Calling Marcus Welby! Come in Marcus Welby!
I have a feeling airfares might start to drop as the incredible story of "TB-Andrew" (a modern day Typhoid Mary if you will) continues to be played out in the media. All those references to the flights he took, and the diseases he might have spread on them, might have some folks rethinking their next travel plans if it calls for reserving a seat to go into the friendly skies!
Is there any irony in the fact that the gentleman who dashed across country borders and broke international laws to then sneak back to the USA is a lawyer (insert immigration and border control issues here)? Wait, take it one more step, Andrew Speaker is a personal injury lawyer! Imagine the lawsuits he might face for his conduct- hope he knows a good lawyer, or was he trying to create new business? Oh wait, even more, his father-in-law is a CDC'er who works on TB! And warned him of the health dangers! Don't call me Nancy Drew, but anyone think old pops may not have been fond of his daughter marrying a personal-injury lawyer? I'm just saying...
True, Andrew Speaker did travel for love, but is it really love when you are risking the health of others, better yet your to-be spouse's? I know there's that (rarely adhered to) line in most wedding vows that says "til death do we part," but I guess they may have rewritten that to say, " 'til TB do we part."
Of course, how this is being handled make me think, "wow, the gov't has come so far since FEMA and Katrina, NOT!" Since there's been suspicion about his health since early this year, why is the CDC only interested in people he flew with in May? What about all the folks he has been around since they first think he was ill? What about Atlanta? Riddle me that Joker!
Maybe Atlanta will have to be burnt again! Oh wait, we already have that (wild)fire going on!
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