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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday September 13 2017, @04:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the crappy-job dept.

San Diego workers will power-wash streets with a bleach solution in an attempt to stop the spread of Hepatitis A:

At least 15 people have died in San Diego from an ongoing hepatitis A outbreak. In an effort to stop the spread of the viral liver disease, city officials have begun power-washing streets across the downtown area, according to NBC San Diego.

As of Monday, workers dressed in protective white gear and red hard hats were seen outside spraying the sidewalks with a bleach-based liquid in hopes of killing the virus that lives in human feces. "We're probably going to be doing them every other Monday, see how that works out at least for the time being," Jose Ysea, a city spokesman, told NBC San Diego.

The high-pressure power-washing system using bleach will hopefully remove "all feces, blood, bodily fluids or contaminated surfaces," according to a sanitation plan included in a letter delivered to San Diego city officials, the Associated Press reports. For now, just streets in San Diego are being washed, but in the near future hand-washing and street-sanitizing efforts will be implemented in other cities in the region, Dr. Wilma Wooten, the region's public health officer, told the AP.

Also at LA Times. San Diego outbreak page.

Previously: San Diego Declares Emergency Due to Outbreak of Hepatitis A


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 13 2017, @05:27PM (8 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 13 2017, @05:27PM (#567304)

    Only in the most technical sense. Capitalism is the same moral problem that slavery was in many ways. It results in the devaluation of humans for a profit. Which is one of the reasons why you see employees being treated more and more like slaves over time. It's something that we saw during the gilded era where employees were effectively slaves in many cases, forced to work for their entire lives to pay back debts to the company to cover the things necessary to do the job.

    This is the most profitable way of doing business and in the absence of any real regulation saying they can't do it, they'll push for that. To make matters worse, the politicians are increasingly on the take and are willing to roll back the regulations out of fear of angering the "job creators."

    Charities really only fund popular causes and not necessarily even effective methods of dealing with the problem. The proper way to deal with the homeless would be to just give them homes. Even if those homes are simply repurposed shipping containers with minor upgrades. Just having a fixed address, bathroom and roof over head makes a huge difference in terms of being able to get a job.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 13 2017, @05:31PM (7 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 13 2017, @05:31PM (#567309)

    To enslave somebody is to allocate his capital against his will; it's absolutely forbidden by capitalism.

    The closest modern equivalent to slavery is taxation.

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 13 2017, @05:41PM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 13 2017, @05:41PM (#567320)

      And yet, it happened routinely during the gilded age. I take it you're not familiar with the company store model of business. Miners would have to buy their supplies from the company at a markup that was high enough that they could never actually afford to pay back the debt.

      Referring to that as something other than slavery is a matter of semantics, those miners were unable to leave and were required to work, with the company getting to keep all of the proceeds. For all practical purposes that's slavery.

      These days it hasn't yet hit that point, but it's rapidly moving that direction as the wages being handed out for work are insufficient to pay the costs of living for a larger and larger number of people. In some cases, like with Uber, the cost of working can actually be larger than the amount of money being paid at times.

      • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 13 2017, @05:58PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 13 2017, @05:58PM (#567340)

        Not much point arguing with libertarian ideologues. They have decided to not compromise their ideals and ignore the inevitable problems that would result from their policies. They ignore the importance of communal services, there really isn't much else to say to people so far removed from humanity.

        Libertarians - the end result of US capitalism + individualism. Some decent ideas wrapped around a core of insanity.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 13 2017, @06:01PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 13 2017, @06:01PM (#567344)

        Your example is completely irrelevant. Nobody had to do anything; people made choices.

        You're completely neglecting other aspects of society that lead to such dysfunction, including those modern dysfunctions.

        Why is it that TWO working people struggle to support themselves, let alone a single child, when it used to be common for a single man to support a family of 5 with money to spare?

        Please. Your government existed in the gilded age, and it exists today. It's your government that is a failure, and it's your government that keeps perpetuating the failure in ever more intricate ways.

        • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 14 2017, @06:19AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 14 2017, @06:19AM (#567667)

          Nope, it's capitalists. They will charge what the market will bare. Families have 2 incomes now, great lets charge them more, they can afford it now. That other family has only 1 kid, and X dollars to your 5 kids but the same X dollars. Guess which kid gets the best stuff. Did the government force everyone to have less kids? Or did the capitalist system make it too expensive to have more?

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 13 2017, @05:59PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 13 2017, @05:59PM (#567341)

      This is the dumbest shit I've ever heard.

      You don't get to define words and then make declarations based on your narrow definitions. You're rather like an SJW in that sense.
      "Racism = Power + Prejudice"
      "Gender and sex are different things"
      "Girlpenis"

      This is you except at the end of the day you don't even get to fuck a bunch of tatted up alt chicks with pink pubes.. you get to go your own way and retire into a studio full of piss bottles.

      --Creimer

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 13 2017, @06:40PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 13 2017, @06:40PM (#567373)

      To enslave somebody is to allocate his capital against his will; it's absolutely forbidden by capitalism.

      Which is why you have to enslave people with their consent! It is called "employment", and as long as we have the vast army of the unemployed, and even better, people without a pot to poop in, lots of people will willingly enslave themselves to a capitalist. They don't call it "wage slavery" for nothing!

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 13 2017, @06:54PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 13 2017, @06:54PM (#567384)

        You have capital (e.g., your labor) that you can choose to allocate to this or that, and you don't want people forcing you to make any particular allocation.

        Your anger is misdirected.