Posted on 11/25/2010 8:37:40 AM PST by RaceBannon
RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINES
Doctors sound TSA germ alert Dangers include syphilis, lice, viruses, ringworm
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: November 24, 2010 9:09 pm Eastern
By Bob Unruh © 2010 WorldNetDaily
Syphilis, lice, gonorrhea, ringworm, chlamydia, staph, strep, noro and papilloma viruses all are part of the possible fringe benefits when airline passengers next go through a full hands-on pat-down by agents of the federal government's Transportation Security Administration, according to doctors.
WND reported two days ago on alarmed passengers who noted that TSA agents doing the pat-downs that have been described by critics as molestation since they include touching private body parts were not changing gloves between passengers. In fact, some apparently were patting down dozens of passengers or more wearing the same gloves.
But neither the TSA nor federal agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control was willing to comment on the possibilities that infections and other loathsome afflictions could be passed from passenger to passenger.
Now two doctors – and several others – have confirmed that there is the definite possibility that passengers will be able to catch whatever someone in front of them in line was suffering from via the latex gloves TSA workers use.
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Goes to show the great minds hired at the Cabinet level by this man-child that is FKING up this country to no end. Even the DU crowed is apoplectic about this entire issue.
Syphillis? Seriously? How does that work? Btw, the gloves are not latex.
Better put Clinton in charge of investigating this. He knows more about STDs than anyone else.
Gross, gross, gross! The behavior described in the article is what I’ve also seen at some fast-food “restaurants”: someone with gloves picks something up off the floor, then resumes preparing and serving food, without first changing the gloves. What in the world were the gloves for?
Its about friggin time... best way for a terrorist to spread havoc now is to simply pepper himself with a deadly biochemical agent, and TSA does the rest. I’m surprised they haven’t already done it. Make TSA change gloves with every grope and we’ll see the end of this present attempt at police state indoctrinating of the masses.
I posted this concern on an Alzheimer’s website that I read. It also gives no concerns as to how people with memory impairment are managed.
They do change after every grope. If you’ve been to the airport lately, you may notice there are actually very few grope downs.
I’d certainly ask that they change gloves if they don’t do it automatically—they are supposed to.
not after each baggae handling, they sure dont!
I just flew Friday last week, and NOT ONE changed gloves before me or after me!
I don’t know about baggage handling, interesting question.
But I’d insist on fresh gloves! That merits asking for a supervisor, for sure.
I fly maybe just a few times a year... and I like it mush less with each year... damn right, I’ll demand that the groper change gloves, I’m sure I’ll get groped, older white guy...
I have seen that as well..I once saw a kid take payment for the meal, use the cash register and then go back to making sandwiches..
Sooo, is “keep your filthy hands off me!!!” gonna fly?
What I find most disturbing about the enhanced TSA screening is that it is not a temporary measure that we must endure until terrorism is defeated. It is a permanent intrusion on our liberties that will only get worse over time because we have no plan for victory. Hell, our government won’t even name our enemy or say the word victory!
Physicians, dentists, nurses, and other health workers **WASH** their **HANDS** and change gloves between patients! The TSA workers **must** do the same to prevent the spread of contagious diseases.
Geeze! I have already had one MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ) infection already. I don't need another given to me compliments of a government functionary.
By the way, I had double knee replacements last March. I will be flying this Wednesday. This should be interesting.
Start a rumor that the bedbug infestation is being spread by the TSA throughout the country!
I watched a butcher at Whole Foods pick his nose with his gloved hand. I said I would have to come back later (when that butcher got off work) because I just couldn’t decided right now. ;D
Considering that even needlesticks with HIV infected needles rarely pass along infection, I think the transmission rates for these other maladies will be very low, too.
Probably more school children will bring home head lice from school than will passengers receive illnesses from pat downs.
Think about this; if something is one in a million and then the odds double you now have two in a million. So what? Times ten is still only ten in a million. How many behaviors do you alter because your chances go from one in a million to two or even ten in a million?
So instead of airline security, all we get is a case of the crabs? And this is coming to train and bus stations in a neighborhood near you? Oh boy...
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