Posted on 11/11/2011 9:56:23 AM PST by Impala64ssa
With wintry weather poised to swoop into the cramped outdoor quarters of Occupy Wall Street protesters, it may not be long before more campers catch what's being called "Zuccotti lung."
That's what demonstrators have dubbed the sickness that seems to be spreading among them at an unpleasantly high rate these days: "It's a real thing," Willie Carey, 28, told the New York Times.
With little sleep in cold conditions, cigarettes and drinks being passed from mouth to mouth, and few opportunities to wash hands, Zuccotti Park may now just be the best place to catch respiratory viruses, norovirus (also known as the winter vomiting virus) and tuberculosis, according to one doctor.
The damp clothing and cardboard signs wet with rain are also breeding grounds for mold. Some protesters are urinating in bottles and leaving food trash discarded throughout the campground, providing further opportunities for nastiness.
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If they’re the real deal they’ll be “Occupy” enough to not use any for profit medical care.
Zuccotti, sounds like a make of Italian sports car or motorcycle.
If you think this is bad you should see their apartments.
Do they make a neutron bomb small enough to cover just a city-block?
(Just curious. Not really suggesting anything.)
You’re kidding? You never get rid of that type of TB?
The cooks are already getting pissed about working 12+hrs a day , when they start press ganging the rest of the mob into kitchen duties watch the disease rate skyrocket due to the poor sanitation of all involved.
Dysentery & E-coli outbreaks can be deadly if not caught & treated early . You will see Darwin & evolution in action very shortly.
What most people don’t know is that before the invention of antibiotics, disease killed more folks in time of war than anything else, the belt fed machine gun came close in WWI & it certainly killed men faster but it was a second place contender.
So far they have U.R.I.(Upper Respiratory Infection) with more of the general mob helping in the “kitchen” look for outbreaks of dysentary & E-coli to break out.
Dysentary ,U.R.I. &e-coli OH MY 8*O .Wonder how many will get dead from the diseases before they figure out that cooking/eating were you shit & not keeping clean is not a really smart idea?
Isn’t cholera a mosquito/flea born disease ?
Cholera is a, um, poop-borne disease. No insect or animal vectors required.
Pressure washers & LYSOL cleans deodorizes & disinfects & it does it without all the collateral damage of a tactical nuke or even a little napalm strike from a A-10 or a Harrier jump jet. 8*>
Too bad these morons dont read history. In wars like the Civil War more troops were lost due to illness than bullets. Camps without proper sanitary care are breeding grounds for sickness.
This should show why in a class war or a SHTF event, these people would perish because they are stupid and didnt take the right precautions.
On the southern end of Roosevelt Island under the Queensboro bridge are some dilapidated buildings that were used as an insane asylum and TB sanitorium until 80-90 yrs. ago. Maybe it’s time to create “shovel ready” jobs and restore this facility and ship the occupunks to their new home.
No you don’t it is antibiotic resistant and has to be treated for life to try to keep it under control.I think they can keep it from being infectious but you always harbor the virus and it can become like that over and over.
Yea, sue the city for allowing them to occupy.
MRSA seems to be like that too, coming back over and over. I know a kid who got MRSA during wrestling season in high school and kept getting it back. I won’t say that he got it from wrestling because the kid also is an addict. The last time, he was in the hospital for months. I think that his arm is pretty much useless, now.
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