Multiculturalism means more than interesting new restaurants:
Toronto, with its growing immigrant population, will likely see an increase of deadly, contagious tuberculosis, experts say. The current system simply couldn’t handle an outbreak, but the province has yet to make the changes required to protect citizens
Something to think about the nest time you are on a crowded subway, running under Chinatown or Little Somalia.
TB is not going to disappear from Toronto as long as we are an immigration centre. We need to plan for cases to continue to arrive here and to be able to deal with them at the highest level of care.
Yup, those ethnic restaurants were totally worth it. Right?
PS: It may also be worthwhile to remember that our immigrant darlings from Islamic countries are a bit needle-shy when it comes to vaccinations. But we must respect their faith, at all costs. To do otherwise would infringe on their human rights. Think about that when you are shipping your kid off to school with their kids.
Whether it’s Polio vaccines in their countries (and sometimes here, because we don’t enforce it), or the MMR vaccine in Britain, or countless other measures (including their own doctors and nurses having sub-standard levels of hygiene because female medical practitioners do not practice safe hand-washing), or the fact that countries like Somalia would rather spend money on warfare than on sanitation (expecting our evil, Infidel Christian charities to foot the bill for that), we are going to continue to have a problem with 19th century diseases resurfacing from 7th century countries.
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Pingback by Webloggin - Blog Archive » Multiculturalism means more than internesting new restaurants: — February 25, 2008 @ 8:09 am
Obviously todays progressive immigration buraucrats have forgotten the Ellis Island saved the US from a lot of expensive epidemic control.
Medicals should be mandatory and contagious disease carriers refused entry.
Comment by WL Mackenzie Redux — February 25, 2008 @ 10:00 am
Medicals ARE mandatory for all immigrants and diseased candidates ARE turned down.
So a northern region of Pakistan has a bunch of ignorant/illiterate clerics telling their people not to get their kids vaccinated against polio does not comprise a population that would migrate anywhere, maybe just southern Pakistan during the winter months. Plus, there are way more people who find the whole idea ridiculous (you know, the sane Muslims I always like to mention). Probably an exaggeration to then say “immigrant darlings from Islamic countries are a bit needle-shy when it comes to vaccinations.”
Comment by Blue — February 25, 2008 @ 5:27 pm
“Medicals ARE mandatory for all immigrants and diseased candidates ARE turned down.”
Only for those who bother with immigration dept demands…the southern US has TB at near epidemic stages…and you know why…Canada has an estimated 280,000 illegals at large who came on a 30 day visa and never left and there are between 200-300 illegal Chinese/asians a month estimated to be coming in to Vancouver.
To prevent some of these pandemics you have to have 100% effectiveness in trapping it all at immigration…nothing is that efficient.
There are still suspicions that SARS in TO started in the Chinese inner city community from an illegal…so again, I don’t understand the complete faith people put in bureaucracies…like everything else immigration laws only effect those prone to obey laws….telling me they have madatory medical laws is like telling me we should have no gun crime because we have a gun registry…same rationale.
Comment by WL Mackenzie Redux — February 25, 2008 @ 6:18 pm
Not just needles. In Britain, nurses and doctors of Muslim background are objecting to the standardized medical practice of washing arms to the elbows. It apparently shows too much provocative skin and so they’d prefer to have their clothing to the wrists, claiming it makes no difference in sanitary procedures.
Wait. No problem. They could just change clothing with every patient they attend! Yeah, that’s the ticket.
Comment by no guff — February 25, 2008 @ 10:35 pm
It wouldn’t make sense for Muslim doctors and nurses to object to the practice of washing up to the elbows. So, no, that’s not what they are objecting to. However, due to the serious issue of nosocomial infections, hospitals are implementing a “bare below the elbow” code. And that’s causing problems.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6998195.stm
And the Muslims aren’t the only ones opposing the idea.
“Dr Jim Arden, a consultant anaesthetist at King’s College Hospital, was unimpressed by the initiative.
He said: “The NHS is full of witchcraft solutions like this.
“There was no scientific study which examined infection transmission by jewellery, sleeves, cuffs, ties or anything else like this.
“Instead, the bosses make up a dress code for doctors which seems like a good idea to them, but has about as much validity as waving smoking pots in front of plague victim’s home.”
Hospitals, wherever they are, probably need to come up with substantial ways of reducing nosocomious infection rates.
Comment by Blue — February 26, 2008 @ 10:51 am
Mmm, not quite, Blue. With due respect to the doctor quoted, I wonder if he’s ever done dishes. If he has, he knows that the more frequently the dishcloth is wet and dried, the more it reeks of bacteria, to the point that you eventually have to throw it away (or boil it). Do you mean to tell me that the repeated wetting and drying of sleeves would not do the same thing?
RG
Comment by RightGirl — February 26, 2008 @ 10:56 am
Repeated wetting/drying of a fabric will attract germs which is why hospital workers are supposed to go down to the laundry and trade their scrubs for some fresh ones almost as often as they change their every day clothes. If you’re not doing that, it doesn’t matter if you have sleeves, no sleeves, you’re going to be a breeding ground for bacteria. And plus, when you’re dealing with a bunch of scientists, they like to claim that every thing is just a hypothesis if it’s not tested and proven, so I wouldn’t also disagree with the Dr. Arden.
My problem is with how a much larger issue of a rise in hospital infections turns into a Oh-the-darned-Muslims-and-them-immigrants issue. Numerous studies show that hospital workers don’t even scrub in properly, let alone care if their clothes are having a germ fest (I’ll post the source once I see it again). Ventilation systems within hospitals are excellent routes for bacteria to get everywhere and anywhere. And these bacteria aren’t stupid, they are mutating and strains are popping up that are resistant to what were once effective antibiotics. Bacterial strains that were once strictly hospital strains have now become community strains (like methicillin resistant Staph aureus) because of a host of reasons…not just because doctors and nurses have been wearing long sleeved lab coats.
Also true is that they are taking several, not just this coat thing, measures to deal with the problem of nosocomial infections. Anyway, I think the coat idea is stupid to begin with, and I want to go tell these female Muslim docs/nurses that Allah will surely not be mad if they are able to save a life or improve a life even if their arms are showing…we’ve just lost the spirit!
Comment by Blue — February 28, 2008 @ 11:07 am
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Well, let’s just wait until half of Toronto is dying from TB, Ebola or a re-occurence of the Bubonic plague before we actually DO anything to better screen Third World immigrants - that is - if we are allowed to, lest we offend their religious beliefs or dress code. Most of the country is half asleep at the best of times and it’s going to take a bloody disaster on a grand scale to wake us all up from the complacancy that could one day wipe out a fair number of people here. But its not just Toronto. You wouldn’er believe the poor hygene standards of many immigrants (Pakistanis, Sikhs and Somaliams) I meet looking for work. I mean they absolutely reek. If using toothpaste and deoderant isn’t a priority, then getting innoculated against potentially deadly diseases probably never crosses their minds.
When I arrived in Canada 15 years ago, I worked in an office with people from mainly Third World countries. Imagine my surpise to find that they didn’t have to go through all the bollocks I had to put up with before being accepted as an immigrant. First off, I had to go through TWO medicals, not including blood tests and chest X-rays before being passed fit. The same with my wife and two year-old son. Then they thought that junior had a squint in one of his eyes, therefore would not qualify for emigration. We had to take him to a specialist for another examination before he was passed. Then we had to show them our bank accounts, investments and mortgage papers to prove that we had enough money to live off once we landed in Canada. It took us two years to get here. My work colleagues from mainly Third World countries did NOt have to go through the same stringent checks and medicals, before being allowed into Canada only SIX MONTHS from the date they applied to emigrate here. Yert it is they who should be put through the wringer, considering that they come from countries with poor health records, deadly diseases, practically no innoculations and non-existant standards of hygene. Yet white people from Europe and South Africa who want to come here get turned down in their droves while the emmigration elites work feverishly at turning Canada into a Third World shit hole.
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