Bring out your dead: San Francisco's Impending Cholera Epidemic

American Thinker ^ | 03/2018 | J.R. Dunn

[Billthedrill]

The article is from last march, so when the author says the first epidemic is likely to occur "next summer" he means right now. And so it is.

Interesting disease, cholera. One associates it with third-world sanitation, but not all the third world - Haiti, for example, had never seen the stuff until the UN peacekeeping team from Nepal brought it in during the 2010 relief effort. Just what Haiti needed, another epidemic disease. If it gets into the water supply in San Francisco, chlorination treatment does a very good job of killing it. If it gets into a water supply not so treated or inadequately treated, look out.

So it isn't likely to wipe the city out, only the unwary and the homeless population foolish enough to drink untreated water. It can be contracted through food or beverage or direct contact. A tourist snacking on that raw apple he or she just bought from that romantic little market stall could find a sudden enthusiasm for the toilet, passing 2-5 gallons of fluid a day that way. That's gallons with a G. And it's that that makes it so deadly, especially for children, and so contagious.

Many years ago I was an undergraduate in microbiology, and the class was treated to a series of lectures on public health law by a genial fellow from a nearby law school who opened the first lecture with the assurance that by the time he was done we'd be in terror of our government. He wasn't kidding. The laws in place on this await only the declaration of an emergency to be able to imprison - sorry, I mean "quarantine" - anyone showing symptoms with not much or nothing in the way of due process. They are very harsh and they have been upheld all the way up through the Supreme Court. Certain very liberal journalists (Schilts and Savage, to name two) have excoriated the gay political community in San Francisco for refusing to allow them to be utilized during the AIDS epidemic. The cold truth is that lives were lost because the laws were too politically incorrect to be enforced. That isn't likely to happen this time around. AIDS takes time, cholera blows up in your face.

It doesn't have to happen. Ignorance made it happen in past centuries, but only politics makes it happen now. That may be saying the same thing.

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

No, SF grubbermint couldn’t legally hide cholera, but Legally has never stopped SF Govt. from doing Anything they took a shine to doing.

At least for a while, till the cases backed up and the leaks could no longer be plugged.

Remember the Feds bringing Ebola Victims back into the US to ‘Cure’ them?

What happened to that story?

I’ll lay you dimes to doughnuts those same Feds have vial after vial of the stuff, working on vaccines and weaponizing it at the same time.

[Grampa Dave]

Below: Coming to American Sanctuary $hithole cities without borders, ICE and immigration control!

[oldasrocks]

What we need here is a liberal application of Napalm and then a tsunami to flush things out.

[Bonemaker]

“The city has made itself a magnet for refugees from countries with no modern sewage systems and no tradition of personal hygiene – the same countries in which the WHO asserts that cholera has become “endemic.”

Good. I hope the refugees bring their cholera blankets with them.

[Bonemaker]

Hope they enjoy the forthcoming epidemic. If they think the crap on the streets is bad now, they ain't seen nothing yet!

[Pontiac]

My point is that they could only cover it up with the willing compliance of the doctors doing the diagnosis.

The first cases would be seen in emergency rooms.

I can’t imagine a doctor being willing to go to jail to cover for politicians.

A doctor willing to lose his license an go to jail to cover up Cholera so the city and county of SF can look good?

Aboard certified ER Doctor can get a job anywhere.

[jmcenanly]

I remember reading that during the”Summer of Love “ in 1967,the general lack of hygiene brought on diseases which the physicians of the day had never seen, indeed had not been seen since World War I, some 50 years earlier. It sounds like they do not remember their history.