You’re off-base there. It is no secret that Los Angeles and San Francisco have contaminated needles and excrement on the ground, making them vulnerable to blood-borne pathogens as well as bacterial pathogens in feces. If I was referring to “lib cities” I would have mentioned Chicago, Austin, Dallas, San Antonio, El Paso, St. Paul, Atlanta, Detroit, etc. So far, none of those have the health hazards of those major cities in California.
What would liberals do without paranoia and a victim complex? Not everything is about you.
You don’t get the flu from feces. It’s a viral, airborne infection. Bacterial infections are becoming more common because feces is one of the reservoirs. Not to mention parasitic infections such as Schistosoma and Giardia.
Before you ask the question, gut flora bacteria is not meant to be consumed or moved to anywhere else in the body, becuase it also contains human waste and what our bodies don’t want.
I’m sorry I don’t mean to sound condescending, but have you ever taken Epidemiology? Immunology? Virology? Biology? Parasitology? Microbiology? I recommend taking one of these before you analyze these situations. It will make interpreting them so much easier.
I would also think that cities in California would also be at risk for Clonorchis sinensis, or the Chinese liver fluke, given that Angel Island is in the state as a big immigration center. That, with the bubonic plague that is rising again in Los Angeles, as well as this virus…this spells disaster.
At this point in time, based on the available data, this is much more media hysteria than a true emergency. Unless China is completely fabricating the numbers, this particular strain of coronavirus does not appear to be significantly more virulent than typical strain. It does not approach the severity of SARS or MERS and as of now has a transmission rate (R0 to keep it simple) that is somewhat high, but still much lower than SARS.
This could change. It could hit a huge population center, mutate and become more severe/transmissible. China could be drastically underreporting and we already have an emergency. I think both of those are unlikely.
Well your last comment is certainly not true as demonstrated by the travel restrictions, our own DOS evacuating Americans, and the precautions being taken here at home and in Europe.
Not entirely true. One of the most effective controls for chronic gut ailments is the ingestion of probiotics.
In life stock it’s common to actually mix a little feces with feed to regain the floral balance after antibiotic treatment or physical stress such as shipping.
Strong precautions are not a metric of disease severity. Disease mortality and rate of spread are. I’ll base my views on these facts rather than how tough the travel restrictions are.
