Bob McCarty Writes

Experts at the Centers for Disease Control address the subject of voluntary or involuntary placement of individuals in isolation or quarantine this way: To contain the spread of a contagious illness, public health authorities rely on many strategies. Two of these strategies are isolation and quarantine. Both are common practices in public health, and both [...]

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I’m not a smoker, but I might have an answer to the mystery of why, according to a just-released report (pdf) from a coalition of public health organizations, Missouri ranks 49th in the nation in funding programs to protect kids from tobacco. First, some background from a news release about the report: Missouri currently spends [...]

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In a Bob McCarty Writes post May 3, I asked the following question: If liberals oppose the GITMO-style approach to dealing with people who want nothing less than to wipe America off the map, what will they say to locking up people when the next disease pandemic sweeps the planet? Three days ago, after news [...]

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In the headline of a Bob McCarty Writes post May 3, I raised this question: Will Liberals View Terrorism, TB in Similar Way? Today, it seems officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta are one step closer to having to answer that question. At 2 p.m. Eastern today, CDC officials held [...]

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Since the beginning of the War on Terror, liberals have used a plethora of far-from-complementary adjectives to describe the U.S. military’s detainment facility at Guantánamo Bay. Today, for instance, a reader need only read the lead paragraph of a New York Times editorial on the subject to understand the slant of the editorial: The five-year-old [...]

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