Very public Pathologies
An English journal by Dr. Zabdiel Boylston from 1730.
Adapted from Robert Whitcomb’s “Digital Diary,’’ in GoLocal24.com
A distinguished physician friend of mine raises a point I wish I had made in last week’s column: The danger of epidemic/pandemic spread of measles and other highly contagious diseases in the World (soccer) Cup competition games to be played June 13 to July 9 at Gillette Stadium. Tens of thousands of people from all over the place will be visiting, bringing the risk of disease in a country whose corrupt (and often ignorant) regime has been discouraging vaccination.
The low level of education, especially about science, and susceptibility to demagogic lies, provide a fertile field for unvaccinated people to spread disease. It will muffle some of the cheering, but maybe wear a face mask to the stadium?
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I think we should be leery of for-profit schools, at least below the post-high-school trades-training institutions. See what’s going on at the elementary-and-early-middle-school Croft Schools, two of which are in Boston and one at Providence’s Wayland Square. They’re swamped in a financial scandal centered on education entrepreneur and founder Scott Given, who has, or had, a passion for expanding them. Now he’s spending quality time with lawyers.
And I don’t think that the asset-strippers known as private equity should own such essential facilities as hospitals and nursing homes. More of that soon.