Elizabeth Warren’s prescription for preventing disease outbreaks; public health and climate action.
PREVENTING, CONTAINING, AND TREATING INFECTIOUS DISEASE OUTBREAKS AT HOME AND ABROAD
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My plan to stop pandemics invests in public health, restores American leadership at home and abroad, and leads with science. Add your name if you agree: We need a president who is prepared.
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In 2015 the state of Indiana experienced an outbreak of HIV stemming from the ongoing opioid epidemic. In a county with a population of less than 25,000, over 200 people contracted the virus. Simultaneously, Zika virus was spreading throughout the U.S. and causing birth defects in children born to some infected pregnant women.
In 2019, the U.S. saw a rise in outbreaks of measles — a disease we had eliminated in 2000. And today, the 2018 Ebola outbreak continues in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Experts believe the world is due for another bout of pandemic influenza. The latest threat comes from coronavirus, a respiratory condition in the same family of viruses as SARS that is spreading throughout China and just last week reached the United States. With well over 2,000 people infected and a rising death toll, China has restricted the movement of 56 million people. The world is watching closely to determine if this will be designated as our next global Public Health Emergency.
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On the global stage, his decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement demonstrates reckless denial about the role of climate change in fueling epidemics. His foreign policy has damaged long-standing alliances with partners like the U.K. and France, who are critical partners in responding to global health crises.
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Read more: https://elizabethwarren.com/plans/combating-infectious-disease-outbreaks?source=soc-WB-ew-tw-rollout-20200128
Elizabeth Warren’s suggestion that membership of the Paris Agreement helps prevent disease outbreaks is undermined by the evidence that China’s support for Paris doesn’t seem to be helping with their outbreak.
As for public health, its a bit like any form of socialism; failures are because the other people didn’t do it right.
Rats and cockroaches among thousands of pests found in NHS hospitals
The creatures have been sighted in maternity wards, children’s intensive care units and operating theatres
Scott D’Arcy Friday 30 December 2016 02:11
Thousands of pests including cockroaches and rats have been found in NHS hospitals in each of the last five years as the cost of tackling them has spiralled, new figures show.
The creatures have been sighted in maternity wards, children’s intensive care units and operating theatres.
There were nearly 5,000 pest control call-outs by NHS trusts to hospitals in England between 2015/16 – equivalent to around 13 a day, according to data obtained by the Press Association under Freedom of Information laws.
The amount of money hospitals spent on treating pests reached nearly £1.1m in the year to March 2016 and the overall figure is likely to be far higher as 87 of around 150 trusts responded to the request.
Some refused to say how much they had spent, citing private finance initiative (PFI) deals or that the information was “commercially sensitive”.
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I have personally seen rats scurrying around a major UK hospital, when I was visiting someone who was ill.
I’m not saying private health is perfect, but the big problem with government public health is lack of choice. With public health, you aren’t a consumer who can shop around, you take a ticket and join a queue. Not every British hospital is a rat and cockroach infested nightmare, many of them are well run. But you don’t have the option of only attending well run hospitals.
Even when you know your local hospital is infested with rats and cockroaches, in Britain there is not a lot you can do about it, other than pay twice for medical cover; the mandatory charge for public health, and whatever additional money you can scrape together for a private health plan. Because the incompetent and corrupt managers running the roach motels are unionised government employees; almost impossible to fire.
Of course, the Democrats have a track record with assuring people they will keep their right to choose, so maybe you can trust Warren to get it right. President Obama assured everyone that under Obamacare people would have the choice of keeping their current doctor.
No doubt Elizabeth Warren’s climate plan will also help ensure rats and cockroaches never infest hospitals in her version of the USA’s new public health system.
Climate change: Simultaneously the universal the excuse for past bad Progressive policy failure, and the excuse for more bad Progressive policy.
Backward and forward, so very monotonic.
Pocahontas crazy, lyin’ socialist.
Pocahonta ?? Nahh .. Her given native American name is “Walking Eagle” !
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Bird is so full of shit, that it can’t fly …
Fauxcahontas speak with forked tongue.
I read a comment on another post saying “I wonder when they will blame the corona virus on climate change” and fake native america warren beat everybody to it…
Also, I’ve been to a few hospitals in the uk for tests and emergency visits, as I was ill over the last two years, and I honestly never saw any bugs, or waste material laying around, even the toilets were clean. Most nhs hospitals are run by trusts who waste money, but most spend the money were it should be spent.
The bad hospitals exist. Obviously I can’t name them because I don’t have a bottomless taxpayer funded legal account. But there is a hospital in a Midlands city where someone I know was recovering from a debilitating stroke, so they were pretty helpless; there were rats running around her ward, snatching scraps of food.
There is another hospital in the Home Counties I know which also has a very bad reputation; I never saw anything as blatant as rats running about that hospital, but very careless with hygiene, according to someone I know someone who worked there. The rats had access to the surgical waste and storerooms, behind the facade of nice shiny surfaces.
Eric Worrall
My experiences were good, apart from one, I was getting numbness in my arms and chest and went to the emergency centre, when I was put in a room, they put a drip of glucose in me, but the drip rack was broken and wouldn’t stay up, the nurse left it but as it was so low the glucose didn’t flow, it was over a hour later that I realised that the bottle was still full, another nurse used a plastic clip to force the rack up 😐
but I agree that some hospitals are bad, those types of hospitals come up in the news every now and then, from poor hygiene to broken equipment, or millions wasted on useless things.
How can you call the Christmas party at the managers private mansion “useless”?
I’ll guess that UK hospitals are not required to spend millions on “gender intersectionality”; they have to do that in Canada. Meanwhile we wait years to see a specialist and as we all know, just about any of today’s maladies require a specialist! Ah, isn’t socialism grand?
Cheers,
Speed
Places like Brum, and London, big inner city hospitals stuck for space, and overwhelmed by those in society who are most likely to have lifestyles the ensure the need for medical services.
Just guessing, but I’d have to think the USA has such places ?
The care quality commission would be interested, and it must be reported as they have the power to intervene. This is a patient safety and staff safety issue, the latter also falls under the health and safety executive.
if the government is unwilling to spend other than on non-medical things, you know keeping bureaucrats at the trough fat, then nothing will improve. socialised anything destroys not improves.
This from the Democrat Party leader who treats truth like a sanitary napkin. Okey dokey, then.
Don’t vote for me!!!
Well, there it is.
It’s official.
In a warming world, climate change causes pandemics such as coronavirus.
And the source of this is an opinion piece in The Washington Post by two partisan Democrats.
That’s good enough for Elizabeth Warren notwithstanding that the WHO rates 2019-nCoV as ‘serious’ in China but ‘moderate’ worldwide.
The patent on the Corona virus is owned by a company owned by Bill Gates. Some have rumored Bill want’s about half of us …. to serve a higher cause. Save the World stuff.
You’ve got your anti-vax tinfoil hat on too tightly Big Al. Step away from the conspiracy websites, they’re not good for your mental health.
That patent (owned by a company called Pirbright) is related to a form of coronavirus that could potentially be used as a vaccine to prevent diseases in birds and other animals – not the form that came from Wuhan China and infected humans. Pirbright scientists do not currently work on any human contractible coronaviruses. Bill Gates does not own Pirbright, though the Gates foundation has made donations to it, as it has many other organizations involved in researching cures for diseases.
Cockroaches you can find everywhere, in heating wells of factories, office buildings, if these are not the newest one, short everywhere, under tiles in canteen kitchen….
We had some mice in our office building. They’re very agile at getting into tiny spaces. Haven’t seen any rats or cockroaches, but apparently Boston is having a grand old time trying to keep their rats under control…
People really don’t understand that once you start seeing rodents you already have a massive infestation problem. Mice and rats are very good at occupying the same space as humans without being seen.
There are too many people who want to really harm us!
They come under the Evil category.
The UN has brain washed our local governments with their sustainable development garbage..
New England has been controlled by the Death Cult too long..
We have the highest energy costs in the country on top of stealing land in the name of Conservation.. all kinds of different named NGO.s who work for the UN to bring about Agenda 2030
From the article: “On the global stage, his decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement demonstrates reckless denial about the role of climate change in fueling epidemics.”
What *is* the role of climate change in fueling epidemics? Elizabeth failed to tell us that. Maybe because it’s a ridiculous claim and she doesn’t have an explanation.
Elizabeth, first you need to establish that humans are causing climate change, and then you need to connect that change to epidemics. You have more homework to do.
Apparently, if the world were 0.6C cooler, all viruses and bacteria would die.
First you need to establish that climate change (aka: Global Warming) is catastrophic.
Then you need to establish that the 5% human contribution of CO2 into the atmosphere has any affect.
Then you need to establish that if we reduce our contribution of CO2 it will cool the atmosphere, AND restore our pristine and perfect weather that we once had.
“Then you need to establish that the 5% human contribution of CO2 into the atmosphere has any
affecteffect.”I did pause when I wrote “affect” and changed it to “effect”. I should have looked it up to be sure ;/
“Careless speech or writing is a sign of an untidy mind.”
Sure, and since ‘careless’ & ‘untidy’ are synonyms, untidy speech is a sign of a careless mind. And without the flair, careless speech is a sign of a careless mind.
Or to put it bluntly (and without flair) “Greg, signs indicate you possess a careless and untidy mind (redundancy intended).
Not really Don; I just couldn’t spell to save my life.
I can never remember if it’s an “e” or an “a” or “i”. English words use vowels almost randomly.
Greg,
sorry … my reply was intended for DJ below.
I was saying, if you buy into DJ’s logic below, that repeatedly correcting someones blog spelling or grammar is the same as insulting them by calling attention to their careless mentality … an affliction which you obviously don’t have.
Jeff, you should seek treatment for your obsessive compulsive grammar Nazi disorder. While there’s yet to be a full cure, there is medication that can greatly help manage the disease.
I will grant that blog commenting doesn’t have the same significance as a legal brief, but words have meanings and those meanings matter. Careless speech or writing is a sign of an untidy mind.
If this was a formal setting, sure. It isn’t. This is an informal setting where you have people from all walks of life, some not native English speakers, some with no training in typing, some dashing out comments on their phones where it’s easy to touch the wrong letter on a tiny screen, some whose devices autocorrect feature is better called “autocorrupt”, etc. Typos happen. As long as you understand what is meant (and lets be clear here, everyone who read the post in question understood what the point being made was), getting bent out of shape over a typo is ridiculous. and getting bent out of shape in post after post after post like Jeff does is just plain annoying for everyone else in the thread.
Since I already inserted myself into this, I don’t take what Jeff does as rude, or an indication of being being bent out of shape.
It’s just what he does, sometimes I appreciate it and sometimes I just pass over it (like most people do with what I write).
I generally like your posts too, John.
Well, climate alarm-ism is an affectation.
And your point is Greg, we have never had “pristine and perfect weather”.
Stupid people.
Make that 3% to 4%, not 5%.
Angry mother-in-law types don’t need no stinkin’ data.
I hope she gets the DNC call as I want to laugh my @ss off again when Bernie endorses her 10 minutes later.
I don’t think Bernie would get paid as well this time … lizzie’s got scruples … lots of em. She uses em all the time.
“Hey hon, I’m gonna get me a scruple … you want one too?”
“nuhn”
(Now that I think about it, Bernie & Hillary quid pro quoed the hell out of each other with tax deductible donation monies; somebody should tell adam shiff)
“…….(in the UK) you don’t have the option of attending only well-run hospitals….”
Actually, you do. For Accident and Emergency you will, of course, be taken to the nearest suitable place, but for elective treatment you can choose which hospital you go to. Most cases will pick a local hospital, but you may have special reasons for going to one out of your area. And there might be a special treatment or surgery only available at a few hospitals – in which case you might go quite a long way away….
Just because you can pick different ones does not mean they are well run, and hospital admins, and in England a government agency, lie about many items reported that allow citizens to pick a well run hospital. It is as if there is a deeply ingrained culture of lying among the last 50 years worth of the west’s college educated “elites”, quite pervasive.
Warren: Never let a crisis go to waste!
Warren: Never let one crisis languish while another takes off!
Everything Warren spoke of was caused by immigration born illnesses brought into America and that DDT was outlawed.
Seriously, drugs abuses have nothing to do with climate – other than the scare tactics that the Earth’s population is going to die and people that believe it looking for a chemical way out – but have roots in how the Economic Fascism In America has taxation through regulations, permits, licensing, fees, codes, wage control, workers unions, and fines for noncompliance created by intergovernmental departments and agencies that make these controls that effect every aspect of our lives and has increased our Cost of Living. The pressure this puts on people psychologically is a motivator to find an escape that numbs the senses from life. We can throw in the Alarmists predictions of impending doom causing mass hysteria where people don’t see any point of making their lives better when it’s just going to all end in their near future. When you lose hope you look for a messiah that provides a pathway out. The problem with ignorance is people don’t know they’re ignorant. The Socialist Party aka the defunct Democratic Party are whom primarily created these problems because they’re masters of emotional manipulation of the ignorant masses that through Institutions of Indoctrination and Leftists Media control their population by hiding the truth and facts from them…that buys their vote as they turn to Government for salvation.
Mike hits floor, slow clap.
Alas, the rhetoric stream will become ever more absurd. They are desperate to keep the narrative alive, so as they panic, the claims become crazier and crazier.
The reason we have insane asylums in civilized society is to deal with lunacy like this. Society would be all the better if we lock these ranting lunatics away.
Sobering thought- these ranting lunatics are putting their hats in the ring to be the candidate for President of the United States-the most powerful mainstream political position on the planet. Think about it.
1 – The reason I call myself commie is that I am much better off with Canadian medicare than I would be south of the border having to contend with a death panel HMO.
2 – If you want to stop the spread of communicable diseases from foreign countries, the obvious solution is to close the borders tight. It’s so simple. The problem with the Democrats is they think the whole world should be able to invade the United States no matter what.
Obviously, dieing while waiting for an appointment is so much better than dieing because your disease isn’t covered by your HMO.
That’s one of those things you really have to quantify. It’s easy to find anecdotes both ways.
On the other hand, the number of Canadians going south for medical treatment vastly exceeds the number of Americans going north.
True. My more wealthy friends have gone to the ‘States for treatment. They can buy faster, better, health care than is available in Canada. I can’t afford that kind of care. Ergo, I’m better off in Canada.
People would go north to get free health care if they could. The provincial and federal governments bend over backward to ensure that only bona fide Canadian residents can take advantage of medicare.
If you’re looking for evidence to lambaste Canadian health care, the metric is probably wait times. Canadians spend a lot of time agonizing about wait times for elective procedures. Politicians ignore wait times at their peril.
On the other hand, if you’re suffering from something acute like uncontrollable blood loss, or a heart attack, you will get the treatment needed to keep you alive in a very timely manner.
There is no such thing as free medical care.
There is only medical care that is paid for by someone else.
That works fine until you run out of other people’s money.
There’s no such thing as a free army.
There’s no such thing as a free fire department.
There’s no such thing as a free police department.
There’s no such thing as free sewers
etc.
Open borders and government controlled healthcare, two legs under the stool leftsts want to force people to stand on. Anyone want to name the other leg?
I see that the Democrats are still struggling to raise the average IQ of their senators above that of a daffodil. No disrespect to the daffodils of course.
Of course Elizabeth Warren will know all about pandemics because so many of her native American forebears died from imported Old-World infections/sarc
Approx. number of such forebears 0.
Epidemics and plagues were far worse during the cold, miserable time in the depths of the Little Ice Age. So Warren doesn’t know history as well as not knowing science. And during those terrible times the church did the worst thing it could do – gather the people in crowds and processions so that cross contamination was rife. Democrat conventions and global warming meetings anyone?
It occurs to me that ever since the Montreal Protocol (1987) we have seen an explosion of parasites feasting on mankind.
These detestable creatures have lived large for 32 years since the proposition of ‘human caused climate change’ and there seems no known cure for these bloodsuckers.
Anyone who thinks the answer is more of these parasites as a cure for ‘global warming’ clearly hasn’t been paying attention.
Bloomberg has been going on and on about how expensive health care is and how he has a plan to fix it.
I thought fixing health care was what ObamaCare was supposed to do. Do mean the billions spent and all the freedoms lost, were for nothing?
“I thought fixing health care was what ObamaCare was supposed to do”
Passing health care provision to the US medical insurance industry is in the OED as the definition of Moronic…
Drear Pocahontas,
Uh …. with all the other stuff you’ve dreamed up that “We the People” (those of who actually work and pay taxes) would have to pay for, what would we have left to “invest”? A pound of flesh? That’d hardly be “vegan”.
(And a pound of flesh would make AOC a bit cross.)
Whenever I see a politician say ‘invest’ I switch off for the rest of it.
I would think that the Democrat support for an “open border” policy would be more of a hindrance in a fight against disease outbreaks.
Name one bad thing, just one, that has not be blamed on climate change? If every bad thing is caused by climate change, how is that different than saying “God did it” about everything? And how is paying extra taxes to fix climate change different than religious tithing or simony?
If it weren’t for the climate change induced fog, that basketball player would not have died in the Helicopter wreck. (#notme).
At the beginning of the industrial age, obviously when we first started changing the climate, the Titanic crashed into an iceberg that should not have been there.
Without climate change we would have had a larger window of opportunity for space shuttle launches and would not have had to hurry past the o-ring concerns/inspections & we wouldn’t be supporting the nasty russian space program.
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If Fauxahontas could she would have you droned for making that statement, as is she may have you swatted.
Warren is unsafe to elect. She is an unqualified fool and I am very glad I am not an American with the possibility she is on my ballot. It actually takes time to identify new diseases, especially when it emerges over winter when people are more sick anyway. My observation is that China does seem to be trying to tackle it and the US is also along with most other countries. International travel is a hindrance rather than a help on controls.
Mmm
Mmmm? A conundrum = which should be more feared? A quailified fool or an unqualifed fool?
cheers edi
Yes, it is confirmed. A return to filth, hungar and death by disease is the end goal of the progressives. I assume she will be hiring witch doctors to perform chants over ebola patients plus a group of gypsy wagons to sell tonic. That will make the cost of Medicare for all really cheap. Did she forget to mention this was her “Plan” all along?????
Public hospitals in UK would run very well indeed without the patients:
One of my favourite episodes.