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That headline from The Hill seems a bit disingenuous. The full quote was: > “I do think that a system that allows billionaires to exist when there are parts of
by ashtonbaker 8y ago
That headline from The Hill seems a bit disingenuous. The full quote was:
> “I do think that a system that allows billionaires to exist when there are parts of Alabama where people are still getting ringworm because they don’t have access to public health is wrong”
And also:
> “It’s not to say someone like Bill Gates or Warren Buffet are immoral people,” she said. “I don’t believe that.”
Both of which seem basically in agreement with Fred's response to the quote.
- kylestlb 8y agoYeah. Author claims AOC/followers are ignorant yet falls into the clickbait headline trap. Yikes.
- refurb 8y agoRingworm is an odd disease to pick out. It's not a parasite, it's a fungal infection of the skin and quite common. Even if people have access to quality healthcare, they can still get ringworm. And in fact, you can self-treat with over the counter anti-fungals. I think the author of that quote doesn't know what ringworm is.
- helen___keller 8y agoCorrect, "(Also, for what it’s worth - I meant to say hookworm*)": https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1087884746129108993 https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1087884746129108993
- ahallock 8y agoYou are 100% correct. I remember wrestlers getting it in high school and it was easily treatable.
- rco8786 8y agoAOC corrected later that she misspoke, meant to say hookworm.
- smileysteve 8y agoHookworm, on the other hand isn't. Hookworm is attributable to a government (and its people) failing its people -- not disparate from Flint's water crisis. Basic sewage (septic in most cases) maintenance not being performed. Unfortunately, the primary solution, condemning the buildings on these lands, could be seen as forcing people off of their land and hurting generational wealth growth -- even though for the underwater mortgage amounts and considering the land should be condemned -- and competing mortgages/rents to cities with sewer systems would be less...
- refurb 8y agoReading the article, this is happening in areas of septic tanks, not gov’t provided waste treatment. In addition, they are building on flood prone land where septic tanks don’t work. Seems more like somebody screwed up when they built a community versus some epidemic due to poor healthcare.