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[–] [email protected] 97 points 6 months ago (5 children)

He was 45, had been in good health and was noted for having a healthy lifestyle.

Looks like Boeing is just taking a page right out of Russians books and doing obvious murders in the open now.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 months ago (2 children)

He died from a MRSA infection, which can and does kill people at any stage of life. That shit is everywhere, but whether you get sick or not is kinda a crap shoot.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago (1 children)

MRSA is not that common. Most people get it from contact in medical facilities, but some people (very few) do carry it around.

When someone contracts it and becomes seriously ill, it usually means they weren't a carrier to begin with, or had an immunodeficiency that allowed the pathogen to overtake an equilibrium with their immune system. They do hardcore contact tracing if someone actually dies from it, and if nobody around this guy had it...quite suspicious. That's all I'm saying.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

He was sick in hospital with pneumonia, before he got MRSA though. In hospitals there's a higher chance to catch MRSA, especially if someone is already weakened by a severe lung infection.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I’d like one example where MRSA has been used for bioterrorism. Never heard of it when I was a medical lab tech in the military, nor as a medical lab scientist later in my life. Bioterrorism is extremely rare, and MRSA is a poor choice for a biological weapon.

E. coli O157:H7 would be a better choice, or Vibrio, or really any of the enteric pathogens introduced to food or water supplies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Well, the 1984 bioterror attack associated with the Rajneeshee was done with salmonella. The question this raises is if there are any advantages to cultivating it as an assassin's weapon.

I'm not saying I know it is, only that the two associated deaths make for a pretty amazing coincidence.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Salmonella is not MRSA (methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus). The point I was trying to make is Staph isn’t a good bioterrorism agent. It doesn’t spread like weaponized anthrax, it’s not particularly deadly, and it can’t be spread by food/water like the enteric pathogens. It’s just not suitable or we’d have researched the fuck out of it at USAMRIID.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

They seem to have taken a page from Death Note

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I wonder if Boeing uses Novichok as well.

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Something something 3 times is a pattern

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Would you trust your baby alone in the woods with a random man or a Boeing exec?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

Boeing exec. Baby has no insider knowledge. Should be safe.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

Once is happenstance, twice is a coincidence, three times is enemy action

[–] 0x0 17 points 6 months ago

This surely happened in Russia... oh, wait...

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago

🤔🤔🤔

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

Boeing not really going out of their way to not make it look obvious, are they?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Hey guys, unless I missed Boeing getting into biological warfare, I'm pretty sure an infection had nothing to do with them. It's funny to circlejerk though, I know.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 6 months ago (2 children)

you can point and laugh all you want but the real meat of this story is that trust in our institutions is this low.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (10 children)

Would you trust your baby alone in the woods with a random man or a Boeing exec?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago

Sorry. Bears have mysteriously shot themselves in the head.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Execs have the most psychopats and narcicists, so the chances of them abandoning the kid are high.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

They wouldn't abandon a child.

They would use the child as much as possible to save themselves. Noisemaker for a search party, small hands to reach into tight spaces, easy bear escape mechanism, etc.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

A bear. I choose a bear.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Isn't that exactly what Repubicans did with the election?

-Make a bunch of baseless claims of fraud

-"Look guys we need to do something, trust in the election process is low!"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Well yeah -- The loss of decorum in the ruling class/aristocracy started rolling down the hill with Newt. Once you get a Caeser it's just a matter of time before your Nero shows up.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?430052-2/partisan-politics-legacy-newt-gingrich#!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What a dumb strawman, you're guessing just like everyone else! Absolutely no one's saying they manufacture bioweapons. But one of the biggest companies ever, with almost 80 billion in revenue each year definitely has access to shady methods, even if they wouldn't put it on itemized expenses reports.

1 whistleblower dying before they can testify is a huge coincidence, 2 is an extraordinary one.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yeah... Customs and Border Patrol wrote this article using MRSA as an example of a biological/terror threat.

https://www.cbp.gov/frontline/natural-enemies-how-cbp-battles-bioterrorism-and-biohazards

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (8 children)

Boing is starting to have a bigger mysterious trail of bodies around them than Hilary Clinton.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

“The Congressional Record (1994) stated that the compiler of the original list, Linda Thompson, admitted she had "'no direct evidence' of Clinton killing anyone. Indeed, she says the deaths were probably caused by 'people trying to control the president' but refuses to say who they were."

“Several sources have discredited the conspiracy theory, such as the Congressional Record,[4] the Lakeland Ledger, the Chicago Tribune, Snopes and others, pointing to detailed death records, the unusually large circle of associates that a president is likely to have, and the fact that many of the people listed had been misidentified or were still alive. Others had no known link to the Clintons.“

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_body_count_conspiracy_theory

Can we let Vince Foster rest you fucking ghouls.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It's really competitive of them trying to knock Putin off of the top of the charts.

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