen to me and not to the general media; it'll save your life one day very soon. I said 'will' save your life, not 'might.'