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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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.
Lefty immigration recklessness is a likely factor. A number of cities in Canada are dealing with bed bugs in apartment buildings, a bug I’ve never seen in 80+ yrs here. It’s politically incorrect to require quarantining these days and fumigation of belongings.
UK and the EU must have hundreds of times the infestation of parasitic pests, and overloading of social and sanitation services that favors rats and other such than Canada has. I’m sure budget/capita has swooned in these open-door countries.
We just let a plane load in Toronto of Canadian Chinese just returning on their say-so that they had not been in Wuhan. Taxi- drivers have been refusing Chinese customers at the airport – they may be liable for this if there are complaints!
Does Poky Warren not understand that this all happened on the neoleft’s watch.
Bedbugs are becoming a massive problem throughout the developed world, it is being fueled by tourism to developing world locations AND illegal alien traffic. Adding to it is the years long and systematic attack on insecticide products available to the public and an ongoing smear campaign against their use by claims they harm the environment. A multi-vectored and well executed attack against western society by people within western society’s governments, academia and media. Took 40 odd years, it is now bearing a bitter fruit.
I keep hearing about this. However, I have travelled pretty extensively in developed and developing countries, and the only time I’ve ever come across bedbugs is in very cheap Indian hotels, and that was 35 years ago (I’ve become more wealthy, so don’t stay in cheap hotels much nowadays).
Is this epidemic possibly mainly in the USA? This is a genuine question, not a snark.
From articles I have read at bbc, Daily Mail, AFP and even cnninternational, incidence of bedbugs have been on the increase for several years, not just in US. Taken that bedbugs infesting upholstery in hotel furniture, airliners, taxis and rental vehicles can spread to many people before the sources can be identified the little bastiches are damned hard to stop. Same for lice. Given the environmentalist opposition to use of any insecticides or pesticides I am amzed the problems are not worse than they are.
Oh, and yes, I do know several people who have returned from warm region vacations and found upon getting home they had picked up bedbugs along the way. Did they get them at their destinations? Pick them up during travel? It is damned hard to say. All they know is when they left western Pennsylvania they did not have bedbugs, when they returned they did.
If Warren was worried about disease prevention, she would go away. She makes me sick.
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How can anyone be dumb enough to accept this mental slop from a leader.
Never, never underestimate the stupidity of some American voters. And the percentage of such is increasing with time.
“I’m not saying private health is perfect, but the big problem with government public health is lack of choice.”
As a former UK resident, NI payer, taxpayer and private health insurance payer (BUPA) I can say with confidence, assuming the overall system has not changed since, private health patients usually get treated in NHS hospitals ahead of NHS patients before going to a private hospital after referral. I know from personal experience this was true in the late 80’s early 90’s. Along with changes made to the NHS by various Govn’ts, more funding is consumed by managers than nurses, doctors, canteen and cleaning staff.
Scrapping Paris means more money can be directed towards public health instead of meaningless GHG reductions.
Win-win.
Seems like lefties don’t worry about how much money is available, nor for that matter, do many righties in government.
The out break originated in China; and by the Paris Agreement China can increase emissions until 2030 while they and all other “undeveloped” countries get payments from “developed” countries of which they were counting on the US for much of it.
By the US dropping out, global emissions will not change; only the flow of dollars.
The US already sends massive amounts around the world to combat disease.
What is the logic of Warren’s statement?
1. Socioeconomic factors play a major role in health. Singapore had less illness than neighbours Malaysia and Indonesia with same climate.
2. Most developed cities have more deaths in winter than summer. Here in Melbourne temperature related deaths is 13 times more for winter than summer.
3. Summer deaths appear to be easier to eradicate as a nation developed. In the early 1900s Melbourne heat deaths dominated but by 1950s they were even with cold now cold related deaths dominate.
There’s a reason why winter is flu season, not summer.
Healthcare runs 17% of US GDP, so any hopeful who pushes the idea of socialised medicine there is blowing smoke, period.
Looking ahead, I have to think that Bernies pump wont hold out when the going gets tougher, and Biden is a non starter, soooo Lizzie is entirely likely to be the runner later this year assuming the DNC dont insert a late entry.
Load up with popcorn and a big spoon, the 2020 election is likely to be some of the funniest stuff since the Marx bros were making films 🙂
“Healthcare runs 17% of US GDP, so any hopeful who pushes the idea of socialised medicine there is blowing smoke, period.”
Tired of this.. Federal per capita expenditure alone on health programs in equalised cost units exceeds what we pay in the UK for a comprehensive system. That’s before we include personal and employment related plans and policies… Stop worrying about the “evils of socialised medicine” and ask your elected representatives how it is that you’ve paid more than enough tax for a comprehensive system but you don’t have one…..
I’m actually a brit in the UK, so I agree with what you say. I’m just pointing out that healthcare is such a large chunk of the US economy that any politician who proposes upending it is likely being disingenuous in the extremus.
The reason they dont have any sensible healthcare regime dates back to the war years, and the bribe of company healthcare that lured workers into war production. Kaiser and their shipyards being one of the big players then who subsequently stayed a big player in healthcare into the present day. The famous quote of Bevan’s here, that he would fill the doctors mouths with gold in order to get them to accept the NHS, is entirely irrelevant in the US today simply because the medical industry has more gold than it could eat in several lifetimes. So nothing short of the world being turned upside down is going to change that, certainly not the efforts of a millionaire socialist, nor a second rate university lecturer and pretend native.
From a political angle, any US politician who suggests as the top tier of Dem contenders now do, that healthcare should be free at the point of delivery will no doubt attract the votes of kids who have just started out, but conversely lose the votes of the many more who have been paying incredible amounts for health coverage for many years. In that respect its like all the headline policy’s being touted by these clowns who dont seem to realise that gaining rather than losing votes is the way to win an election 🙂
A viewing of “Weekend At Bernie’s” is in order now, if only for comparative value as to whether the movie is more comedic than the actual socialist democratic campaign field! The epitome of the ‘walking dead’, Bernie Sanders has more drawing power among the young and gullible than the rest of the apparent pack at the moment. What, or who, is propping him up is the question.
Meanwhile, the stealth campaign of billionaire NY socialist Michael Bloomberg is slowly gaining traction in public perception and the polls. Like the rest of the exceedingly wealthy socialist democrat1st string candidates, they are all ‘for the little
manperson, the poor, and the disadvantaged’.And the Brooklyn Bridge is available – Buy now! More popcorn and amber liquids, please!
You eat popcorn with a spoon? I’ve never tried, or even seen that…
Elizabeth Warren aka ‘Fauxcahontas’ is a virulent expression of the deadly disease known as socialism. She has a plan to address every crisis du jour and each requires spending enormous amounts of other peoples money.
“In 2015 the state of Indiana experienced an outbreak of HIV stemming from the ongoing opioid epidemic.”
Confused.. the current US issues generally relate to pills and patches. HIV drug related transmission generally relates to Needle sharing and prostitution… In any case public health protection in these cases relates not to “Climate Change” but to the negative political impact of being seen doing nice things for junkies…
Also the NHS forced another “country” to arrest (but if you can order another entity to arrest anyone, that proves it isn’t a country, right? which proves the UE is a fraud that pretends to not be a super state) for daring to seek better healthcare outside UK, so there is that.
There are numerous cases that can only be described as kidnapping of alleged by the NHS. The left is not ignorant but actually fine with that, like the left was fine with knowing about Soviet Union, and then made up that crazy lie that they never knew what happened there. Soviet Union in general was VERY open (unlike military/secret towns). Soviet Union was a show boating state so you have to be open to show stuff (even if made up and lies).
I don’t know how young people understand that it was very open for foreigners and how easy it was to know what was happening.
The failure of pest control in NHS hospitals is due to the private companies that have been sub-contracted to prevent infestations.
If it isn’t working they should be re-nationalised.
Are they using pyrethrins and desiccants? If not they are wasting tax money and their own time, except for that hourly wage they are receiving for going through the motions.
Whether the contracts are prescriptive or performance based, it sounds like someone on the NHS side isn’t enforcing them. The private companies can only get away with whatever their minders allow.
I’m in hospital a lot, infact I’m in now while writing this and have never seen rodents or bugs in any part of the hospital not even litter. Few years back my wife Hemorrhaged on holiday in Florida, the hospital was top in that part of the state sparkling and like a mall but when she was getting ready for surgery we were shocked it was a facade. Unfinished walls near theatre and clutter everywhere. Once in the treatment room before surgery the lady surgeon walked in and told us how she was missing her sons football game and how long it took to get here (wife lost half her blood before surgery). So then after surgery we was in 48 hrs and sent out with no blood transfusion and a fit too fly letter?. And the cost around 100k for a macdonalds type service a d made us realize that the NHS is a God send even with its faults.
Warren should read articles like “Coronavirus panic? The influenza pandemic was far worse (for now)” to remind her of American history and put the current situation into context. (see Washington Examiner Jan 29)
Next up, eating apples will save killer whales. Has as much basis in reality as Warren’s comment.
Lizzy might want to check out San Fran’s Disco and other CA toilets.
Even if it were true that modest warming had been shown to fuel epidemics (it hasn’t), Warren’s criticism is non-sensical. The tiny anthropogenic warming effect from CO2 concentrations does not *care* whether a country gives lip service to expensive and ineffective virtue-signaling agreements, it only cares about actual emissions. The US has *reduced* its emissions thanks to (private sector driven) natural gas displacing coal electricity generation, by a greater extent than other industrial nations complaining about Trump. Even in an alternate reality where CAGW actually exists and there really is a “climate crisis”, America should be praised and China condemned.
A friend of mine has private medical insurance. She’s been waiting ages for an operation she needs. How come? Surely the whole point of going private is to jump to the head of the queue. (Of course if we all went private we’ll all be in te same queue!) The reason that she’s had to wait for ages is that her private medical provider signed a contract with the NHS. So the NHS patients are getting their operations faster than the private patients. How ironic is that?
Meanwhile my wife, who is suffering from incurable secondary cancer, is getting excellent treatment at the NHS. Not sure if private health insurance covers that.
And in all the times I’ve been visiting NHS hospitals over the last six years I haven’t seen any rats. Not once. Nor heard any stories about rats. But then I live in Scotland so maybe the rats are kept firmly on the other side of Hadrian’s Wall. It kept the Romans out of Scotland so now it’s maybe keeping the rats out.
Your observations seem spot on. Generally, private insurance doesn’t want to know about chronic conditions, its more tailored towards the corporate crowd as a job perk, and handy to deal with the results of skiing accidents and such.
My local NHS hospital has a tie up with a private place a few miles away, that means they deal with a few NHS patients in return for access to the scanners and other expensive equipment in the NHS hospital.
Oh, and yes, a visit to the private clinic reveals the same names of Doctors as seen in the NHS hospital 🙂
I think buying private insurance in GB/Canada is like buying a ‘pig in a poke’
January is usually the coldest month of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, which is when the Corona virus started infecting people in central China. So if the United States had stayed in the Paris agreement, which didn’t require China to do anything about CO2 emissions, how would that have affected the spread of the Corona virus? If the climate would have been 0.001 C colder if the United States had reduced its CO2 emissions over the past two years, how would that have affected the Corona virus?
But “Doctor” Liz Warren’s Rx for every disease is to throw ice at it. It might help reduce the swelling of a sprained ankle, but it doesn’t work against viruses. That will only cost a trillion dollars, give or take a few hundred billion.
Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one can do nothing.
S. Freud
I suppose politicians are counting on this every day with no penalties or consequences. Reason is a tactic of the pitiful.
Climate change – is there anything it CAN’T do?
I thought disease prevention included washing your hands regularly, getting all your shots, and practicing good health guidelines like eating well, getting enough sleep, and avoiding Africa and China. lol
That was old school before AIDS.
It’s an outlandish claim given that when Obama signed the Paris Accord he diverted more than half a $billion from the US’ global pandemic fund as a contribution to help the poor nations in that accord.
Eric, you really don’t know what you’re talking about.
“Because the incompetent and corrupt managers running the roach motels are unionised government employees; almost impossible to fire.”
Every medical health institute has to decide how much money they will spend on their basic duties – and how much on cleaning work.
As has every industry – from primary food production to restaurants.
Ever worked in / with an automated warehouse:
https://www.google.com/search?q=pests+in+automated+warehouses&oq=pests+in+automated+warehouses&aqs=chrome.
Same in Air travel business, railways, public bus transports ….
Does this remind you of something :
https://www.google.com/search?q=cleaning+woman+images&oq=cleaning+woman&aqs=chrome.