Stupid is as stupid does
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070530/ap_on_he_me/tuberculosis_infection_42
"The man told the Journal-Constitution he was in Rome during his honeymoon when the CDC notified him of the new tests and told him to turn himself in to Italian authorities to be isolated and be treated. The CDC told him he couldn't fly aboard commercial airliners.
'I thought to myself: You're nuts. I wasn't going to do that. They told me I had been put on the no-fly list and my passport was flagged,' the man said.
He told the newspaper he and his wife decided to sneak back into the U.S. through Canada. He said he voluntarily went to a New York hospital, then was flown by the CDC to Atlanta.
He is not facing prosecution, health officials said.
'I'm a very well-educated, successful, intelligent person,' he told the paper. 'This is insane to me that I have an armed guard outside my door when I've cooperated with everything other than the whole solitary-confinement-in-Italy thing.'"
WTF? Nah, there's no reason to guard him; he's well-educated, successful, and intelligent! And carrying an incredibly deadly version of TB. Two things become appararent to me: One, he's never heard of Typhoid Mary; and two, "well-educated, successful, and intelligent" translates, in his case, to clueless, selfish, and inconsiderate. If one, just one, person comes up positive from exposure to him, he should be prosecuted. For crissakes, it's a felony to fuck someone without a condom if you know you have AIDS and haven't told the unprotected partner. Why should this be any different?
"The man told the Journal-Constitution he was in Rome during his honeymoon when the CDC notified him of the new tests and told him to turn himself in to Italian authorities to be isolated and be treated. The CDC told him he couldn't fly aboard commercial airliners.
'I thought to myself: You're nuts. I wasn't going to do that. They told me I had been put on the no-fly list and my passport was flagged,' the man said.
He told the newspaper he and his wife decided to sneak back into the U.S. through Canada. He said he voluntarily went to a New York hospital, then was flown by the CDC to Atlanta.
He is not facing prosecution, health officials said.
'I'm a very well-educated, successful, intelligent person,' he told the paper. 'This is insane to me that I have an armed guard outside my door when I've cooperated with everything other than the whole solitary-confinement-in-Italy thing.'"
WTF? Nah, there's no reason to guard him; he's well-educated, successful, and intelligent! And carrying an incredibly deadly version of TB. Two things become appararent to me: One, he's never heard of Typhoid Mary; and two, "well-educated, successful, and intelligent" translates, in his case, to clueless, selfish, and inconsiderate. If one, just one, person comes up positive from exposure to him, he should be prosecuted. For crissakes, it's a felony to fuck someone without a condom if you know you have AIDS and haven't told the unprotected partner. Why should this be any different?