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- From: cliftonr@netcom.com (Pope Clifton)
- Subject: Re: **BIZARRE LAWS***
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.022916.4966@netcom.com>
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 02:29:16 GMT
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- Christopher S. Chidsey (bj159@cleveland.Freenet.Edu) wrote:
- :
- : >This is not a stupid law when you've got an epidemic
- : >of disease spread by saliva.
- :
- :
- : That's a good point, but at this time there isn't. But that's
- : not saying that there won't ever be one.
-
- Actually, there is now an epidemic of drug-resistant tuberculosis
- spreading in New York and several other inner city areas in the U.S.
- TB _is_ spread by saliva, and can be just as lethal as it was last
- century, if you get one of the drug-immune strains. We may yet see
- a return to enforcement of those spitting laws.
- If we don't all get wiped out by some viral hemorrhagic fever first.
-
- -- Clifton
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