The agent that was sent in has succeeded in his mission.
Posted on 11/10/2011 1:18:11 PM PST by Hunton Peck
ATLANTA (CBS Atlanta) – The home base for Occupy Atlanta has tested positive for tuberculosis.
The Fulton County Health Department confirmed Wednesday that residents at the homeless shelter where protesters have been occupying have contracted the drug-resistant disease. WGCL reports that a health department spokeswoman said there is a possibility that both Occupy Atlanta protesters and the homeless people in the shelter may still be at risk since tuberculosis is contracted through air contact.
“Over the last three months were have been two persons who have resided in this facility who have been diagnosed with confirmed or suspected infectious tuberculosis (TB),” said Fulton County Services Director Matthew McKenna in a written statement to CBS Atlanta. “One of these persons was confirmed to have a strain of TB that is resistant to a single, standard medication used to treat this condition. All person(s) identified as positive have begun treatment and are being monitored to ensure that medication is taken as directed.”
The Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless has indicated that two cases have been made public knowledge to the group, the first coming from someone who contracted the disease in September. The identities of the people who have contracted the disease, however, have not been disclosed by the health department to this point.
The news of the tuberculosis contractions could force Occupy Atlanta to move once again. WGCL reports that more than 100 protesters made the move to the homeless shelter Oct. 30 after Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed evicted Occupy Atlanta from Woodruff Park, citing that they were no longer allowed to camp out overnight. The homeless shelter is also facing an eviction of its own from the city.
Messages left by CBS Atlanta for Occupy Atlanta and the Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless were not immediately returned.
The agent that was sent in has succeeded in his mission.
They want to eliminate American exceptionalism.
Hot flash:
This is why us Right Wing Greedy Banker types don't want to share our mansions with filthy stupid white trash drunks and thieving crack smoking ghetto rejects.
Our health plans don't want to pay to cure unnecessary Third World diseases, contracted in some Socialist Utopia... Is leprosy going to become the new badge of honor for the 99%?
Well there you go.
It costs tons of money to treat drug resistant tuberculosis. Who is going to pay for it? I wish we could send them to Cuba.
Great. Not that I care about the OWS protesters, but I wonder how many are now at risk thanks to them.
[ Part of me wants to relish the schadenfreude.
Another part of me is outraged by the refusal of city administrators and police to enforce the law. There is a reason for regulations about overnight camping in urban parks, basic sanitation in handling food and waste, etc. It’s to try to ensure public health and safety.
Those officials are being grossly negligent in their duties for cheap political gain. ]
How ironic it would be if this were how a Global Flu Pandemic started....
Yeah, since the Occupy jerks broke and EMT’s leg, If I were a medic I wouldn’t want to help ANYONE at these loony bin events.
Welcome to Obamaville.
LOL! :)
Bubonic plague to follow shortly.
After all, the The Sheriff Of Nottingham's Men will protect the City administration from the riot.
All the small business owners will get burned out, but while they pay bribes to the city, they aren't a good source of political donations.
its socialism at work, they are just spreading the disease around
LMFAO!!!!!
Agreed. The small business owners near these “camps” are being hurt the worst. The deadbeats chase off business but demand to use their facilities.
Great point. As we enter flu season, how many of those deadbeats do you think got shots??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrmUkq0jXYA
Roy, go get your FLIT GUN!!!
One day about four or five years ago
We is settin’ at the Conoco station
Kickin’ tires, and swattin’ flies,
And discussin’ the State of the Union
When right out in front of the Baptist church
Come a big ol’ purple school bus
Had astrological signs upon it
And thirty-five hippies and dogs inside
About half of ‘em went for the courthouse lawn
And them dogs commenced on the fireplug
Rest of ‘em set there starin’ at us
And I says, “Roy, go get your Flit gun”
He says, “Which is the hippies? And which is the dogs?”
I says, “Beats the hell outta me, Roy.”
What they was, was a bunch a’ them Crispy Critters
And their leader was a space cadet
He says, “Sagittarius, we has arrived.
“Prepare to disembark, men.
“Get the incense goin’ and the sitar out
“We gonna camp in the city park, man.”
I says, “Boys, let me explain the situation to ya.
“A: you’re gettin’ me down
“And B: we got us a leash law here
“And C: you in the wrong town.
“You drop one string a’ beads in that there park
“And you gonna see a whole lotta stars.
“You got fifteen seconds to get out of town, boys,
“Or we gonna blow ya ta Mars.”
Well, they all got back in the purple bus
And proceeded to the city limits.
Then the telephone rang, was the swimmin’ pool
[- From :http://www.elyrics.net/read/c/c.W.-mcCall-lyrics/crispy-critters-lyrics.html -]
Says a mess a’ wild Critters was in it!
So we all got in the Marshal’s Plymouth
(Which is always at the Conoco station)
Went flashin’ on down to the swimmin’ pool
To give them Critters a citation
By the time we arrived, it was too damn late
Them critters is all had their pants down
Them dogs was tearin’ the bathhouse apart,
And they’s after the fish in the fish pond!
I says, “Roy, you get the one in the silver T-shirt
“And I’ll get the rest with a net.
“We gonna have a jail full a’ naked Crispy Critters
“And a drip-dry space cadet.”
[You’ve watched The Dukes of Hazzard, haven’t you? C’mon, admit it; nobody’s looking. Well, at this point in the song there’s a short interlude which resembles a car chase on Dukes. There’s banjo pickin’ and yee-hawin’ and a general sense of raucous abandon. Oh, yeah, and a few dog barks. It’s round-up time at the swimmin’ pool.]
Well, we gave ‘em hell, but we lost the war
‘Cause them Critters outnumbered us
So they moved in and set up camp
And they lived in that purple school bus
Six weeks later, there was nothin’ in town
But eighty-four dogs and a head shop
Sellin’ dried up weeds, and sunflower seeds,
And astrological postcards
Yeah, Critters took over the City Council
And the dogs all barked their brains out
And the whole damn town was Crispy Critters
And the mayor was a space cadet
To be liberal is to be hypocritical.
Wait till someone lets loose a few thousand bedbugs. And those sleeping bags make it back home to infect the family digs.
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