Nobody locked up Doc Holiday.
I wasn't aware that Holiday lived in the early 1900s.
Nobody locked up Doc Holiday.
I don't know how else to say this.
You're advocating forced confinement because you claim that it was necessary to stop the spread of TB.
I want you to back it up. How do you know that it was necessary?
I asked you how many people were forcibly confined because that would give us an idea of whether or not it was necessary. If 95% of quarantined people were there voluntarily then you really can't make the claim that involuntary confinement is what stopped the TB epidemic.
Here is a little history...Just a general background...Starts off with Canada...Louisville had a huge TB Hospital (as any ghost hunter that watches sci fi should know)..
TB diagnosis once meant a lonely confinement Patients sent hundreds of miles from home to recover from illness | Windspeaker - AMMSA: Indigenous news, issues and culture.
I wasn't aware that Holiday lived in the early 1900s.
I disagree.
I can wear a mask. I can wash my hands carefully. I can avoid contract with others. I can travel, isolated in my vehicle, only to places where the property owner allows me to reside. I can carry on with my life and even my work while putting no one else at risk.
A person can be sick and contagious and take precautions to avoid infecting others, just like a person can carry around an extremely powerful handgun without shooting people.
What if they go about their life irresponsibly? You stated what seem to be your guidelines for responsible behavior in the previous post. What if a patient goes into crowded areas without mask, without personal hygiene, without any sort of precautions whatsoever? If you are ill and go about your life irresponsibly and are not cautious not to infect others, what should be done with you?[/B]
You may not have a 'right' to walk around spreading an infectious disease, but you do have a right to walk around...don't you?
Just like you don't have a 'right' to walk around shooting people, but you do have a right to walk around while carrying a handgun...don't you?
If you carry your handgun responsibly and don't harm people, should we infringe upon your rights?
If you are ill and go about your life responsibly and are cautious not to infect others, should we infringe upon your rights?
My case is made by history.
What if they go about their life irresponsibly? You stated what seem to be your guidelines for responsible behavior in the previous post. What if a patient goes into crowded areas without mask, without personal hygiene, without any sort of precautions whatsoever? If you are ill and go about your life irresponsibly and are not cautious not to infect others, what should be done with you?
You are insistent upon the handgun comparison. Let's imagine for a moment it was treated like that. Walk around without precautions, if somebody catches it and dies you're charged for the death. Just as if you carry a firearm irresponsibly and end up killing someone. That sound fair to you? It makes sense if you actually hold your comparison to be valid.
Then provide a source already showing that forced confinement saved us all from death by tuberculosis.
Since I never claimed this I will accept it as another attempt on your part to beclown yourself again.
Am I supposed to accept your opinion as fact?
Well, you can deny history if you choose. No one is stopping you.
Courts and juries exist to provide justice for anyone harmed.
Thats' so kindhearted for the survivors to know.
I think it is more reasonable than locking up every handgun owner just in case they are irresponsible. Don't you?
Perhaps you don't understand the meaning of beclowning yourself.
30,000+ people in the USA die every year from the FLU, what are we going to do about it?
considering the vastly different parameters of the flu and tb it's hard to see how a solution for one works as well as a solution to the other. I once knew a man who claimed that we could reduce the amount of drownings each year by forcing everyone to wear seat belts while swimming but not too many people paid attention to him.
But the flu is an epidemic, drowning is not.
30,000+ people in the USA die every year from the FLU, what are we going to do about it?
But the flu is not the same at tb even if the end results are the same, as drowning accident is not the same as a car wreck accident even if the end results are the same. This is not rocket science, bk.
VACCINES!!111one!!!eleven1!!!! D'oh, not that thread again.
Millions have been getting vaccinated every year and yet the death rate remains the same. In 2009, like posted above, less than 600 people died from TB in the U.S.
It could possibly mean that without the vacs the death numbers would be higher, pending vaccination numbers are somewhat constant. The vax itself is merely an educated guess on which flu types will go around as well. I would guess there's a stigma with having TB while the flu is an expectation so we just tolerate it, regardless how bad it is.
The reason it's so hard to get TB here is because everybody is always so when it pops up. We nip it in the bud before it can spread any appreciable amount.Yep. There are millions dead from TB world wide but less than 600 a year here apparently. I have a better chance of hitting the damn lottery it seems than getting TB but everyone is