I was under the impression that you knew him well enough to know he wasn’t evil. Apparently, you don’t know him that well enough at all. :rolleyes:
I have no control over your impressions.
FWIW, I think you’re a pretty reasonable poster. You’re able to defend an unpopular position in the Pit without melting down. I think you’d be an asset to the boards.
I’m citing your own post, in bold for your convenience. You don’t know him that well enough to know if he’s evil. You barely know him, I think is a more accurate statement.
Like this?
Come on, he’s not gonna be tarred and feathered. The other passengers will test negative for TB, and this will all be forgotten in a few months.
I believe I read that he did not, because he didn’t want to feel like a freak/call attention to himself. I am not one hundred percent positive of my source, if it was an article (and where they got that info) or if it was a Doper who’d seen an interview or what.
ETA: brazil84, we hope that is the case, but stranger things have happened.
You realize that, if true, this will be dumb luck, right?
It’s also dumb luck if your plane doesn’t crash.
If the guy was such a big hazzard, why wasn’t he put on the no-fly list pending completion of his tests? I would imagine that even a less drug-resistant strain of TB could pose a hazzard to young children; the elderly; or people who are immuno-compromised.
He isn’t particularly contagious, from what I’ve read. I’m not sure it would be dumb luck, but we may hear that he was more contagious than was previously thought.
True, but the quote I was responding to raised a question about how rough sex would have to be in order to transmit TB (paraphrase). It doesn’t matter how rough the sex is–that relates to blood borne pathogens such as HIV or HBV.
That would be why he was told not to go out of his house, to wear a mask, and not to travel, wouldn’t it? Telling the patient such things has been shown to be routine procedure by more than one Doper who has posted to this thread.
He claims that he was told early on that he wasn’t contagious.
Yes, HE claims this, but as I said, others have shown that this is not normal procedure for such cases. We have the word not only of the CDC, but also people who corroberate this via their recountings in this topic. They have added weight to the idea that the CDC is the more truthful in this matter.
No we don’t. The CDC simply said that his statement was “not accurate,” apparently without elaborating. They also objected to his apparent taping of their conversations.
To me, this means that he’s probably in the right on that point.
As far as I’m aware, planes are specifically designed not to crash. Perhaps ElvisL1ves could correct me if I’m wrong on that. If true however, that makes it not dumb luck when your plane doesn’t crash. On the other hand, TBGuy specifically took no precautions to ensure the safety of his fellow passengers. In that case, the only thing protecting those flyers is dumb luck.
I’m fairly certain that if taken to court, the CDC will produce signed papers, that will be shown to contain his signature, and be proven not to be forgaries.
ETA: The above is in response to brazil84.
ETA2: These papers will show that he, by signing them admits he was told the information outlined on the papers, which most likely will include all the precautions he was told to take.
Papers that show he was told in no uncertain terms not to travel before he left the US?
Papers that show he was told to wear a mask?
What part of:
He continued to be tested because he could have
(1) become contagious at any time;
(2) was found out to, because of continued testing, have a turbo-TB strain, which, if he became contagious, would be a world of trouble for those who he chose to expose not knowing whether or not he had moved into the contagious stage; and
(3) was strongly advised not to fly, before he left the country, and to cover his mouth*, if he even left the house*, even though he wasn’t contagious, becasue there were obviously concerns that he
(i) could become contagious to others; and
(ii) had every possibility of becoming potentially more dangerous,
are you not getting?
Planes are designed to go where the controls tell them to go. If the pilot decides he wants to fly the plane into a building, there’s a pretty good chance he will succeed in crashing the plane.
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