To Schools
By: Chris Holbrook
The epidemic of the highly infectious strain of prison
Staphylococcus has spread from the Pennsylvania state
prisons to schools and county jails. When
we published our first article about MRSA (for
"Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureaus") , we were
only aware of cases in the filthy state prisons - and there were
plenty on them! We feared the disease would spread.
Reports now indicate that the dangerous, sometimes fatal infection has indeed spread. The Pittsburgh area is especially hard-hit by this type of Staph. Almost a hundred cases have already been reported. Nobody seems to know how many cases have gone unreported, likely several hundreds. Prisoners and a few guards at the Allegheny County, Pennsylvania jail in Pittsburgh have been stricken. Even more alarmingly, a number of cases have been reported in area schools. Children have been hospitalized. MRSA is a highly contagious infection. It generally attacks through the skin leaving large open sores. The disease is immune to most antibiotics and medications. Frequently, it must be dug out surgically. That leaves ugly scars. Even surgery often fails. Once contracted, the disease typically affects the whole body. The heart is sometimes damaged as is the brain. Prison guards seldom have to worry about brain damage. The infection is spread through direct physical contact with infected persons or with bacteria on filthy surfaces. The Pennsylvania state prison system is afraid to keep things clean. The guards are afraid of having effective cleaning agents in the prisons. The guards treat prisoners so badly that they tremble from the prospect that prisoners may retaliate by throwing cleaning chemicals on them. It doesn't really happen, but the guards are pussies. It's not unusual for there to be a connection between prisons and public schools. Typically, oppressive practices, punishments, searches and similar violations of personal liberties are tested first in the prisons. If the neo-Nazis get away with the abuses with prisoners (and they generally do), they carry them on into the public schools. Generally they start with the predominantly minority schools. Nobody seem to care what abuses the black and Hispanic kids suffer. From that garden, the abuses are quickly expanded to the general public. What's being done to prisoners today will shortly be done to persons in the "free" society. The more the conservatives and Republicans hold power, the quicker liberties vanish. Prisoners and their families are cautioned to keep as clean as possible. Wash your hands after all physical contact with others. Prisoners who are compelled to share tiny cells with others find it almost impossible to avoid contact. Now school children and their parents must also be cautious of MRSA inferctions. Just try to keep a kid clean! You have the Pennsylvania Prisons to thank for the epidemic. It's filthy and VERY badly managed. If your kid is unfortunate enough to contract MRSA, you can trace it back to the cowardly prison guards. They're afraid of cleaning chemicals. Perhaps guys like "Mr. e" should simply treat prisoners less badly - or get jobs as hairdressers.
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