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Guin--I guess to me that would depend on what you are paying for; not too many years ago most of a paper's revenue was made from ads--the small price covered mostly its distribution. The same is true for most websites, which are flush with ads. I wouldn't mind paying for something that didn't assault me with dozens of pop ups every time I opened it, but paying for a commercial website that is full of ads (as many newspaper sites are) seems to be double dipping; IMHO it's like paying a premium price to access a channel that still has commercials. I just don't think it's worth it. If I get unadulterated news (like through NPR) I'm more than happy to pay.Professional journalism is one of the bulwarks against totalitarianism and the alt-facts world. I don't mind supporting quality work with a subscription.
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And she is a doctor, for fuck's sake. Jesus H. Fucking Christ upside down on a bicycle on Calvary, someone please shoot me now.State Rep. Betty Price (yes, she is his wife), a Republican from Roswell, suggested quarantining people living with HIV during a House study committee meeting addressing the barriers HIV-positive people face.
Price's suggestion came Tuesday during a two-hour meeting of the House Study Committee on Georgians' Barriers to Access to Adequate Health Care. Price – a medical doctor and wife of Dr. Tom Price, the former Secretary of Health & Human Services – asked Pascale Wortley if quarantining people was an option given how much the state spends on care for people with HIV. Wortley, director of the HIV Epidemiology Section for Georgia Department of Health, was discussing HIV treatment with the committee.
“My thinking sometimes goes in strange directions, but before you proceed if you wouldn’t mind commenting on the surveillance of partners, tracking of contacts, that sort of thing. What are we legally able to do," Price said.
"And I don’t want to say the quarantine word, but I guess I just said it. Is there an ability, since I would guess that public dollars are expended heavily in prophylaxis and treatment of this condition. So we have a public interest in curtailing the spread. What would you advise or are there any methods legally that we could do that would curtail the spread,” Price added.
Wortley said state healthcare officials work with people newly diagnosed with HIV to identify sex partners so they can be notified, as well as link people with HIV to care. She did not directly address Price's suggestion of quarantining people with HIV.
Price (top photo) also made other disturbing comments during the committee meeting.
“It seems to me it’s almost frightening the number of people who are living that are potentially carriers, well they are carriers, with the potential to spread, whereas in the past they died more readily and then at that point they are not posing a risk. (that's right, why aren't those plague carrying fuckers dying like they are supposed to?) So we’ve got a huge population posing a risk if they are not in treatment,” Price said later during Wortley's presentation.
Dazon Dixon Diallo, the founder and executive director of SisterLove, said Price's comments were concerning and showed that HIV activists and organizations have more work to do educating lawmakers about people living with HIV.
“When we come into spaces like this and we hear questions around how legally far can we go to isolate people or even quarantine people, then it just lets you know that we have a real uphill battle,” Diallo said.
True of course. But I will relate one equally true story. I went to see my doctor yesterday. He's in his seventies. My blood pressure was 104/55. "That seems a little low" I remarked. He looked at me. "Trump Trump Trump Trump. That should do it." I enjoy going to see my doctor.An MD doesn't prevent a person from being an ignorant ass.
I thought "How To Be An Ass" was an elective in the curriculum.Big RR wrote:An MD doesn't prevent a person from being an ignorant ass.
Yes, HIV was required from the late 80s until around 2010; I believe in addition to the venereal diseases, that a TB test must be run and the immigrant must be examined by an approved physician for evidence of other communicable diseases as well as proof of vaccinations. Not sure why syphilis/gonorrhea are included as there have to be far more dangerous and infectious diseases than those (not to mention that they are, for the most part, treatable), but I guess it's a bow to our puritanical culture.Not HIV although my memory tells me that it did require it once upon a time.
Too funny! So was I - I even interned two years at the student health clinic and one semester in EMMC’s oncology department, but was turned off both by many of my classmates and by some of the doctors I worked around.Big RR wrote:I was premed for two years as an undergrad, but when I saw the jerks who were getting into med school I made up my mind not to go as I didn't want them as colleagues the rest of my life. These were people who would screw up someone else's experiment in a lab course so they could get a better grade on the curve.
Sounds like something a law student would do.Big RR wrote:These were people who would screw up someone else's experiment in a lab course so they could get a better grade on the curve.
I don't know, I think entertainers, especially actors, have them both beat. Cops too.Then of all ironies I ended up in the only other profession with an equally high rate of assholes.
I've always said, if I could do math I would have been an accountant. (The only thing I need to know now is how to divide by three.)Big RR wrote: and Scooter, most lawyers don't know what a curve is--math and all.
The expert witness, usually.Crackpot wrote:Who gets the extra penny?
