At one time, the idea of putting TB patients in prison, to ensure they received the entire 6 months of treatment, was considered. Drug resistant TB emerged because people wouldn't finish the cycle of antibiotics, so all the bacteria wasn't killed and the ones that survived were stronger/resistant.

This is so reckless and having worked in medicine in Fla, I have little respect for many of the practitioners there, but this is beyond corruption, this is criminally insane.

because most people are too stupid to understand. They still think that no matter what disease they get, their doctor can just prescribe them a few days of pills, and everything will be hunky-dory.

So as long as only the homeless are infected, it's perfectly OK.

The homeless, poor and vulnerable are truly untermenschen in the United States, aren't they?

I just warned my son not to go to Jacksonville.

I called a bunch of GOP office & urged them not to endanger them selves or
get infected & spread it all over the country.

STAY OUT OF FLORIDA!

I had a lot of fun feigning concern & telling them how contagious it was & no
matter how rich you are someone could sneeze on anything you touch & BAM!!
you r infected.

The responses were muted, quiet & scared sounding.

BTW Guv. Skelator references were loudly loved by dems, who I urged to require TB screening from all
Reps & Sens attending the convention, b4 they are allowed into session.

even this should be a reason for universal health care.

In Ft. Lauderdale they have homeless selling newspapers which is a upscale form of panhandling. I've been told by the locals that these people have MRSA and that the papers are infected. I don't know if this is true, but really have no easy and safe way to find out. It's Florida so there are all sorts of money collection scams going on. "Churches" and "War Veterans" are popular.

Under the republican world view if I don't have to help pay for something it's paid for with magic money.

The bare minimum one hopes for from a public health official is that they NOT hide diseases, especially infectious ones.

These officials in Florida appear to have failed to meet the barest minimumest possible standard for proper conduct for someone entrusted to protect public health. They should be gone yesterday.