21-Apr-13 World View -- Bloggers confuse 'Chechnya' 'Czech'

[John]

21-Apr-13 World View -- American bloggers confuse 'Chechnya' with 'Czech Republic'


Krugman in 2002: The Fed should create a housing bubble

** 21-Apr-13 World View -- American bloggers confuse 'Chechnya' with 'Czech Republic'
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/ ... tm#e130421



Contents:
American bloggers confuse 'Chechnya' with 'Czech Republic'
Krugman in 2002: The Fed should create a housing bubble
Hepatitis C: The hidden epidemic for the Boomer generation


Keys:
Generational Dynamics, Chechnya, Czech Republic,
Petr Gandalovic, Georgia, Milos Zeman,
Paul Krugman, CDC, Hepatitis C, Summer of Love

[CrosstimbersOkie]

Hepatitis C: The hidden epidemic for the Boomer generation

Among the ways that the deadly Hepatitis C virus spreads are using dirty drug needles, or by sharing the straws used to snort cocaine. The virus may do nothing for years after infection, and then attack the liver, causing life-threatening liver disease or liver cancer. The Hepatitis C virus is an inner-city and drug-user epidemic: Infection among IV drug users is estimated at 60 percent and in the prison population at about 50 percent. However, a startling new CDC study shows that there is a Hepatitis C epidemic in the making among the Boomer generation. During the 1960s, and especially during the 1967 "Summer of Love," many teen Boomers experimented with sex and drugs. Even one experiment with drugs can be enough to be infected with the virus, and now many of these Boomers are developing liver disease, requiring a liver transplant. According to one researcher:

"This is an iceberg problem. We see only a small part of the problem now -- the tip, those ill or needing liver transplants -- and that's very frightening. But probably 10 times that number have an underlying, smoldering disease and are asymptomatic. And most of these people are walking around without a clue they're infected."
Boomers are now considered to be a "high risk group" for Hepatitis C, and are encouraged to be screened for the virus.

Don't worry Boomers. Obama's health care reform will take care of all those liver transplants I'm sure.

But, where will all those livers come from?

[Enosi]

A liver tax of course. It would only be fair to spread the "health" around.

[CrosstimbersOkie]

That, or a British style 'death panel,' wherein once an old Boomer achieves a certain age they simply don't receive health care anymore.

But hey, it's free. So no one should have any cause for complaint.