Summary of Bloodborne Pathogen related history

President Nixon takes credit for signing the Occupational and Safety Act (OSHA) on December 29, 1970.

An impetus to turn bloody death scenes into cash cows did not follow until after 1984. First, a national plague needed to scare Americans. Then blood's genuine hazards among medical workers needed a mystifying narrative for biohazard cleanup companies to come. That's when a multimillion dollar biohazard cleanup company sprang from practically nowhere.

Human Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV) grew for a number of years while the United States Government ignored its presence. President Reagan declared HIV belonged to the "homosexual lifestyle." Religious leaders around the country condemned homosexuality as deviant and the cause of HIV. It was "Satin's" work. As a result HIV's spread continued.

Then, in 1984 the first reported needle stick infecting a nurse with HIV caused a national alarm. This single incident brought a sense of urgency to medical workers throughout the United States. In 1987, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) wrote that six cases of occupationally acquired HIV infection occurred in the U.S.

Finally, in 1987 a large healthcare worker union petitioned our Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). With its power given through the U.S. Department of Labor with authority over employers, OSHA required healthcare employers to upgrade protective measures provided to employees.

Among these protective measures included Universal Precautions, which stated that all blood must be considered infected with bloodborne pathogens. To this day, the OSHA Bloodborne Pathogens Standard (BPS) remains the principal authority protecting U.S. workers.

By the time President Obama reached the presidency, Universal Precautions came to apply to any workers reasonably expected to be around blood. By this time the biohazard cleanup industry had grown to many companies, incorporated and otherwise.

Individual companies charge enormous amounts of money. Enormous fee to remove, demolish, contain, and transport just about anything contaminated by blood and OPIM created rapid growth and competition.

The Internet soon began to reflect competing companies. Water damage restoration companies, carpet cleaning companies, construction companies, mortuaries, police officers, coroners' employees, medical examiner employees, fire fighters, and others soon joined the ranks of biohazard cleanup companies.

Metaphorically, blood became gold with official recognition that bloodborne pathogens threatened United States workers. A gold rush lured thousands to death's cleanup.

As happens in other areas of life in the United States, civil servants soon found tons of money in crony relationships. County employees referring family survivors of violent crimes, violent suicides, and unattended deaths became targets for.

Civil servants monopoly over who gets to clean after homicides, suicides, and unattended deaths is nearly failsafe. Since only coroners and medical examiners have legal authority to investigate sudden deaths and unrecognizable cadavers, their assistants have first contact, the only "official" contact, with grieving families and friends. A reasonable reader will guess what follows.

It did not take long before county employees connected the dots between administrating after death issues and body moving, to becoming biohazard cleanup companies, if not brokers. Not only death's administrators take part in brokering biohazard cleanup work. Other civil servants like homicide detectives take part in crime scene cleanup cronyism.