{"id":191908,"date":"2019-07-21T07:58:35","date_gmt":"2019-07-21T07:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=191908"},"modified":"2019-07-24T05:04:06","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T05:04:06","slug":"dr-drew-los-angeles-faces-imminent-outbreak-of-bubonic-plague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=191908","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Drew: Los Angeles Faces Imminent Outbreak of Bubonic Plague"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Joel B. Pollack \u2013 Breibart July 19, 2019<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Los-Angeles-going-down-the-drain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-189233\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Los-Angeles-going-down-the-drain.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Los-Angeles-going-down-the-drain.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Los-Angeles-going-down-the-drain-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Dr. Drew Pinsky said Friday that Los Angeles faces an imminent outbreak of bubonic plague because of the growth of the homeless population and the failure of state and local authorities to deal with rodent problems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Dr. Drew made his comments during a Periscope <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pscp.tv\/w\/1MnxnvQkrYOxO?t=28\">broadcast<\/a><\/strong><\/span> by <em>Dilbert<\/em>\u00a0cartoonist Scott Adams, who has become a popular political pundit with a daily live audience of thousands of people.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Talking with Dr. Drew about the Los Angeles apocalypse, then on to Trump\u2019s tweet, Iran, and coffee <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2sx040Ldj6\">https:\/\/t.co\/2sx040Ldj6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScottAdamsSays\/status\/1152216646007676931?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 19, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Dr. Drew told Adams that he had predicted the recent <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/health\/2019\/02\/01\/typhus-epidemic-spreads-in-los-angeles\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>typhus<\/strong><\/span><\/a> outbreak in Los Angeles, which was carried by rats, transferred by fleas to pets, and from pets to humans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Bubonic plague, Dr. Drew said, like typhus, is endemic to the region, and can spread to humans from rodents in a similar fashion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Though commonly recognized as the medieval disease responsible for the Black Death in the fourteenth century, which killed one-third of the population of Europe, the last <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/plague\/maps\/index.html\">outbreak<\/a><\/strong><\/span> of bubonic plague in the U.S. was nearly a century ago, from 1924 to 1925 \u2014 also in Los Angeles. Only a \u201cheroic effort\u201d by doctors stopped it, Dr. Drew recalled, warning that conditions were perfect for another outbreak of the plague in the near future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Los Angeles is one of the only cities in the country, Dr. Drew said, that has no rodent control plan. \u201cAnd if you look at the pictures of Los Angeles, you will see that the homeless encampments are surrounded by dumps. People defecate there, they throw their trash there, and the rats just proliferate there.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Moreover, he said, homeless people were defecating directly into city drains, which flowed to the Pacific Ocean. \u201cWe have the sewage of 60,000 people hitting the ocean every day,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Though there were adequate financial resources, Dr. Drew said, homelessness would not be solved by building more housing, because the fundamental problems were mental illness and drug addictions, which created an \u201cattachment to this lifestyle\u201d on the streets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The city had been successful at absorbing hundreds of thousands of \u201cundocumented immigrants,\u201d Dr. Drew observed, which showed that the focus on housing was a \u201choax.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">But changes in mental health policy \u2014 partly as a result of public reactions to films like\u00a0<em>One Flew Over the Cuckoo\u2019s Nest<\/em>, which was harshly critical of mental health institutions \u2014 had made it much more difficult to commit people to institutional care.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Dr. also said that prison reform initiatives, such as\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/local\/2018\/06\/28\/proposition-47-wins-golden-fleece-award-for-failure\/\">Proposition 47<\/a><\/strong><\/span> of 2014\u2013 which reduced sentences, but without improvements to rehabilitation \u2014 had also played a role by letting more criminals out on the street, some of whom joined the homeless population.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">And efforts at relocating the homeless \u2014 either to treatment or to prison \u2014 ran into lawsuits from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), whom Dr. Drew described as \u201cdo-gooders\u201d without any idea about how to solve the underlying problem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cHow many people must die before you change your philosophy?\u201d Dr. Drew asked, rhetorically.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Some, Dr. Drew said, said that the situation in Los Angeles was approaching a national emergency that would require the intervention of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Red Cross, and the National Guard. He said that he himself had not reached that conclusion yet, but that he was \u201cready to pull that trigger if we start to see the diseases that I think we are going to.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Recently, President Donald Trump threatened to intervene in California\u2019s growing homelessness crisis, prompting L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti and Governor Gavin Newsom to <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/07\/11\/gavin-newsom-eric-garcetti-push-back-against-trump-criticism-of-homelessness\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>push back<\/strong><\/span><\/a> \u2014 without offering any solutions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cI have a government that is ignoring the basic needs of human civilization,\u201d Dr. Drew said, exasperated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">A recent count of the homeless population<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong> <a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2019\/06\/04\/los-angeles-homeless-population-up-12-amid-affordable-housing-crisis\/1336734001\/\">revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/span> that it had risen 12% over the last year, to nearly 60,000 people. Mayor Eric Garcetti, who promised to end homelessness when he first ran for office in 2013, has failed to deal with the problem despite local tax hikes to provide additional revenues. He now faces a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/06\/19\/l-a-residents-launch-recall-of-mayor-eric-garcetti-over-homelessness\/\">recall effort<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>over his failure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/health\/2019\/07\/19\/dr-drew-pinsky-bubonic-plague-outbreak-imminent-in-los-angeles\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conditions are ripe for the disease that decimated medieval Europe to flourish again in modern Los Angeles <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":189233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Health"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191908"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191911,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191908\/revisions\/191911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/189233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}