little things
US Airways flight 1829. We were about to take off, and the woman directly behind me starts saying, increasingly loudly, that she's feeling really sick and she's probably going to hurl.
I hand her a barf bag from the seat-back pocket. She's like "I'm gonna hurl! And I just got back from Nigeria! ..."
She's hustled up to the lavatory in the front of the plane, where she presumably throws up. I can't see from my seat.
Then silence for a long time. An asshole towards the front of the plane is repeatedly yelling that they should get her off the plane.
More silence. We're waiting for like two hours. There are periodic announcements that they're waiting for the "health department" (CDC?) to make an announcement and we all have to stay on the plane until then. At some point, paramedics come, which I can't really see. There's an ambulance pulled up along side the plane, and another truck.
This is all fine, sure. Gotta be careful!
Then they announce over the PA: "The woman who got sick has definitely not left the country recently. And she certainly does not have Ebola."
Later revised: "She has definitely not been to any countries recently that have had problems with Ebola..."
... that's pretty brazen. That's just a straight-faced lie. She saw fit to announce that she'd been to Nigeria immediately before hurling.
The delay, I don't mind so much. It's the lie. That's pretty toxic to a society. How are we supposed to trust anybody in a position of authority?
I hand her a barf bag from the seat-back pocket. She's like "I'm gonna hurl! And I just got back from Nigeria! ..."
She's hustled up to the lavatory in the front of the plane, where she presumably throws up. I can't see from my seat.
Then silence for a long time. An asshole towards the front of the plane is repeatedly yelling that they should get her off the plane.
More silence. We're waiting for like two hours. There are periodic announcements that they're waiting for the "health department" (CDC?) to make an announcement and we all have to stay on the plane until then. At some point, paramedics come, which I can't really see. There's an ambulance pulled up along side the plane, and another truck.
This is all fine, sure. Gotta be careful!
Then they announce over the PA: "The woman who got sick has definitely not left the country recently. And she certainly does not have Ebola."
Later revised: "She has definitely not been to any countries recently that have had problems with Ebola..."
... that's pretty brazen. That's just a straight-faced lie. She saw fit to announce that she'd been to Nigeria immediately before hurling.
The delay, I don't mind so much. It's the lie. That's pretty toxic to a society. How are we supposed to trust anybody in a position of authority?