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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

Posted on 10/10/2014 9:05:54 PM PDT by 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.


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KEYWORDS: dominicanrepub; ebola
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Video at link. Whoo's the bigger scmuck? The dumba** who pulled this stunt on the plane, or CDC Director Tom Friedman for still refusing to take appropriate action?
1 posted on 10/10/2014 9:05:55 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
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To: Impala64ssa

Little Tommy “The BIG Gulp Killer” Frieden creeps me out every time I see him shooting off his mouth on the tube. He sure doesn’t inspire much confidence that the government knows what the hell it is doing.


2 posted on 10/10/2014 9:13:07 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Got Ebola? Come to America! Die and have the family sue whitey.)
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To: 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...
Ping...

A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread

3 posted on 10/10/2014 9:13:27 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Impala64ssa

We utterly live is a ‘disconnected’ country.

Wa DC is the cockpit of our national ‘plane’, if you were to poke through the cockpit door at 35,000 ft, you would find no one at the controls.


4 posted on 10/10/2014 9:14:27 PM PDT by LibFreeUSA
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To: Impala64ssa

“I ain’t from Afica-$hit”.

70% of the people who waste space on this planet are idiots.


5 posted on 10/10/2014 9:14:35 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: Impala64ssa
I'd have to say WHO is the bigger schmuck, for not acting on the whole outbreak sooner.

As for Friedman and the prankster, stake 'em out with a large anthill between them and let the bugs decide...

6 posted on 10/10/2014 9:15:31 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Impala64ssa

Sort of like making hijack jokes in an airport shortly after 9/11. It was a good way to get a free one way trip to Cuba.


7 posted on 10/10/2014 9:16:11 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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To: Impala64ssa
What about the other folks on the flight? If they were so worried about this idiot having Ebola, why were the rest of the passengers not put under quarantine? CDC would argue the people who were on the plane sitting next to him would have been totally fine

BS

8 posted on 10/10/2014 9:20:48 PM PDT by doc1019
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To: doc1019

If there was no chance of fellow passenger catching Ebola from this passenger, why were those taking this idiot off the plane wearing containment suits?


9 posted on 10/10/2014 9:33:20 PM PDT by doc1019
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To: Bubba_Leroy

That was the first thing that came to my mind.

This guy is evidently not the sharpest knife in the drawer.


10 posted on 10/10/2014 9:33:26 PM PDT by berdie
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To: Impala64ssa

Frieden is by far the bigger dumbass. The guy on the plane only scared and inconvenienced a few people, but Frieden will wind up killing millions because of his stupidity, lack of integrity and criminal negligence for enabling an arrogant and purely political little boy to play with all of our lives. Comparisons to Admiral Kimmel would be inadequate at best, especially since Kimmel may have simply been a scapegoat for his boss’ failures.


11 posted on 10/10/2014 9:57:51 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: Impala64ssa

during the SARS ridiculousness back in 2003, I was in Hong Kong and joked (obviously) that my wife, he was having allergies, may have SARS.

Busybody women she knew spread the rumor, and within 1 day, the principal of my kids’ school called to tell them not to attend for a week or so.


12 posted on 10/10/2014 10:00:49 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Ancesthntr

The thing I don’t understand and am ticked off about is why in the heck we don’t have a comprehensive plan in place.

Just wait till flu season hits...it will be a nightmare.


13 posted on 10/10/2014 10:09:56 PM PDT by berdie
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To: Blue Jays
CDC Director Tom Friedman is a very well-educated idiot.
He is also a sociopath for his failure to support commonsense actions like HALTING travel to/from Ebola "hotzone" countries.

14 posted on 10/10/2014 10:24:03 PM PDT by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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To: LibFreeUSA

DC, as in the District of Criminals, are just keeping it real!


15 posted on 10/10/2014 10:30:58 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Impala64ssa

+1 to the lady holding her sweater over her face....LOL


16 posted on 10/10/2014 10:38:07 PM PDT by mykroar (Let justice be done though the heavens should fall. - John Adams)
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To: Impala64ssa

17 posted on 10/10/2014 10:46:43 PM PDT by Brother Cracker (You are more likely to find krugerrands in a Cracker Jack box than 22 ammo at Wal-Mart)
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To: Impala64ssa

Had a diabetic have a problem on a flight from MSY to MIA.

Had to land in Tampa to save 20 minutes, lest the idiot expire.

Can only imagine what the attendants had to go through on this one, and because of a joke?

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


18 posted on 10/10/2014 10:48:07 PM PDT by Rome2000
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To: Brother Cracker

If the hazmat guys turned up inside a plane I was on, I’d cover myself as best I could, too. It’s probably automatic, but her reflex wouldn’t be especially effective since she’s only covering her mouth as if it was a typical airborne virus.

Taking pics would not occur to me, though.


19 posted on 10/10/2014 10:49:39 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: FlingWingFlyer

He knows what he’s doing if you consider the idea that a little itty bitty Ebola outbreak here will have him overseeing CDC budgets that will leave his predecessors in tears.

Of course, from the standpoint of the citizenry, that looks like it might carry a tad more risk than we’d like...


20 posted on 10/10/2014 11:36:55 PM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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