TB or not TB
More wierd news.
A guy with drug-resistant TB boards a plane after being told not to as he could infect others. He was trying to return to the US to save his own life (in his opinion) as it was more important than the people he put at risk.
He is a lawyer.
He flew to Canada and slipped across the border.
What is going on?
A guy with drug-resistant TB boards a plane after being told not to as he could infect others. He was trying to return to the US to save his own life (in his opinion) as it was more important than the people he put at risk.
He is a lawyer.
He flew to Canada and slipped across the border.
What is going on?
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He was diagnosed prior to ever leaving the US. He claims he did not know he was contagious, before he left. This is strange, given that TB is contagious in general. He may not have known it was XTB, but he knew he had TB. Also, his father in-law is a researcher with the CDC....involved in TB research!
Next, he was contacted and warned in Rome by the CDC and told to get treatment and NOT FLY. He realizes he will not be allowed to fly into the US, so he flies to Prague, then to Montreal to avoid the US no-fly list and drives across the border to the US. Then he has the nerve to claim he did not know he was contagious.
This jackass is a personal injury lawyer. I hope he gets sued into deep dark hole and is left financially ruined. He deserves it for so callously risking so many peoples lives because of his own selfishness.
Whacko. (He's a lawyer, what do we expect?)
Sue him into oblivion. Indeed, the pasengers and airline for his return flight have every right to sue for reckless endangerment or something like that. Each of them.
I¥'ll bet international airlines will soon start placing statements in their contracts about passengers with communicable diseases.
This jackass is a personal injury lawyer. I hope he gets sued into deep dark hole and is left financially ruined. He deserves it for so callously risking so many peoples lives because of his own selfishness.
I hope he dies, painfully, as is expected. ANd in the news he's made out to be a victim. Of what? His own arrogance and stupidity?
So if he is guilty of something I think it is only of coming back. He would have had to pay $140,000 for a private flight (a year's salary) or take the risk of not getting the proper medical treatment in Denver. If the guy wasn't feeling sick for the last few months and wasn't feeling sick now and was told that it only spreads when you have active symptoms, then I could maybe see him taking a 1/1000 chance of possibly infecting someone else on the plane.
His behavior is utterly without consideration for anyone other than himself, not only his initial decision to go to Europe against advice and most certainly his decision to take a wandering path home. He is an extremely selfish individual who cares little about the impact of his actions on others. If rather it had been the guy sitting next to him on the plane who was sick, he would probably have already filed a suit. The health authorities also seem to have to hound him, even when he is, according to him, scared for his life.
His wedding also seems to have been a bit of a sham - though again, he has "proof" that blah blah blah. He has plenty of proof that he is OK, which leads me to believe he was really trying to cover his ass - almost straight out of a Columbo movie. One would think a lawyer could do better.
If anyone on his flights or route gets TB and dies, especially on the latter legs, I hope they put him away for murder.