Did California plastic bag ban result in San Diego's current hepatitis outbreak?
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Re: Did California plastic bag ban result in San Diego's current hepatitis outbreak?
#2Seems like a good opportunity to design and distribute plastic bags specifically for people poops (sort of like the bags for dog poops).
Re: Did California plastic bag ban result in San Diego's current hepatitis outbreak?
#3Related: Plastic Bag Ban Responsible For Spike In E. Coli Infections, Study Says
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/07/plastic-bag-ban_n_2...
Re: Did California plastic bag ban result in San Diego's current hepatitis outbreak?
#4Seems like a good opportunity to design and distribute plastic bags specifically for people poops (sort of like the bags for dog poops).
from the article, that seems to be exactly what some of the groups are doing. I have to believe there's a better way to deal with this but I'm not sure what it is. I know other places (notably europe) it's more common to have public restrooms but I don't know how they deal with the problems associated with them (perceived or real).
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#5How many public health crises in the USA can be boiled down to "the USA fails to provide a safety net that ensures a certain standard of living"? If this plastic-bag hypothesis bears out, it'll be yet another.
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#6Does it seem to anybody else that having widely available public restrooms would be a way better (including way more hygienic) way to address this issue?
Re: Did California plastic bag ban result in San Diego's current hepatitis outbreak?
#7No. Lack of universal health care and a proper social safety net resulted in the Hepatitis outbreak.
Hepatitis can be prevented through vaccination, which a universal health care system would provide. Through treatment, which a universal health care system would provide. And proper sanitary conditions, which taking care of people so they don't have to live on the streets would provide.
Re: Did California plastic bag ban result in San Diego's current hepatitis outbreak?
#8Seems like a good opportunity to design and distribute plastic bags specifically for people poops (sort of like the bags for dog poops).
Unfortunately, the plastic bag ban is only a side effect of the real problem. California has a homeless problem and there aren't enough resources made available in California to address this. The homeless don't have access to resources to readily dispose of waste.
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#9Does it seem to anybody else that having widely available public restrooms would be a way better (including way more hygienic) way to address this issue?
But nobody wants to build (and keep clean) a bathroom in their backyard (the for homeless people is implied). And anyone who did would have protests from their neighbors.
Lava Mae addressed this by building portable showers out of old buses (to the tune of ~$1M per bus) and trailers (cheaper).
Re: Did California plastic bag ban result in San Diego's current hepatitis outbreak?
#10Does it seem to anybody else that having widely available public restrooms would be a way better (including way more hygienic) way to address this issue?
I would include public showers, and public baths like some parts of France.
Edit: Actually wouldn't public washrooms, showers, and baths help everyone in that if they are located frequently enough, businesses wouldn't have to be built with public washrooms in mind, or pay for the cost of cleaning and maintenance. They would have to pay for the public washrooms through taxes though.