... what was the number of people who died of ebola from an infection they received on American soil, again?
Yes, every life ends in a fatality. :roll:
In the meantime, there are some who live with life-threatening conditions and who are, obviously, more vulnerable than you are and who must depend on "super-drugs" should they become infected or, more likely, re-infected. Once you have a MRSA, for example, you are more "attractive" to super-bugs than the rest of the population. If the super-drug doesn't work, you're screwed.
So to continue your apparent line of thinking, I guess it just sucks to be them.
One problem, as discussed in this thread, is that new antibiotics have not been found. My example is Vancomycin.
The problem, Enigma, is not one of someone "just" coming up with a new antibiotic. If it were, we wouldn't be discussing it.Have not been found -- yet.
OTOH antibiotics will be old science some day. Gene therapy and altering genes is the future.
Well, yes. And I should've qualified my statement with "most" just as you should've qualified yours with the same. Some cancers kill in mere months.
Probably the best thing that could happen to the earth. We are like a virus that kills it's host.
One problem, as discussed in this thread, is that new antibiotics have not been found. My example is Vancomycin.
"made its way to the USA"...as every such disease does. The government can't screen out poop bacteria, yet they are the ones who will keep us safe from Isis infiltrating the USA! Doesn't feel very reassuring.
What are your solutions? Let me guess... something something ban immigrants.Come on, you did not confidently assert your position on the matter in your zika thread. Then you got exposed for lying at all costs in another thread about my position on the zika virus. Let's see if you can come out of your shell here.
By the way, the Teutoburg Monument?
It's not as subtle as you think it is.
... what was the number of people who died of ebola from an infection they received on American soil, again?
You were close. But I think the right's correct solution would be:
Something, something ban immigrants...and lower taxes on the rich.
We don't want to ban immigrants. We just don't see the sanity of rewarding people who break our laws and circumvent our immigration system.
Yeah, we shouldn't improve our containment protocols until after a deadly contagious disease gets out.
Why learn a lesson from the severe breaches in containment protocol during the ebola scare if nobody got sick! :roll:
Are you saying you do not want to ban immigrants, Pipe...
...or are you giving your reasons for wanting to do that?
My ancestors were immigrants. I think immigration is vital to this country and will continue to make it great. Criminals with no respect for our laws entering this country illegally are not immigrants. They are invaders, illegal aliens, and a cancer destroying this country. Rewarding bad behavior with a citizenship is insane and will only make the problem worse. Rewarding people to break our laws is beyond stupidity.
That is government 101. Build proper levees after Katrina. Evacuate the people after the hurricane and it is virtually impossible.
Hopefully the out break will be in DC and solve most of this countries problems.
Indeed.
And after listening to some of the conversations taking place here in DP...perhaps it is overdue.
I'd really rather it not happen until after we perfect AI...which should happen during the lifetime of people now alive.
Are you really saying people on this site should die from some superbug? Because you seem to be indicating that. Which would make this post one of the most disgusting I've seen anywhere.
A huge majority of our "illegal immigrants" seem to be people enticed from Mexico by farmers in California and the other border states...who need coolies to do work for pay so low no American would even consider it.
Many businesses in America would shut down if it weren't for those "illegal immigrants"...and the cost of our food would probably double.
But the "problem" is not what what most conservatives think it is...and the solution is light years away from the absurd, maniacal solutions some of them are proposing.
They are not immigrants. Most come and return to their country. An immigrant is a person migrating to this country. These people working here should have a visa or work permit. They should be paid min mum wage. They should pay taxes for the right to work here and use our roads and infrastructure. We don't know the needed work force from the cartel, gangs, and criminals. This is ridiculous.
No. Businesses would not shut down. Greedy corrupt business owners would be forced to pay people a decent wage. The cost of food would not double. I buy local grown fruits and vegetables where I live and they are compatible with the fruits and vegetables I get from California using slave labor. Another lie by the greedy to exploit workers. I can afford a cotton t-shirt and we don't need slaves to pick the cotton. Just more lies.
More lies. Securing our border is not absurd. Knowing who is entering this country and where they are working is not absurd. Requiring these people to report where they are working and forcing businesses to pay minimum wage is not absurd. Requiring these workers to pay their fair share of taxes to maintain our infrastructure is not absurd. Deporting people with no respect for our laws and circumventing our immigration system is not absurd.
What is absurd is rewarding criminals circumventing our immigration policy with a citizenship. Allowing criminals to sneak into this country and have anchor babies to circumvent our immigration system is absurd. Allowing business owners to not pay people a fair wage, not pay their fair share of taxes, and use this slave labor to undermine a livable wage is absurd.
Can we hold off on that until I finish my move out of town?
Sure. Hurry up.
My FATHER was born out of this country...he was an immigrant. My MOTHER was first generation...both her parents were immigrants.
We are a nation of immigrants, Pipe. We both know that.
A huge majority of our "illegal immigrants" seem to be people enticed from Mexico by farmers in California and the other border states...who need coolies to do work for pay so low no American would even consider it.
Many businesses in America would shut down if it weren't for those "illegal immigrants"...and the cost of our food would probably double.
You are right...we have to do something about this problem.
But the "problem" is not what what most conservatives think it is...and the solution is light years away from the absurd, maniacal solutions some of them are proposing.
Just sayin'.
Whoopty do, we bring in a million a year which aint chicken feed. We have nothing to feel guilty about if we choose to not take more, or if we refuse to follow the lefty argument that national borders have to go away because they run (according to them) against human rights.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...tors-have-been-dreading-just-reached-the-u-s/
"For the first time, researchers have found a person in the United States carrying bacteria resistant to antibiotics of last resort, an alarming development that the top U.S. public health official says could mean "the end of the road" for antibiotics.
The antibiotic-resistant strain was found last month in the urine of a 49-year-old Pennsylvania woman. Department of Defense researchers determined that she carried a strain of E. coli resistant to the antibiotic colistin, according to a study published Thursday in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, a publication of the American Society for Microbiology. The authors wrote that the discovery "heralds the emergence of a truly pan-drug resistant bacteria."
Colistin is the antibiotic of last resort for particularly dangerous types of superbugs, including a family of bacteria known as CRE, which health officials have dubbed "nightmare bacteria." In some instances, these superbugs kill up to 50 percent of patients who become infected. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has called CRE among the country's most urgent public health threats."
That's... disconcerting.
Who is the "we" you talking about?
Got a mouse in your pocket, Hawk?
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