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| upcoaster | Posted – 6/1/2007 11:59:34 AM | show profile Anyone else wondering how long this story will take to unravel and much incompetence it will expose? The guy's new father-in-law is a TB expert at the CDC -- and those two didn't have a long chat about the diagnosis -- and the flight he was about to take (for the wedding)? US agents waved him though the Canadian border on his rush-rush trip home even though he was using his own passport and had been identified as the carrier of a dread disease? And this is the government safeguarding us against terror? |
| Iron Eagle | Posted – 6/1/2007 12:38:03 PM | show profile he just had a minor cough... |
| upcoaster | Posted – 6/1/2007 8:58:29 PM | show profile Uh, whatever. By the time the guy was in Rome he'd been tagged by US officials as someone who was carrying a drug-resistant strain of a deadly disease. The CDC asked him to stay put. Being an American, he did what he wanted and flew home via Canada. A US official looked at his passport and waved him though in spite of that. |
| UGoGirl | Posted – 6/1/2007 9:51:48 PM | show profile The guy's an idiot, can't be inconvenienced, to hell with the other 500 or so people he may have infected. Lawyers....!!!! |
| Swingshift | Posted – 6/2/2007 8:15:18 PM | show profile He should be fined and jailed. Everything he's done was completely premeditated. He actually had his lawyer father videotape his doctor because he at least did have some concern. It was just concern for his own liability. When he was finally tracked down by the CDC and told to check himself into a hospital in Italy, he and his fiancé booked a flight to Canada so they could avoid the no-fly order on him. Then they drove home exposing who knows who else along the way. All this so he wouldn?t get stuck in Italy for an extended amount of time. And now he makes an insincere public apology to save face. He knew exactly what he was doing every step of the way. |
| Stanley_Milgram | Posted – 6/3/2007 7:37:21 AM | show profile the guy is a commercial for a new TB screening test that is coming out. His father "coincidentally" is a TB expert. And he takes a round the world trip "spreading" the germ. Real or not, could I be the only one who suspects this episode is contrived? |
| Stanley_Milgram | Posted – 6/3/2007 7:37:59 AM | show profile father-in-law, i meant |
| UGoGirl | Posted – 6/3/2007 7:46:34 PM | show profile Yeah, what are the chances. The guy gets TB (how often does THAT happen) and his father-in-law just happens to be a TB expert. Something just doesn't add up. |
