{"id":58919,"date":"2016-05-25T05:00:43","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T10:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58919"},"modified":"2016-05-24T21:21:17","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T02:21:17","slug":"a-fine-line-between-experiment-and-lunacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58919","title":{"rendered":"A Fine Line Between Experiment And Lunacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Immigrants are good for Minnesota: they bring us exciting new possibilities, interesting insights, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2016\/05\/17\/22-resettled-refugees-minnesota-tested-positive-tuberculosis\/\"><span class=\"s2\">exotic diseases such as tuberculosis.<\/span><\/a> <\/span><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u201cAn alternative public health policy\u2013one that the United States used for decades in the latter part of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century\u2013is to test immigrants and refugees for infectious disease before they are allowed into the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">In that earlier era, those who tested positive were sent home. Today, however, many are welcomed in and pose a risk of infecting the rest of the American population.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">So \u2013 is America a melting pot, or is it a Petri dish?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">Find a fondue joint.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">See if there aren&#8217;t health and safety standards for\u00a0<em>them<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Then let&#8217;s talk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Immigrants are good for Minnesota: they bring us exciting new possibilities, interesting insights, exotic diseases such as tuberculosis. \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cAn alternative public health policy\u2013one that the United States used for decades in the latter part of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century\u2013is to test immigrants and refugees for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc","category-sovereignty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58920,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58919\/revisions\/58920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}