ViceZilla’s Views

The Atlanta man, knowing he had TB, decided to travel to Europe for his honeymoon, then upon learning of his impending quarantine and confinement by Italian health authorities, he fled back to the U.S. on a dangerous “country hopping” trip.

This man, who authorities refuse to name, has endangered the health of countless innocent and unsuspecting travelers because of his ignorance and selfishness by exposing them to an extremely contagious disease, which he knew he was infected with.

Now health authorities in several European countries, Canada, and the U.S. are scrambling to locate people he may have come in contact with during his trip to notify them to get tested for the infectious disease.

The man who is now in isolation in an Atlanta hospital receiving treatment, is puzzled why there is an armed guard standing outside his hospital room, saying “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,”

Because you have shown a total disrespect for human health, and have fled before knowing that you are contagious is why you have an armed guard at your door you dip-wad!

Unfortunately the man has been diagnosed with extensive drug-resistant TB, or XDR TB. Treatment requires 18 to two years of a mixture of four to six drugs, may require surgery, and cost upwards of $500,000 per patient. Try explaining that to a tourist or businessman who was unknowingly sitting beside him on a transatlantic flight from Europe to Canada fleeing from health authorities in Europe. And he wonders why there is an armed guard at his door.

This man should be punished for his actions of the potential infection of countless lives because of his selfishness and ignorance. How about paying the hospital bills of everyone he infected with TB? At $500,000 a person, that would be a penalty that would be a constant, life long lesson.

On the plus side though, this man exposed severe vulnerabilities in the Government’s Border Protection protocols because even though his passport was “flagged”, and he was put on a no-fly list, he still managed to fly from Rome to Prague, to Montreal, and then drive across the U.S. border to New York without being detected by the U.S. Border Patrol Agents!

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