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>Believing the outbreak affected only their underclass, the health officials made a conscious decision not to not tell the public I love the part where homeles
by schiffern 14y ago
>Believing the outbreak affected only their underclass, the health officials made a conscious decision not to not tell the public
I love the part where homeless people aren't considered part of "the public".
- sp332 14y agoOf course they are. Homeless people were not informed either.
- schiffern 14y agoThe implication is that it's ok when homeless people get TB. An outbreak that is confined to that "underclass" should only raise alarm when it infects people that actually matter. And the number of cases isn't the metric used. Imagine if the TB outbreak only effected owners of yachts? There's certainly fewer yacht owners than there are homeless people!
- sp332 14y agoI know it sounds like class warfare but they're actually trying to prevent that. Believing the outbreak affected only their underclass, the health officials made a conscious decision not to not tell the public, repeating a decision they had made in 2008, when the same strain had appeared in an assisted living home for people with schizophrenia. “What you don’t want is for anyone to have another reason why people should turn their backs on the homeless,” said Charles Griggs, the public information officer for the Duval County Health Department. Don't know if it's true, but it's at least plausible.