From: ahk@chinet.com
rcp27g@gmail.com wrote:
>On Friday, 24 April 2015 15:25:08 UTC+2, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>>Charles Ellson wrote:
>>>just as with having a car accident involving more than your own
>>>vehicle you become a liability upon others.
>>That's not analogous and you know it. Driving a motorized vehicle upon
>>a public highway imposes risk to other people, because as a society, we
>>take no steps to prevent people from driving without giving a shit about
>>the safety of those they share the right of way with.
>The nature of infectious diseases is such that a person going about
>their business with an untreated infectious disease is a significant
>health risk to people around them. . . .
And your analogies just suck more and more.
As the recent measles outbreak at Disneyland demonstrated, Mexicans have
high enough vaccination rates that they've achieved herd immunity and
there was NOT outbreak due to Mexican vacationers returning home, whereas
upper middle class morons who fell into the "vaccinations are harmful"
belief system were responsible for spreading the disease.
Measles is the most infectious disease known to mankind because it
lingers in the environment for hours after the infected patient has
left the vicinity.
Mandatory health coverage in the United States, like Medicare, has nothing
to do with preventing the spread of infectious disease. Vaccinating the
elderly doesn't do anything because they tend not to be patient zero with
regard to the most infectious diseases. It's children. And our society
isn't even enforcing mandatory vaccination laws with respect to the most
basic vaccinations.
Obamacare is largely about a mechanism to get hospital bills paid, not
about preventing the spread of infection and would be a lousy way to
achieve that.
Too bad we don't have a health care program to prevent the spread of
stupid analogies.
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