Watch: Man Jokes About Having Ebola, Gets Ripped Off a Plane By Men in Hazmat Suits

Town Hall.com ^ | Video October 8, 2014 copied to Town Hall 10/10/14 | Katie Pavlich

[Impala64ssa]

If you're going to be flying soon and plan on making an Ebola joke, don't. Yesterday at an airport in the Dominican Republic, a man who joked about having Ebola and recently visiting West Africa was taken off a flight from Philadelphia by men in blue hazmat suits. Before the men boarded the plane, a flight attendant warned passengers things would "look worse than they really are."

"Once we landed in Punta Cana we were told by the flight attendants that there was a situation and that a passenger may have been in Africa and had Ebola. She was certain it was a hoax but they did not take any chances and had a full hazmat crew board the plane and take the passenger off. It was later confirmed that the passenger was never in Africa and after 2hrs we were finally able to get off the plane," the caption on a a video posted by Patrick Narvaez and Jukin Media states.

So, the guy who joked about having Ebola was ripped off a plane by guys wearing hazmat suits, yet the CDC would argue the people who were on the plane sitting next to him would have been totally fine if he in fact did have Ebola. Makes sense.

Meanwhile, CDC Director Tom Friedman is out with an op-ed today tripling down on his position that travel restrictions from Ebola stricken countries should not be implemented.

[MV=PY]

"The take away from this one is be careful who you sit next to, FEDGOV is not on our side."

Sounds great. How do you do that?

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On the plus side they didn't take him off the plane and beat the living ca-rap out of him.

I think that's a plus, anyway.

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

[Idaho_Cowboy]

If Rush hasn’t made it official he should. Undeniable Truth of Life #64: The government does not have a sense of humor especially sarcasm or irony.

[yldstrk]

So did this assh8le get assessed at a hospital and does he have ebola? Where is the rest of the story?

[gitmo]

And why was the guy removed without putting him in a containment suit? And what about his luggage? Could it be contaminated?