Comments on: Mexican Border Plague?`

By: Prichard

Prichard — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

If you are interested in Morgellons Disease or experience Morgellons symptoms, I would like to invite you to participate in the Morgellons Disease Information Community and Message Board at morgellonsite.com

By: WOOF

WOOF — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

lock down the border, dry up the jobs and welfare, and deport the ones who ignore our laws.

Should we quarantine all Americans who are overseas, or just sieze and disenfect their property?

We can all become latex glove Amish.

By: robert108

robert108 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“Should we quarantine all Americans who are overseas, or just sieze and disenfect their property?”

I think we are talking about border hoppers here, not overseas people. More leftie change-the-subject distraction, I guess.

By: robert108

robert108 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

nobrainer: I agree with your last paragraph. As far as disease incidence is concerned, there is a time lapse in such things, and by the time the epidemic(if it happens) is upon us, the damage will be much greater than if we attend to it now. For me, it’s just another reason for us to lock down the border, dry up the jobs and welfare, and deport the ones who ignore our laws.

By: nobrainer

nobrainer — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

As I said, this was “my first reaction.”

I like to look for what the numbers don’t say. From my cursory examination, they don’t say a damn thing about how this has affected the health of American born… uh-er.. Americans. Are cases among American born Americans up, down, unchanged? If they’re unchanged or down, then the influx of disease carrying “foreign born” persons wouldn’t seem to matter much, would it? But I don’t know, because Thomas doesn’t mention it.

The CDC’s Web page says TB was in decline in the United States, but that it increased between 1985 and 1992. Nearly 15,000 cases of TB were diagnosed last year, with California reporting the largest number of cases. Although the total number of TB cases has declined in recent years, the study says the drug-resistant cases “did not significantly change over the study period,” causing concern among medical professionals.

Again, there’s no mention in Thomas’s article about just how many of those cases were of the drug-resistant variety. 1%? 5%? 50%? 99%?

I basically find it very hard to draw any significant conclusions from Thomas’s article (other than that foreign born persons in America have a higher risk of carrying certain diseases.)

And if these things are so contagious and so prevalent, not only should we not allow non-medically approved immigration, we shouldn’t let anyone of any stripe cross the border in any direction.

By: Sphagnum

Sphagnum — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ok Docdave, why are you trying to convince us that illegal immigration is bad? That’s obviuos, there are many negative consequesces. No one is seriously proposing we ignore the illegal problem, so what is your point exactly?

By: Sphagnum

Sphagnum — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

For me, it’s just another reason for us to lock down the border, dry up the jobs and welfare, and deport the ones who ignore our laws.

Woah, so you are completley anti-immigration? Close the border completely, to legals and illegals? That’s a bit extreme and “anti-immigrant”, hm?

By: robert108

robert108 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The argument has to be won, and it isn’t yet. I must say that Morgellon’s disease may be a hoax, but we just need to keep at it until the govt acts, and acts decisively.

By: nobrainer

nobrainer — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Certainly not my topic of expertise, but my first reaction is that if the vast, overwhelming majority of cases are carried by the “foreign born” — or if increases are occurring primarily in the “foreign born” community, then why should I be so worried?

By: John

John — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I came to comment on the same thing, Diane. Just a quick one liner, since the parallels are becoming so obvious. But instead, I’ll point out how the Indians made war with the Europeans once it became obvious that their nations were suffering from the invasion. If we were to learn from the Native American example, we’d probably still be speaking English 400 years from now.