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The way you worded all this kind of seems like you take pleasure in the prospect of this happening in "big LIBERAL" cities. Newsflash, not every big city is liberal. But when we are talking about things that could affect a large number of people political affiliation of the city should be irrelevant. Not everyone in that city will have that affiliation. And if they do?? It doesn't mean they "deserve" an ill fate. I find this logic rather twisted, but this taking pleasure at the expense of others seems to be all the rage among a certain political base right now.
It shows how divided we they see and divide the nation. They see its great cities that gave us our culture are merely evil and reverent only if one political party is to big in it? Then we are to worry about North Korea, China and Russia? They even write much off Europe? Even the culture ours evolve from as socialist and therefore their value is in failure too?
Many threads are troll threads as I see it. With intent to demean, denounce, divide and write-off much of this Great Nation ..... by its biggest cities first? Yet are we to believe ...... they see us as one Nation .... given their claims in these forums? Indivisible yet? I'm not sure in their minds? Seems they see no worth in much of the nation and relish the thought.... some cities will have a calamity or fiscal issues and even DISEASE HERE? As it wouldn't effect the nation as a whole?
Time will tell .... if we do not implode from division.... from within first? As so many see more the enemy is more merely political and by party affiliation and in the news media .... over a enemy in the world? If you go by some threads ...... and comments.
Everyone should just report the OP. These threads are getting tiresome.
It makes you wonder just what level of hateful ideas someone would need to post here, to get banned? There's obviously something deeply wrong inside those who repeatedly spew out this kind of venom. Over the past several months, they seem to have become more explicit and less reluctant to reveal their inner character.
When disease stems from public policy choices, of course there is political tie-in. Just take lung cancer and the debate over tobacco legislation and lawsuits in the 1990's. It was as political as any issue you can name.
My point is that diseases will happen without regard to politics.
Take California. It’s a flat out liberal state. In 2015 the liberal politicians passed a law that states personal and religious belief exemptions are no longer valid for vaccinations. Children will not be allowed in public schools without vaccinations. I’m conservative but do we really have to politicize everything?
If this is the case, I know how to stop any disease outbreak. Go to a hospital or clinic the next time there’s an outbreak and flash your voter registration card that signifies you’re a republican. That should stop the disease in its tracks.
Except the state is backing him up. State of Emergency-hepatitis.
Population density at levels too high is problematic.
“Too high”. Can you define that term, numerically? What density, to you, is the threshold crossing from acceptable to too high? And why is that the threshold?
Big international cities obviously come with a greater risk of infectious disease transmission. I'm not sure what them being "liberal" has to do with it...
It's really great that the OP is so concerned about urban populations being wiped out by disease, but the OP should perhaps be more concerned about rural areas, where there are no physicians to treat those who become ill. And many of the foreign physicians who are willing to work in rural areas won't be able to now because of the government's visa policies.
"...Small-town America relies on a steady flow of doctors from around the world to deliver babies, treat heart ailments and address its residents’ medical needs. But a recent, little-publicized decision by the government to alter the timetable for some visa applications is likely to delay the arrival of new foreign doctors, and is causing concern in the places that depend on them...
...While the Trump administration is fighting, in the courts of justice and public opinion, for its temporary travel ban affecting six countries, the slowdown in the rural doctor pipeline shows how even a small, relatively uncontroversial change can ripple throughout the country...."
Actually, there is no need for a race war among the "gun nuts". The blacks in urban liberal cesspools are dangerous enough to their own race. Why would white gun nuts want to interfere with the inevitable? Have Chicago and Baltimore combined for more than 1,000 murders this year yet? Gotta be close to that number...
Ah yes. You couldn’t resist mentioning black people could you. As usual. And if you were more honestly informed you’d know that crime in Baltimore has been declining steadily since the 90s. Try El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Mexico you want to see killing that makes Chicago like child’s play.
Instead of constantly complaining about big, liberal cities, why don't you suggest some solutions?
One trick ponies get old after a while, even at the circus.
Ain't that the truth? I read OP's threads for their amusement factor - each one is zanier than the last.
To answer the question - Will big, liberal cities have disease outbreaks that infect huge swaths of the population?
Given Trump's and the republican party's all out assault on healthcare, outbreaks of disease are not out of the question, especially when one factors in the ways global warming have encouraged pathogens to grow in number and show up in northern latitudes where they either have not appeared before or were thought to have been wiped out. Two diseases - cholera and malaria - are already starting to make an unwelcome comeback in some regions, including southern parts of the US.
Alas for the OP's thesis, microbes don't really care if the populations they infect happen to be liberal or conservative. This is especially true if the host population (we humans) happens to not be vaccinated against them. Now which city is likely to cough up the money on its own to vaccinate its residents? NOLA? Phoenix? Denver?
I place my bet on Denver - a prosperous, liberal city in a state becoming more blue by the day. State and local officials in a progressive city may not like having to raise the taxes a little or cut some fat from other programs to buy the serum for a metro wide vaccination program, but they'll like even less the prospect of their residents dying en masse on the capitol steps in Denver.
On the other hand, Phoenix seems to be ruled by fairly well off, older, white males. This segment of the population would just as soon watch a person die before their very eyes rather than vote to tax themselves .20 cents, so that their fellow citizens could be spared infection and possible death. After all, Old White Guy can pay out of his pocket for any needed vaccines, and should the situation become bothersome enough, Old White Guy can always opt to fly off to the Bahamas and wait the whole thing out, returning home when (and IF) there's anything left to return to.
There you have it - the threat of future dystopia brought to you by City Data and the Republican Party.
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As it wouldn't effect the nation as a whole?
