It seems the plague, otherwise known as the black death, is making a comeback and in the most unlikely of places, the US of A and in the western states. There is a correlation with the rate of new arrivals and that is not to say that people are carriers but after the ebola scare we don't need this one. Want to avoid this one, I suggest you go to someplace very hot or very cold, which means I don't have to move

Black Death: The Bubonic Plague is back, four dead (http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/cdc-monitoring-upswing-in-number-of-bubonic-plague-cases-deaths/story-fn5fsgyc-1227507332906)

Of all the epidemics in history this one has the scariest reputation but fortunately we have moved on in personal hygene since those days but we do have one unfortunate traint, we like to live with pets and something else likes to live with our pets, the flea

Which is forgetting the fact that it is a bacterial infection that is treatable with Antibiotics. Given that there hasn't been many, and there is still more cases of deadlier infectious diseases out there in the USA, it isn't unusual or unexpected that the doctors aren't sure how to treat the disease or how it presents. As well as medical insurance/medicaid/obama care/private medical is usually a HUGE excuse for these people to NOT seek medical help, it isn't surprising that that are deaths.

This is fear mongering. This is keeping people afraid for any and all reasons. This is the typical media glorification of a public interest story that, instead of saying look at how good science is that we're managing a grim specter from the past, is trying to convince us how incredibly screwed we are. We're not. This is a non-issue.

So, Clete, what are you REALLY trying to get at here? Obama Care?

Yeah Clete "Where's the Beef"? Speaking of OB'care, I just had my co-pay go up 45% on a prescription.

No I'm waiting for the next "war" to be declared. As to beef is that corn fed or grass fed? Yes it will be interesting to see how Obamacare handles an epidemic on home ground

No I'm waiting for the next "war" to be declared. As to beef is that corn fed or grass fed? Yes it will be interesting to see how Obamacare handles an epidemic on home ground
Obama would think its appropriate to try to tax it into submission... then blame Bush if that didn't work.

I was just thinking Ebola was handled by evacuating cases in US citizens to the US, bringing the disease home with the victim, but in this case it is already home meaning a shorter flight to CDC and no emotional outcry, but one Ebola case in the US was the source of a public outcry, how come more cases of the "Black Death" hasn't raised a ripple. I'm also wondering when the first case will step off the plane here

Black death can be treated, dead blacks can't?

Oh there was more than one ebola case dragged back here and yes there was a significant outcry.

Obama feels it wasn't fair the USA didn't have its share of serious diseases running rampant in the population...so he does his best to import some.

HA HA! Not a great comparison, no provision for dead blacks in Obamacare, but I thought you guys considered Obama a serious disease

how come more cases of the "Black Death" hasn't raised a ripple.

Because it isn't a few weeks before an election.

Indeed wait to sensationalise it later

No I'm waiting for the next "war" to be declared. As to beef is that corn fed or grass fed? Yes it will be interesting to see how Obamacare handles an epidemic on home ground

There isn't going to be an epidemic. It is an easily manageable disease.

I'm sure you are going to see the resurgence of many diseases in 'Sanctuary Cities'.

Fear mongering at its finest. As if we don't already have enough to worry about.

Fear mongering at its finest. As if we don't already have enough to worry about.

Only 4 days left to clean the grills for Labor Day Weekend!

Fear mongering at its finest. As if we don't already have enough to worry about.

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Yup, over a 42 year span.

I found out the real reason ..... it rained in the desert. No kidding ... they are blaming it on global warming.


Yup, over a 42 year span.

The region for the most recent cases are the same .... only one east coast case (in Georgia) .

Like I said at the start a correlation with tehe flow of illegals, close the border and you solve the problem

They have been flowing here for centuries Clete, from the south, and everywhere else for that matter. Can't we just give out antibiotics and shots as needed? Why panic over a few case?

They have been flowing here for centuries Clete, from the south, and everywhere else for that matter. Can't we just give out antibiotics and shots as needed? Why panic over a few case?
back in the rational ole days, immigrants were screened for disease ,at places like Ellis Island ,before admission.

back in the rational ole days, immigrants were screened for disease ,at places like Ellis Island ,before admission.

And they weren't sneaking across the border illegally either... not those ones anyway.

Why panic over a few cases?

I don't doubt they said that about Ebola. It is not a panic to discuss an issue, Look I know influenza kills more people despite mass innoculations but there is an active program to contain influenza where as this is something that every few hundred years becomes a major problem and the population has no immunity. What protects the population is more that infected cases die quickly than it is that anyone pays attention to it on an iradication basis

And they weren't sneaking across the border illegally either... not those ones anyway.
Yes and at Ellis island, the immigrants were Brits, Irish and Scottish. Children were separated from their parents and sent into servitude or sent back on the next boat out if they didn't have the proper paperwork, or could write properly. That was all misguided travesty. Those people were promised safe passage and 80 percent never got it once they arrived.

There was a famine in Ireland for chrissake and you were to be the best country for their salvation. Well, it was not.

I don't doubt they said that about Ebola. It is not a panic to discuss an issue, Look I know influenza kills more people despite mass innoculations but there is an active program to contain influenza where as this is something that every few hundred years becomes a major problem and the population has no immunity. What protects the population is more that infected cases die quickly than it is that anyone pays attention to it on an iradication basis

Para can you ever write something that is good news. We have much better immunities now. Better hygiene. Better ways of coping. We don't have disease and filth running in our streets, nor do we have a flea population that devastated Europe because we don't actually sleeps with our livestock any more.

Can you get off yr gloom and doom soap box !

Hey, I don't run the news cycle. You say you don't want bad news, well I suggest you get off the bus because there aren't many good news stories unless you count the Pope offering forgiveness for abortion for a limited time. I notice our out spoken abortion abolitionists avoided that one. There is no reason we cannot discuss something. Okay you say we have better hygene, etc, so all the more reason we should ask, how come so many cases are recorded in a particular region? And I make no apology for asking the question.

I am still stuck on how this is even an issue.

I have had bowel movements that are more important then this crap.

Yes and at Ellis island, the immigrants were Brits, Irish and Scottish. Children were separated from their parents and sent into servitude or sent back on the next boat out if they didn't have the proper paperwork, or could write properly. That was all misguided travesty. Those people were promised safe passage and 80 percent never got it once they arrived.

There was a famine in Ireland for chrissake and you were to be the best country for their salvation. Well, it was not.
Not quite , The Northern Europe migration occurred in the mid 19th century ...and yes it was less controlled subject to the abuses you mention. By the early 20th century between 1905 and 1914, an average of one million immigrants per year arrived in the US. Two-thirds of those individuals emigrated from eastern, southern and central Europe.

The policy was that immigrants had to be healthy and MUST have some money because the government did not want immigrants who were going to be dependents on the state . Usually they needed around $25 bucks . Ellis Island was used as a hospital for people who could recover . But about 2% were denied admission for various reasons.

After 1924 ,immigration was restricted and most processing occurred over seas .

It really doesn't matter where immigrants come from. There should be a rational screening system that does NOT award people who violate the admission requirements . I work with many natives of India . They follow the rules for themselves and their families that follow them. I often joke and ask them why are they going through so much trouble ? Why not just get a plane ticket to Mexico city ?

Yes we all have those but it is an issue to someone otherwise it wouldn't get airplay. It is newsworthy only because of recent deaths and not so recent epidemics

I think it rates higher than a bowel movement. Also I see it has 28 responses and that is certainly higher than a daily movement. Just my take.

Yes I thought it was worth a mention even if only to keep a count on pestilence

Yes and at Ellis island, the immigrants were Brits, Irish and Scottish. Children were separated from their parents and sent into servitude or sent back on the next boat out if they didn't have the proper paperwork, or could write properly. That was all misguided travesty. Those people were promised safe passage and 80 percent never got it once they arrived.

There was a famine in Ireland for chrissake and you were to be the best country for their salvation. Well, it was not.

My Grandfather came here due to that famine. He managed before he died even though he was never rich...

Perhaps we should have sent them to Canada instead.

A d the point of going to Canada and missing out on the land of opportunity?

I think it rates higher than a bowel movement. Also I see it has 28 responses and that is certainly higher than a daily movement. Just my take.

The important question is why not what. It is fear mongering with no shame. Instead of reporting important news, this drivel is what is coming out.

This should be background noise.


A d the point of going to Canada and missing out on the land of opportunity?

Poutine. Seriously.

Yawn. 😴

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A d the point of going to Canada and missing out on the land of opportunity?

So was yours ? After cpt cook found you, England thought it was a good idea to populate Australia with convicts and Miscreants.

Canada had its share at that time of immigrants, but I dare you to find they were treated badly.


I think it rates higher than a bowel movement. Also I see it has 28 responses and that is certainly higher than a daily movement. Just my take.

Why would you be so crass as to compare it to a bowel movement?

I don't know guys, usually these issues started by para start to stink and go stale.

Canada had its share at that time of immigrants, but I dare you to find they were treated badly.

Prejudice and Discrimination - The Canadian Encyclopedia (http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/prejudice-and-discrimination/)

Craven Said:
I am still stuck on how this is even an issue.
I have had bowel movements that are more important then this crap.



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I think it rates higher than a bowel movement. Also I see it has 28 responses and that is certainly higher than a daily movement. Just my take.

Sorry I don't know how to post so that all the credits are given to whomever stated them

Tickle Said to Me:
Why would you be so crass as to compare it to a bowel movement?
I don't know guys, usually these issues started by para start to stink and go stale.

Just to set the record straight I did not start "The Bowel Movement" comment, it was mentioned by CRAVEN. I was just trying to upgrade the Plague to something higher than their bowel movement. It seems like everyone is not entitled to an opinion on here, if it does not meet certain peoples standards. Tickle maybe you should read before you jump on people.

So was yours ? After cpt cook found you, England thought it was a good idea to populate Australia with convicts and Miscreants.

Canada had its share at that time of immigrants, but I dare you to find they were treated badly..

So to answer my question which was what was to be gained by Smoothies family being migrants to Canada over being migrants to the US? The point was they would not have been treated badly. Cpt Cook didn't find us because we weren't missing. the continent of Australia had been known for centuries. I know the point of being a migrant to Australia although my family came from Ireland long ago as free settlers, not guests of the English king. Australia was populated by free people, no slaves, no slave owners and definitely not miscreants

Prejudice and Discrimination - The Canadian Encyclopedia (http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/prejudice-and-discrimination/)

You must have searched long and hard for that gem, Tal. Early settlement in the 1700s and Immigration within the last 150 years are not the same thing.

Tickle Said to Me:
Why would you be so crass as to compare it to a bowel movement?
I don't know guys, usually these issues started by para start to stink and go stale.



At least we can agree on this. That is a good start !

A better start would be for you to learn to read before you leap TICKLE. Ignoring what I said is not okay. I repeat, I only responded to the Bowel Movement did not start it.

A better start would be for you to learn to read before you leap TICKLE. Ignoring what I said is not okay. I repeat, I only responded to the Bowel Movement did not start it.
Yes, I got that. Catonville. I can read and don't go off half cocked. I was agreeing with you in the above post.

I Don't ignore what you say.

I guess you don't like olive branches.

This plague may not get as much national coverage as you may like, but I am sure the locals are well aware of the of danger and are dealing with it.

No Tick, it didn't take much to find the history of discrimination in Canada, and only shows Canadians are not immune to the stuff of human behavior many other nations have gone through.

Didn't mean to blow your bubble.

Didn't mean to blow your bubble.


You didn't. I am don't live under a rock.

Yes, I got that. Catonville. I can read and don't go off half cocked. I was agreeing with you in the above post.

I Don't ignore what you say.

I guess you don't like olive branches.

I read it as though YOU were calling ME CRASS, not agreeing with me. I get enough blame for what I do say and don't like blame for what I did not say or do.
Olive Branch accepted if it is still out there. Guess I am a touchy old fart.

I read it as though YOU were calling ME CRASS, not agreeing with me. I get enough blame for what I do say and don't like blame for what I did not say or do.
Olive Branch accepted if it is still out there. Guess I am a touchy old fart.

Of course I wasn't calling you crass. Yes olive branch is still here. You got it !