"His research has been oriented towards understanding health differences related to race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender, and geography"
Captain Obvious has spoken.
That's pretty much the state of most government institutions, facilities, programs, goals, objectives, and outcomes, in a modern records keeping world.
Go figure?/s
Hope he’s not patient zero of the apocalypse.
Sure sounds like a case that will end in suicide. Maybe no message, but ‘he had a lot going on’, left keys, wallet, and all at home, no foul play. He didn’t beam up anywhere. Where did he wander off to to commit suicide? Else, is something missing recently from CDC? Did he disappear?
Yep, if you read the whole story....parents got concerned and actually flew down to Atlanta. So, his car is sitting there. Keys sitting on the table. Wallet and phone are in plain view. It’s like he just walked out.
Adding to this, he does a phone-call-in for the sick excuse. For a gov’t worker, it’ll work for the first day or so, but you need to get a doctor’s note for a longer period. It appears like someone came by....that he knew, and he just called in sick and went off with the associate.
Oddly, we aren’t talking about some idiot. This guy has a doctorate degree and was considered fairly bright.
I’d be thinking some kind of drug-issue or woman-problem....but you would have taken your billfold with you.
Other thing...he left the dog there in the house. Most dog owners wouldn’t have done that so easily.
Much of the CDC is in the trendy Decatur area which is restored urban core nearby. Some nice areas not too far from real sketchy.
Last week a friend of his posted a missing notice on our neighborhood website. So sad for his family & friends.
The CDC is stuffed full of microbiologists and infectious disease experts — most of whom are geeky science types whose idea of a wild weekend is binge watching Dr. Who while buzzed on Earl Grey tea.
I’ve seen this movie.
It doesn’t end well................................
OK I read the article.
Does anyone know what he was working on? It does not say if he was an M.D., probably not because promotion to O-5 comes earlier than age 35 for them (Congress will not allow a separate M.D. pay scale for the military and PHS, so instead they go quickly to O-6. Not the way I would do it, but that’s what it is).
Agree it’s a probable suicide, but would be nice to know hat he was doing.
It would be helpful if they posted a picture.
The son of a close friend always wanted to work for the CDC. He studied and graduated at the top of his class in microbiology. He applied for and was successful at getting a position at the CDC. He moved to Atlanta. About 6 or 8 months later, I rove down the street and saw him cutting the grass at his parents’ home. I pulled over and said, “Peter, I thought you were in Atlanta.”
He replied, “It’s too dangerous working there. You only get 1 mistake and you’re dead.”
He got a job at a local pharmaceutical firm making salves.
There’s something really spooky about the roll out of this information... it hit the internet - everywhere within 2 days...
Then the suck up butt-kissers at the New York Times pick it up? Anyone get the feeling the ‘sick’ guy took some weird samples with him? Or was ‘infected’ by something? Something doesn’t add up.
I’m posting this again - which company is selling the flu vaccine this year?
CDC ping.
Yep - and those unanswered questions can be a bit worrisome...
Ping. Still know anyone over there? Any scuttlebutt?
Someone should call the FBI to look for this guy . . . .
Funny how this sound like a joke right now, but at one point, that’s what you’d do in this situation.
"His research has been oriented towards understanding health differences related to race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender, and geography"