Migrants bring tuberculosis back to Chicago

Diversity is our *COUGH* strength!

The US has had tuberculosis outbreaks amongst the general (non-migrant) population for decades, so big deal. Don't the dumb fuckers that post this shit actually read much?

Bring back Ellis Island!

OP = troll

Go home Boris.

Idiots at R4 and R5 who equate posting a news article from ABC to being a Russian troll.

That's how stupid they are.

65 cases in Cook County in 2022

First world problems

Well now, Americans who are VACCINATED won't have to worry about a thing, will they?

fuck these cunts!!!!!

I was vaccinated. Doesnt worry me.

I will bear it stoically...like Ingrid Bergman in the Bells of St. Mary's.

See, I told you all along. I was try to protect us from this chronic and debilitating illness.

TB vaccinations are not routine in the US.

Thanks Uncle Joe! "We did it!"

r1 will say nothing about anti-vaxxers spreading measles in Florida

r15, your boy Trump called a deadly pandemic a "democrat hoax"

And your anti-vaxxer boyfriend Ron DeSantis is allowing measles to spread in Florida

I vote straight Democratic and have never voted Republican in my life. Still, I'm not thrilled with the stat that 10-20 percent of the South American migrants being admitted to the US carry the latent TB virus. Those most at risk in Chicago are shelter residents. it's a public health problem that calls for testing and vaccination.

Vote RFK JR anti-vaxx ticket to make the spread of all diseases permanent!

R16, R17

CBS News March 22:

"Illinois has reported the most measles cases in recent weeks, with 17 total infections reported in Chicago. Most were residents at a migrant shelter. "

[quote] Vote RFK JR anti-vaxx ticket to make the spread of all diseases permanent!

RFK didn't open the border wide

I cannot die like Camille for you!

Immigrants (the "migrant" expression now being loaded with political bias) have carried TB into the US and Western Europe all along.

Politicizing the problem now is just MAGA crap.

If everyone is vaxxed they don't affect the population. Get your vaccinations.

TB or not TB? *That* is the congestion.

"Migrants"

R2 That's stupid.

i'm sure they bring all kinds of diseases....they live in third world countries.

R28 And why is that okay? Legal immigrants are tested for diseases before entering. As it should be.

They test everybody, or should, they do not vax everybody.

I really have to laugh at people saying "no big deal" to a headline that reads "Migrants bring tuberculosis back to Chicago".

Why R31? Most people are vaccinated in childhood. That's the whole point of vaccinating populations.

R32 TB levels are the highest in a decade.

Every large city in the US have had Tuberculosis breakouts on and off forever- trying to pin it specifically on migrants is just dumb and uninformed.

Hepatitis C used to be considered an STI- nowadays an overwhelming number of them come from dirty restaurants.

R34 That's not the point. Welcoming immigrants who carry serious diseases is stupid. It's not about pinning it on anybody. Use your common sense. You would not be welcomed into another country if you had TB.

Yes, among unvaxxed.

[Quote] Hepatitis C used to be considered an STI- nowadays an overwhelming number of them come from dirty restaurants

R34 The CDC confirms that you cannot contract HCV through:

eating with utensils shared by someone with hepatitis C holding hands, hugging, or kissing someone with hepatitis C being near someone with hepatitis C when they cough or sneeze nursing (babies can’t get hepatitis C through breast milk) food and water.

The smallpox vaccine is the most effective vaccine of all time, and even it is not quite 100% effective. Other vaccines are less than 100% effetvie. And believe it or not we have a responsibility to protect all citizens, Vaxed or unvaxed. The best way is always to avoid the disease in any ways possible.

This is an argument for public health measures, not for denying asylum.

Yes it is, r39. Illegals brings disease. It’s always been this way.

The shelters in Chicago are Venezuelan asylum applicants. They are not illegals. Buh bye and have a nice MAGA thread.

Correction: The residents of the shelters in Chicago aree Venezuelan asylum applicants. Now I'm gone.

r21 neither did Biden - you are reading right from Fox News/ Newsmax OAN talking points -if you count all the contracts for private industry from US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) since Joe Biden took office—for, that is, 2021, 2022, and 2023—the number comes to $23.5 billion. And though you’d never guess it, given what we normally hear, that already beats Donald Trump’s total for his full four years in office, $20.9 billion. Or, to put the matter in a more historical perspective, private contracts for the Biden years already top the cumulative $22.5 billion spent in border and immigration enforcement budgets from 1975 to 1997. That’s 22 years if you weren’t counting.

[quote]The shelters in Chicago are Venezuelan asylum applicants. They are not illegals.

They entered the country legally?

[quote]I really have to laugh at people saying "no big deal" to a headline that reads "Migrants bring tuberculosis back to Chicago".

No big deal!

"Chicago Health warns of possible measles exposure on CTA buses, city schools"

Maybe if parents vaccinated their kids, this wouldn't be an issue.

Bus no. 8 is Halsted.

R41 is too clueless that these migrants are fake asylum seekers.

R34 Hep C spread in restaurants? I would love to see research proving that. Thanks hun.

-- Science

R19 gurlina, this manipulative slur "anti vaxxer" has become tired. RFK is for better institutional control of pharmaceutical companies, not against vaccines per se.

Also, RFK is for border control, he is against creating immigration crisis to bring chrap work force for corporations.

cheap work force*

Online anti-vaxxers in comments sections are saying these diseases are no big deal. Herd immunity and all that. Lots of "I had measles and it was no big deal". I'm assuming they're lying as I too had it and it was awful, I had to staying a dark room with no TV or reading for a few days while feeling like death. Apparently, the vaxx I received in a certain year was non-active(?) or something.

[quote][R19] gurlina, this manipulative slur "anti vaxxer" has become tired. RFK is for better institutional control of pharmaceutical companies, not against vaccines per se.

Again and again, Kennedy has made his opposition to vaccines clear. In July, Kennedy said in a podcast interview that “There’s no vaccine that is safe and effective” and told FOX News that he still believes in the long-ago debunked idea that vaccines can cause autism. In a 2021 podcast he urged people to “resist” CDC guidelines on when kids should get vaccines.

“I see somebody on a hiking trail carrying a little baby and I say to him, better not get them vaccinated,” Kennedy said.

That same year, in a video promoting an anti-vaccine sticker campaign by his nonprofit, Kennedy appeared onscreen next to one sticker that declared “IF YOU’RE NOT AN ANTI-VAXXER YOU AREN’T PAYING ATTENTION.”

R50, RFK Jr is very much an anti-vaxxer. It's bullshit if you have to add "per se." It's like Ted Bundy saying he's not against murdering young women, per se, but still does it.

[quote] Herd immunity and all that.

You do understand don't you that herd immunity is also the goal of vaccination programs? Please be sufficiently aware as to not refer to it as something silly or insignificant. Regardless how it's achieved that's how we survive.

Yes R55 but anti-vaxx assholes want do it by allowing everyone to get sick instead of just getting vaccinated. Apparently, child mortality is not a big concern.

[quote]Maybe if parents vaccinated their kids, this wouldn't be an issue.

Maybe if we secured the border we wouldn’t have disease, criminals and people we can’t afford. Maybe then we could then afford universal healthcare.

I've lived in a border area for years R57. The "border crisis" is the new Roe vs Wade right talking point.

R58, it’s not, and Joe Biden doesn’t even agree with you.

Yes R59.

[quote]Maybe if we secured the border we wouldn’t have disease, criminals and people we can’t afford. Maybe then we could then afford universal healthcare.

r57 - r59 Talk to the rethugs.

Send them all to sanctuary cities.

It’s the close quarters, not the immigrants. I caught TB from being in a state psychiatric facility in the early 1980s. There’s a regimen of medication available for an easy cure. Quit trying to cast the folks as vermin. It’s so depressing seeing this site sliding into the reich wing dung heap at every turn. Jesus, we’re a first world country. We can handle it assuming we want to.

[quote]I caught TB from being in a state psychiatric facility in the early 1980s.

This is the most DataLounge sentence ever that doesn't reference Vivian Vance.

[quote]I caught TB from being in a state psychiatric facility in the early 1980s.

R63 IS Helen Lawson!

R63, Hi crazy motherfucker! Are you still nuts?

There’s always been plenty of TB around with addicts and the homeless.

R49 - Oops! It's A, not C. As it is, it doesn't change my original point anyways.

It seems like all migrants should be given a round of vaccinations before they're released from custody. It probably won't happened since the CBP went to court over whether they're obligated to give basic care to the people in their custody.

OP- You mean

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS

I get confused. Are we supposed to be against and concerned about the communicable disease risk of all different types of high risk population groups found with excess incidence of infectious disease ?

Or does this just apply to those high risk groups who are also immigrants,

On an unrelated note they are proposing doing away with the term AIDS. Replaced with the term—-advanced HIV.

Now back to local programming.

[quote] they are proposing doing away with the term AIDS. Replaced with the term—-advanced HIV.

Yes and we had to "contribute" a small fortune to the DNC for this but it will be worth it. We're back baby!

This is ridiculous.

Thanks Conald “Open Borders” Trump

R75 you misspelled Biden

[quote] OP- You mean ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS

I’m so confused, I thought that they were ILLEGAL ALIENS. You know, like aliens from some place else. Did we switch our minds on what they are called.

The Industrial Revolution is over. There are no factories. They are here to collect free checks, be influencers, and to steal & rape. Keep voting BLUE!!!

R76 FUCKS NEWS won’t tell me about the Congressional Vote to keep the borders WIDE OPEN for Rapey Orange Jesus.

R73 A LAUGHT RIOT, you are! Are you here all night? Keep em coming! AYDS, huh? I haven't thought about that in 50 years! ROFL!