Captain Trips and Homeland Security

You are potentially infecting ALL the people on the Greyhound. If you take a Greyhound 10 miles you are potentially infecting ALL the people on the Greyhound. The Greyhound is not spraying the surroundings with germs as it goes.

If your rich yuppie spends 8 hours on an airliner going x miles or 16 hours on an airliner going 2x miles, he is not spreading any more germs in the latter instance. Fewer in fact, because he has less time OFF the airliner in which to spread more germs.

But really, this is just another distraction. The truth of it is someone made an idiotic prejudiced statement and now you guys are spinning madly to try to avoid admitting that it was an idiotic prejudiced statement. That's all.

on the bus plus every station you stop at to take a "rest break", and then You are potentially infecting ALL the people on the next bus you take, and of course You are potentially infecting ALL the people who get on the bus 200, 400, 500 or 750 miles down the road...

and for what it's worth, any sane person would take out #2


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if you walk to the corner store and infect everyone in it and then go to a ball game you risk infecting all the people in the stadium. Since you're not stuck on a bus you have the potential to infect many more people. If you arbitrarily change the parameters you can "prove" anything.

By the way, if you only go 200 miles you might still make rest stops and of course you are having the exact same effect on future passengers in the bus.

You are still dodging the main point, which is that the guy being rich is completely irrelevant.

The poor guy with the disease may work in an airport. He doesn't need to travel. Everyone he infects will travel for him.

... that a man in one airport or a man traveling from airport to airport certainly presents two different levels of risk. Speaker not only let people from one airport possibly do the traveling for him... but indeed he visited several airports.

Compound this with how many tourist locations where transient visitors may be exposed.

For those sensitive to the word "rich" and "poor" (which I have found so asinine) should we substitute "vacationing"? Either way one looks at it... the discussion falls under the realm of mobility and oppurtunity to expose others to a contagion.

have (depending on how far south he originated) would have sneaked across borders spreading the disease as he goes among whoever he or she comes into contact with and they in turn (rich, poor and middle income) would further the spread as they go about their lives.

Sorry to distress you by pointing this out "grim" but financial positioning has nothing to do with it.

He's the one in charge of the borders for the past 6 years, right?

but it did allow him to (potentially) spread a disease (he knew he had) to a lot more people, over a much wider area, at a greater speed, than any ******* you could care to mention...


and btw, IMO, a later post of yours that says "and what if he had been black?" has absolutely no bearing on the matter at hand


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Poor people travel too. They have just as much, if not more potential to spread disease than this guy did. That is a fact, Jonah. (as far as we know he infected no one)

And yes, my post saying, "and what if he had been black?" has direct bearing on the matter at hand. It demonstrates that Grim is operating on prejudice pure and simple.

Kill them all!

I don't

believe me, I am very very far from being rich.

The point is that there are rich arrogant jerks that think they are above the law, and there are poor arrogant jerks who think they are above the law, and there are middle-class arrogant jerks who think they are above the law.

The social status doesn't matter The operative phrase is "arrogant jerk".

don't travel to Europe very often for their wedding.

You keep forgetting that the big issue here is international travel... and the failure of authorities in several countries to detain the guy... including the US border patrol.

Diagnosing TB is not news worthy to anyone but the poor sod who has it.

It was YOU bringing in class distinction

I mentioned "wealth" being a contributing factor to mobility.

Obviously you have a problem in confusing wealth with "class" though.

Bet you're a big fan of Donald Trump.

As you so brilliantly suggested earlier that the 1918 flu pandemic was spread through the American troop deployment in Europe, how many of those were rich (or "wealthy" as you seem to think ,makes a difference)? As several here have tried to get through to you, there is a MUCH higher chance that a poor Mexican (Not a rich maroon)will enter here with a dangerous communicable disease. Since this person did NOT contract TB in a foreign country and then travel here, the ability to travel (which you equate to wealth) has NOTHING to do with it. Besides, walking is free.

aside from that... if that is what you intended to say then why waste my time with the class issue? Try to make it an immigration issue for all your worth... but if you want to go there then we need to discuss the failures of the past 6 years of the current administration do do something about our weak borders.

Bottom line is that you got busted on your class war bigotry and spent how many posts waisting how many electrons trying to evade it. In no way have I made it an immigration issue, but you can dodge and weave all you want all you wan, but you is what you is.

Classic!

For you 2, It is.

Did you see that shadow? That was a huge fact flying way over your head!

and in any case when it comes to national security. We just need to get out of the way and let them do their job....or give them a hand and not another hurdle.

... of the aisle who voted for a really tall fence... but then voted against paying for it.

My response was generic and not specific to the topic. As well, I don't separate us (you, I, et al) from those in the hallowed halls in D.C. They are included "we" and, in fact, they are supposed to be "we" (or something like that.

You really are stretching it.

sometimes to far destinations. And of course so do middle-class people.

What about the failure of authorities to detain illegal aliens who come in by the thousands? Not an issue? No, they NEVER have any diseases.

You are straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel.