[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Your fear of foreigners bringing diseases to the US that might harm you >> would also mean you would fear going outside the US to visit other >> countries for fear of catching some disease. >> >> Anyway, there should be an international standard regarding the issuing >> and keeping current of passports that includes vaccination and a waiting >> period until the disease vaccinated against ether show up or the >> immunity to the disease become effective. This would reduce the spread >> of disease from people traveling between countries. Lice are not a >> disease and can be easily controlled. More harm is done from >> stigmatization that occur from having lice than any harm lice might do. >> > > Interesting solution... how do you expect to apply it to illegals sneaking > across the border. You've just made a pretty good argument for the fence and > other measures. Don't you just hate those 'oops moments'? > Do people coming across our border pose any greater health threat to Americans than what we already normally face? This problem has been going on for some time now, and I have never heard much about it causing any health issue to the general population of the US. I doubt illegal border crossings are a serious health issue, and there are so may other ways that disease can spread from human to human contact. As was already noted, mesquites can transmit disease from one sick person to another, and our borders don't address this problem.
Rather than thinking about illegal border crossing as any kind of serious health threat, I would rather think about about the more important challenges. There is the threat of disease from biological weapons that can be delivered by plane, ships, and guided missiles, etc, and a border fence doesn't address this problem. Then there is the threat of harm from natural disaster like the recent tsunami that took 250,000 lives, and a border fence doesn't protect against disasters from earth quakes, flood, hurricanes, like the one that hit New Orleans, volcanic eruptions, and tsunami. Many of our most serious health challenges do not even involve communicable diseases. Disease like high blood pressure and diabetes are a tremendous threat to Americans health, because they lead to heart attacks and st rocks. We have not yet found a cure for cancer, which is a much bigger health treats to Americans than diseases arising out of illegal border crossing. The key to reducing the threat of harm from disease is research into cures, or preemptive medicine like vaccinations or changing to a healthy style of living. Money could be much better spent in these area to reduce the threat of disease than building fences to deter illegals from crossing our borders. Regards, LelandJ > Regarding the stigma... we just can't make people feel bad, can we? > Regarding your theory that the fence would eventually be used to keep people > from sneaking out... why would we want to do that. If you want to go to > Mexico or France... be my guest. > > Larry Miller > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- > multipart/alternative > text/plain (text body -- kept) > text/html > --- > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
