Re: Lows stores and Spanglish........

On Thu, 07 Sep 2006 13:34:39 -0500, F. George McDuffee
<gmcduffee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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In many places..they have if you count maids, nannies and yard
workers...
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True, but not what I meant. They don't normally bring their kids
and problems with them on the job. These stay in the working
class and poverty neighborhoods.

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Gunner is right again.

In an email conversation about this, with a very dear friend who
just retired from the CDC [Center for Disease Control], I was
informed that you are (again) more right than perhaps you
realized.

In the early 90s a series of clusters of *HIGHLY* drug resistant
TB cases initially in older children and young adults were
reported in several exceptionally affluent areas. A posh suburb
of NYC, an exclusive area in LA and two very upscale gated
communities in Texas. The speed of spread and number of cases
being reported suggested a pandemic rather than an epidemic. In
addition to the disease control aspects, the people involved (or
at least their parents) and city officials had very good
political connections, so there was no hope of giving them the
"blow off" regular citizens' would receive.

As it was related to me, the particular strain of TB being
encountered was strange, given the location of the outbreaks in
the highly upscale areas, in that it generally occurred only in
very crowded conditions, and even then only in people that
several times failed to complete the entire course of the
standard antibiotic treatments, thus selecting for drug
resistance.

All the stops were pulled out, and it was determined that the
initial outbreaks/transmission was from a few illegal aliens from
one tiny area of an obscure Central American country where TB was
endemic.

These had scattered to the 5 areas on entry into the United
States, apparently joining relatives in typically crowded
conditions and transmitting the drug resistant TB. Apparently
because of the cost, the aliens would/could buy just enough
antibiotic to get them through the immediate acute crisis, but
not enough to eliminate the TB infection, thus continually
selecting for drug resistance, while avoiding qualified medical
care out of fear of being reported to the INS. Because there is
no sick leave with casual employment/day labor, they would go to
work even if they were overtly sick, and in a highly communicable
stage.

As soon as the infected people came into close contact with their
employers, employers' children, etc. as maids, cooks, nannies,
yard boys, etc. they infected them, and they then passed on the
disease to others.

While a few dollars were "saved" by the employment of the
"undocumented workers" because of the low wages and no need to
pay social security and workman's comp, the costs to the
communities involved, and the parents, to contain the TB epidemic
were and are staggering. It was reported that many of the
residents of the affluent areas were still on antibiotics to
control their outbreaks, and these regimens of antibiotics often
have serious side effects.

This continues to be a serious problem, and many other exotic
diseases such as Dengue fever [AKA "breakbone fever" because of
the excruciating joint pains it causes] are "waiting in the
wings." *ONE* infected person in the acute stage of the disease
in a mosquito-infected area could cause an epidemic, and if it
got into the animal population, this could become endemic.

The CDC (and apparently the USPS) has received verbal
instructions from very high up to minimize publicity about this
particular problem, although reported instances continue to
increase.

Welcome to the "Brave New World Order" of unlimited global free
trade and migration.


Unka George (George McDuffee)
......................................................................
The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad.
His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction:
they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting,
and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be,
no matter how wicked or stupid.

Denis Diderot (1713-84), French philosopher.
Refutation of Helvétius (written 1773-76;
first published 1875; repr. in Selected Writings,
ed. by Lester G. Crocker, 1966).
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