“Patrick….there is no financial profit to be made in Community Health aka Public Health…that is why is is funded by the public in the form of government appropriations… Profiteers are NOT interested in providing these kinds of services, believe me, or the Republicans would have eliminated all funding for the CDC and related programs”

Excellent, and I would like to expand on this. Patrick, some efforts are best done through private enterprise, and some are best done by government. Some are best handled on a local level, and some take regional or national or international cooperation.

International cooperation is needed for handling diseases, in particular those which are easily transmissible, as is the case with TB. The CDC coordinates with other similar agencies in other countries when necessary. Moreover, the CDC has been the largest organization of its kind in the world, and formerly at least, its experts in various diseases were called upon ALL OVER THE WORLD to consult when various outbreaks of virulent diseases, such as Ebola, dengue fever, and others have broken out. Many of these diseases are still more-or-less confined to hot climates such as are the case in equatorial Africa and South America, but with worldwide travel, war, etc., these diseases can spread beyond their former borders, and some have done so. See “The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance (Paperback)
” by Laurie Barrett for further details.

Viruses and bacteria know nothing of geographical boundaries artifically imposed by humans, which is why coordination is required beyond the local and sometimes even the national level.

The CDC has been and will continue to be a government funded agency, to act for the good of all of us. It can be either well-run or poorly run, and either well-funded or underfunded. I prefer well-run and well-funded. And I will remind you that regardless of funding level, CDC’s funding is still a drop in the bucket compared to military spending, even though the CDC has international responsibilities.

And don’t waste our time by replying that the CDC is OUR agency and so shouldn’t be acting on an international level. You only display your abysmal ignorance of disease transmission if you do.

I haven’t noticed him lately. Sooner or later all the trolls are reduced to psychotic one-liners. Mr. President is well on his way.

Saywho is normally quite diffcult, but I think he was drunk or high earlier, and he was being horribly disgusting. You can get a little hint of it if you look above. Yuck.

I don’t think that’s Hendler. Hendler has been reduced to psychotic one-liners.

But… but… the fascists are already here (Bush, Cheney, et al…) and not only do they have chemical weapons, they’ve got nukes! Yikes! Now what are we going to do???

Comment by Jay Randal

Sorry, Jay Randal, but it’s too late. Bush has already infected huge swaths of the population w/ a terrible disease – Crippling Stupidity – and it’s reaching epidemic proportions.

Patty would have problems against a heavily armed ferret.

Thanks for removing the vile comments of Saywho.

Z

Nobody here is stopping you from enlisting in the military, Patsy. Go ahead.

Where is your cite?

Modern war is a lot cheaper than modern healthcare.

God forbid we return that money to the taxpayers!

Comment by Zooey — May 31, 2007 @ 8:52 pm

Bwah ha ha ha ha

Saywho is CLEARLY incapacitated.

He should be reported to TP, and be universally ignored by us sane posters.

(Must have been some meeting he went to. ICK)

#115 is what I was waiting for. :-)