Dickensian diseases on the rise

[SnailyBoy]

13 minutes ago, woodview said:

I don't give a monkeys about either of them.

I just find silly posts trying to blame everything on the government futile and counter productive.

On the other hand, you and others are more than happy to turn a blind eye to the misinformation if it drags in people you don't like.

I prefer an honest approach. Each to their own 

Lol, still not getting it, are you?

 

It was a joke, satire, an amusing reference to Victorian attitudes of certain politicians, past and present. 

Edited February 4, 2019 by SnailyBoy

[woodview]

21 minutes ago, SnailyBoy said:

Lol, still not getting it, are you?

 

It was a joke, satire, an amusing reference to Victorian attitudes of certain politicians, past and present. 

No. And others are saying it IS the government's fault.

joke

/dʒəʊk/

noun

1. 1.

   a thing that someone says to cause amusement or laughter, especially a story with a funny punchline

Edited February 4, 2019 by woodview

[nikki-red]

Back on topic please.

[Mister M]

2 hours ago, woodview said:

No. And others are saying it IS the government's fault.

joke

/dʒəʊk/

noun

1. 1.

   a thing that someone says to cause amusement or laughter, especially a story with a funny punchline

I saw a headline about diseases from the Victorian era, becoming more prevalent, and I made an attempt at political satire by referencing the MP Jacob Rees Mogg and Margaret Thatcher. I realise now that was foolish because my referencing wasn't meant to be taken literally.

Sorry if you didn't find it amusing. 

Edited February 4, 2019 by Mister M

[melthebell]

This is what happens when you dont vaccinate

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47715169

 

due to philosophical, religious and conspiracy theorist nonsense

[Hots on]

I had to laugh when I heard recently that a  prominent Italian politician who is an outspoken "Anti vaxxer" contracted chicken pox. Lol.

[Chez2]

4 hours ago, Hots on said:

I had to laugh when I heard recently that a  prominent Italian politician who is an outspoken "Anti vaxxer" contracted chicken pox. Lol.

Why? I know you were talking about an Italian but in the UK  the chicken pox vaccine isn't given to everyone. Considering how it can affect certain members of the population eg pregnant woment (the unborn child) or people with weakened immune systems it would be good to immunise if people hadn't had it by their teenage years. 

[Ethella]

My parents were born in the 1930's and bothsuffered from Whooping Cough in their childhoods.  They've always said what an horrific illness it was for them.  I (born in the 1950's) had the vaccine, so thankfully never suffered from it, along with vaccines for Smallpox and Diphtheria and later a sugar cube to avoid Polio - my father's cousin spent many many years in an iron lung after contracting Polio. 

I was stuck down with Measels at the age of three, and chicken pox at seven and thankfully fully recovered from both.  I've never had Mumps.

My paternal Grandmother contracted Diphtheria in the early 1900's at the age of four and had a permanent limp as a consequence. 

People (parents) sadly don't seem to  realise how horrific these diseases are and seem to think it won't happen to their child.

[Lex Luthor]

On 03/02/2019 at 10:56, andyofborg said:

avoiding vaccines is easier these days and this is why these diseases are starting to spike. 

 

the question is why people want to avoid them? 

perhaps also, people have forgotten the consequences of some of these infections diseases. at the start of the public immunisation programs two or three generations of parents will have suffered or seen their siblings and friends suffer from these diseases. they will not have wanted their offspring to suffer and will have embraced anything to prevent that. 

 

the relationship between people and the state started to change under thatcher, the effect of cameron and osbourne changed it more dramatically. 

 

Thatcher would have lived through these times and I doubt she would have countenanced undermining the public health system to the extent it has been. The public school boys will never have thought about it when they embalked on "austerity". Thatcher may not be responsible for this but she enabled her successors to do it.

 

Thatcher had a direct hand in the deterioration of child nutrition.  She wasn't named the milk snatcher for nothing. 

[Robin-H]

6 hours ago, Lex Luthor said:

Thatcher had a direct hand in the deterioration of child nutrition.  She wasn't named the milk snatcher for nothing. 

Harold Wilson's Labour government stopped free milk for secondary school pupils in 1968 and then in 1971, Lady Thatcher, who was education secretary under Sir Edward Heath, ended free school milk for children over the age of seven, so Labour took away free milk for a lot more pupils than Thatcher (who only affected children 8-11). 

 

Also, it’s worth noting that Thatcher fought against the cuts. Heath wanted free milk stopped for all primary school children (they were needing ways to save money), and Thatcher proposed instead that only children older than 7 wouldn’t get free milk anymore, which Heath accepted.