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Florida Accused of Concealing Worst Tuberculosis Outbreak In 20 Years
NotSanguine writes "The state of Florida has been struggling for months with what the Centers for Disease Control describe as the worst tuberculosis outbreak in the United States in twenty years. Although a CDC report went out to state health officials in April encouraging them to take concerted action, the warning went largely unnoticed and nothing has been done. The public did not even learn of the outbreak until June, after a man with an active case of TB was spotted in a Jacksonville soup kitchen. The Palm Beach Post has managed to obtain records on the outbreak and the CDC report, though only after weeks of repeated requests. These documents should have been freely available under Florida's Sunshine Law."
TB was pretty much a solved problem in the 1st world. Then we decided we couldn't force people into quarantine to ensure they got proper treatment and to prevent the spread of such a readily transmissible disease. And then AIDS pitched in to help brew up especially virilent strains in immune compromised patients with no self control. Add in the general problem if drug resistence and we have a major epidemic waiting to happen. Who knows where it will go nuts, but sooner or later... BAM!
You've correctly identified the problem, but not the cause. In this country, the poor do not receive medical treatment. This historically leads to plague. It happened in Rome. It happened in London. And now it's happening here. And ObamaCare won't solve a damn thing: It only succeeds in criminalizing being poor. Now, if you don't carry the health insurance you couldn't afford before ObamaCare, you'll be fined. And when you can't pay the fine, because you can't afford that either, you'll go to jail. Where you'll then receive no medical treatment, get sick, and while walls and bars may stop people, they don't stop plague.
So you see, ObamaCare might seem like a modern thing, but it's really a very ancient thing -- and it's also a bad implimentation of said ancient thing. You take care of your sick and your poor. Period. You don't do that, and everybody dies. America won't be destroyed by terrorists, or some nation-state going nuclear, or a military invasion. It's going to die because we all get sick and perish because we failed to learn the lesson that the world has been teaching humanity for the past 20,000 years:
Either you keep the population healthy, or you die. All. Of. You. It really is just that simple.
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