I'VE NOTED BEFORE that "public health" folks seem to have gotten more interested in political crusading than in, you know, public health. Here's another example:
Rats! New York City has become a national laughingstock.
Indeed, while Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden has kept busy as a beaver designing new paradigms for public health - databanks for diabetics and trans-fatless fast food - the rats have been running amok.
That's rats as in Rattus norvegicus - a legendary dispenser of disgusting diseases and the bane of traditional practitioners of public health for centuries.
Video footage of Rattus - a whole herd of them - flitting about a Village fast-food joint made national news last week.
Before they start with their bureaucrat-empowering agenda of 21st-century health initiatives, maybe they should get a handle on the 19th-century health problems first. . . .
