Andrew Speaker - Why Should We Forgive You?
You are an educated man. You received your education at the taxpayer-supported United States Naval Academy, and you apparently didn't learn what I learned in grade school - that spreading disease is bad. I want my money back. We should all receive a refund from you for that wasted education. Or you should be put on a one-man submarine without medical treatment on permanent patrol in the Straits of Hormuz as your permanent penance to the American people.
Mr. Speaker - you received training in law at a topflight educational institution. You were trained to ask questions. I find it completely disingenuous that you did not think ask why your doctor said you should not fly.
Have you never flown before, Mr. Speaker? Have you never experienced hours of lingering body odors caused by the fact that an airplane is a sealed-air environment - with the potential that you were sharing your little bundle of air-borne death with everyone on that plane?
Mr. Speaker, anyone with access to a computer and the internet can type in the word tuberculosis on any search engine and find out what this disease entails. Do you seriously want us to believe that you did not? And more importantly - if you did not, why not?
Mr. Speaker - instead of asking the people telling you not to fly once you were in Europe what you should do, who you admit you had contact with, you chose to smuggle yourself back into the United States through Canada. I'm sure your actions have just thrilled to death our neighbors to the north. Figuratively, if not literally.
At the bare minimum, you have caused untold anxiety for everyone who was on every plane you chose to use. Add to that the anxiety you have caused for their families, and for everyone those people have come into contact with since your blatantly selfish act. The number of people you affected number in the hundreds.
Mr. Speaker, I hope you get to spend the rest of your life defending yourself from the personal injury lawsuits I hope are being prepared against you on two continents.
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Post a CommentIn reply to Elaine ~ 'barely contagious' does not mean 'not contagious'. The media brought his behaviour to light because it needed to be. The fact that 'not a single case of TB has been contracted while on a flight' doesn't mean that it couldn't be. I doubt you'd be so blase about it if you'd been on one of those flights yourself.
Elaine - that's a great bet. Let's start with you paying for all of the expenses created by this egregious act of selfish behavior associated with his 'barely contagious' contact with hundreds of people who are being a) tracked down; and, b) tested. Then observed.
Mr. Speaker didn't cause the anxiety, the news media did. They spread paranoia and anger and ignored the fact that not a single case of TB has been contracted while on a flight. TB requires long term exposure within confined space, like in hospitals, prisons, and homeless shelters. Speaker's TB was barely contagious. So barely contagious that I'm willing to bet money no one will get sick from the flights.