It is not humor.  I am being totally serious here. 

If we have a government that is being this incompetent in their handling of a new disease just because it hasn't hit epidemic proportions here in the United States and there isn't huge public outcry about it, isn't this the outcome?

Could your husband not have been spared due to a little medical common  sense?  Just because the possible incubation time is very long, and we will not see the results of bad policy until long after the current group of politicians and policy makers are gone, does that mean we should allow such poor decisions on tses?

I will grant you that in the beginning of such a disease there will be some mistakes just because we don't know about the disease.  Your husband, I hope, was one of these casualties instead of a cruel calculation of economics.  The more we hear about this disease, the more we are evidence that it is the former, instead of the latter.

Do we really want diseases to be handled in this manner?  How about wars?

Reader, I am not trying to be humorous.  I am trying to bring the possible (and I say possible because bse science is not my thing) results of such policies out in the open for everyone to see.  A failed policy on bse could have enormous implications.

Science should not be manipulated by the self interests of politicians.  The problem is that politicians are the ones we have making these decisions-----and don't discount the results I pose.  It is not meant to be humorous.  My wife has that dental implant, as you know, and I take your and flounder's experience seriously.

It seems to me that our food safety is taking a backseat to economic preference of policy makers.  The smoke is there.