Public Health, Personal Responsibility
As the hoopla about swine flu continues to dominate the front pages and airwaves, let me draw your attention for a moment to a tiny story hidden away at the back of today’s New York Times.
It seems the gentleman infected with drug-resistant TB who ignored public health warnings and got on a series of airplanes in 2006 so he could go on his honeymoon is suing the Centers for Disease Control. The agency released his medical records back then in an effort to find and stop him before he infected anyone else. Apparently, the stress caused by the damage this did to his professional reputation and marriage (which ended in divorce) are worth some undisclosed amount.
Let’s try not to laugh too hard at this irony, lest we uncover our mouths in public. And here’s to all who exhibit personal responsibility and restraint to help improve public health!
Now, I must go wash my hands for a full 20 seconds.
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As I heard on NPR today, singing the ABC song will get you your full 20 seconds
The disguised threat in all of this is that as peoplefight to reduce obesity the knock on effect of all of this then emerges as levels of fitness tightens up with little available exercise being taken and more disease becoming prevalent…If Central Governments don’t take a grip soon then we could be facing an over weight problem.
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