U.S. Won't Provide Flu Vaccines for Migrant Families

[applegrove]

U.S. Won’t Provide Flu Vaccines for Migrant Families

August 20, 2019 at 1:11 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 97 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2019/08/20/u-s-wont-provide-flu-vaccines-for-migrant-families/

"SNIP....

“The U.S. won’t be vaccinating migrant families in holding centers ahead of this year’s flu season, despite calls from doctors to boost efforts to fight the infection that’s killed at least three children at detention facilities in the past year,” CNBC reports.

.....SNIP"

[virgogal]

1. This should please the anti-vaxxers.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Can The Geneva Convention apply when there hasn't been a

declared war?

Why hasn't the U.N. addressed this?

[spanone]

3. So they're hoping they get sick and die? Would. Not. Surprise. Me.

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anything to up the cruelty factor.

[applegrove]

8. 'Some Suburb of Hell': America's New Concentration Camp System

‘Some Suburb of Hell’: America’s New Concentration Camp System

Andrea Pitzer at New York Review of Books

https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/06/21/some-suburb-of-hell-americas-new-concentration-camp-system/

"SNIP......

Meanwhile, in southern Africa in 1900, the British had opened their own camps during their battle with descendants of Dutch settlers in the second Boer War. British soldiers filled tent cities with Boer women and children, and the military authorities called them refugee camps. Future Prime Minister David Lloyd George took offense at that name, noting in Parliament: “There is no greater delusion in the mind of any man than to apply the term ‘refugee’ to these camps. They are not refugee camps. They are camps of concentration.” Contemporary observers compared them to the Cuban camps, and criticized their deliberate cruelty. The Bishop of Hereford wrote to The Times of London in 1901, asking: “Are we reduced to such a depth of impotence that our Government can do nothing to stop such a holocaust of child-life?”

Maggoty meat rations and polluted water supplies joined outbreaks of contagious diseases amid crowded and unhealthy conditions in the Boer camps. More than 27,000 detainees are thought to have died there, nearly 80 percent of them children. The British had opened camps for black Africans as well, in which at least 14,000 detainees died—the real number is probably much higher. Aside from protests made by some missionaries, the deaths of indigenous black Africans did not inspire much public outrage. Much of the history of the suffering in these camps has been lost.


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[onecaliberal]

4. For fucks sake.

[sakabatou]

5. Because epidemics are awesome!

[deminks]

6. That's gonna turn around and bite them in the derriere.

Illnesses have a way of breaking out of camps when people can't. Not to mention the devastation inside the camp. This is not a deterrent. It is a crime.

Stupid is as Stupid does.

[leanforward]

7. Who is coming up with this nonsense?

What/who came up with that idea. May they rot in hell. May the idea creator and implementor be put in solitary.

[Vinca]

9. A few bucks saved by denying vaccines, thousands spent when they become ill.

Typical Trump plan. Just like defunding clinics that provide contraception in order to reduce abortions.

[applegrove]

10. Miller must have 'pandemic in my concentration camp' on his bucket list.

[NightWatcher]

11. When do they pass out blankets with smallpox?

They're so heartless they won't even give out blankets.

Genocidal maniacs, but whatever.

[Liberal In Texas]

12. Yeah, that won't help spread the flu to the general population or anything.

I hope is orangeness comes down with a bad case it.