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Jun. 1st, 2007 10:09 pmI don't know how many of you have been following the story about the fellow who, knowing he had a case of tuberculosis, flew off to Europe against CDC recommendations, and then, after being told not to take another commercial flight, flew back from Europe to Canada, then rented a car and drove across the border back to the US.
I call bullshit, dude. You knew you had TB, and needed specialized treatment for it before you left the country, and elected to take a commercial flight anyway. Even if you'd been told that you weren't likely to be contagious, that still put a number of people at potential risk. Then, when the Centre for Disease Control contacted you while you were in Europe and told you to get to a local clinic and not to take another commercial flight, you disregarded their directive and did so anyway- even though you couldn't fly back into the US because they has Immigration and Border Control put you on a warning list.
You should feel awful, Mr. Speaker. That sort of selfish, blatant disregard for others takes asshattery to all new heights. When they finish your treatment, you should consider yourself lucky if no one comes up with a way to charge you with some sort of crime for complicit negligence in transporting pathogens risking the health and well-being of potentially hundreds of people.
"I feel awful," Andrew Speaker said, speaking through a mask on anAmerican television morning show, at his hospital room in Denver. "I've lived in this state of constant fear and anxiety and exhaustion for a week now, and to think that someone else is now feeling that, I wouldn't want anyone to feel that way.
"I don't expect those people to ever forgive me. I just hope they understand that I truly never meant them any harm."
I call bullshit, dude. You knew you had TB, and needed specialized treatment for it before you left the country, and elected to take a commercial flight anyway. Even if you'd been told that you weren't likely to be contagious, that still put a number of people at potential risk. Then, when the Centre for Disease Control contacted you while you were in Europe and told you to get to a local clinic and not to take another commercial flight, you disregarded their directive and did so anyway- even though you couldn't fly back into the US because they has Immigration and Border Control put you on a warning list.
You should feel awful, Mr. Speaker. That sort of selfish, blatant disregard for others takes asshattery to all new heights. When they finish your treatment, you should consider yourself lucky if no one comes up with a way to charge you with some sort of crime for complicit negligence in transporting pathogens risking the health and well-being of potentially hundreds of people.
