so we're just not gonna have a national conversation about how Boeing killed one of their own employees to keep him from talking to the press
like we're really not gonna address the fact that he died of a "self inflicted head wound" literal hours after Boeings lawyers asked him to stay an extra day. We're not gonna speak on the fact that he told his family "if I die, it wasn't suicide " before he went to go testify. None of it huh
Oh? You haven't heard? I'm not surprised with how hard the media are parrying it
THAT TOO. LMFAOOO
I was not prepared for Boeing apparently just straight up murdering people now. Holy shirtballs.
Okay but how do you murder someone with MRSA?
Modern day small pox blanket. Dart. Mysterious powder.
And then what? Hope that the person happens to be susceptible to staphylococcus and contracts an infection?
Staph is literally everywhere all the time. 1 in 3 people are asymptomatic carriers of staphylococcus, and 1 in 50 are asymptomatic carriers of MRSA.
Most people don't catch it, and even if they do, most people recover from it.
Like you wouldn't need a modern small pox blanket... just go to a store and touch a shopping cart handle and you could pick up a staph infection.
Or go to literally any hospital and you could catch MRSA. That's where it's most commonly found.
I am susceptible to staph bacteria for some reason. I've been on antibiotics for it 8 separate times since I was 17 (the very first time I contracted a serious staph infection)... like, staph really is everywhere, trust me... I catch it all the time.
A guy contracting MRSA in a hospital isn't that strange. People sick enough to be in hospitals are also very susceptible to staph.
My mom's wife got a staph infection from eating something she dropped on her chest. It is immensely treatable considering she has an autoimmune disease. Though the use of a targeted bio weapon in the silencing of a key witness sounds incredibly American. Considering Boeing is also a defense contractor it's not outside the realm of possibility.
Yeah, most staph infections are treatable. MRSA is an antibiotic-resistant strain of staph, which is why it's a problem.
It just seems like a very convoluted way of killing someone... there's no guarantee they'll even contract the infection at all, and even if they do, there's no guarantee they'll die from it... most people don't.
MRSA has a 50% mortality rate among ICU patients, and between 10%-30% mortality rate otherwise.
Like, if you were going to murder someone, why would you use a method that's only fatal between 10-50% of the time, depending on the specific circumstances?
Oddly enough, I am watching an old Law & Order episode tonight, "Flight" (Season 9, Episode 4), in which a child is murdered via VRSA (sold via mail order!)! He was injected with it by his own father, who had a mistress and a little embezzlement problem. Given the show's propensity for "ripped from the headlines" stories, someone must have done something like this. (He was an insurance guy, though. Not an airplane manufacturing executive. LOL)
Possibly ripped from the headlines, but definitely with some creative liberties because this episode aired in 1998, and the first confirmed case of VRSA in a human wasn't until 2002...
In 1992, VRSA was created in lab experiments, but the staph virus had not actually adapted in the wild yet.
By 1996, staph bacteria in the wild was beginning to show reduced susceptibility to vamcomycin, so it was only a matter of time before it evolved to become fully resistant.
So like, by 1998, VRSA was sort of a thing but also not a thing, because it had been successfully created in experiments but nature had not made it there yet.
A woman in the US became the first person in the world to become infected with VRSA that had evolved in the wild.
But VRSA is worse than MRSA, because MRSA is treated with vancomycin, and VRSA is resistant to that.
VRSA is also incredibly rare. The first case in the world was in 2002, and as of 2022, there had only been 16 total cases in the US (I don't know about worldwide). There were two confirmed cases in 2021, which were the 15th and 16th, and prior to 2021, the last confirmed case was in 2015.
So like... I could see this being ripped from the headlines in the sense that VRSA was just being discovered around that time, and had been successfully created in a lab, and was going to be the most antibiotic-resistant form of staphylococcus to date, so it makes for a good TV storyline, you know?
Also, for the record, the two VRSA cases in 2021 were not related. VRSA is created when MRSA comes in contact with another bacteria called VRE (vancomycin resistant enterococci), so to contract VRSA, you have to be infected with MRSA and VRE at the same time.
Also, every person who has contracted VRSA in the US has had a previous underlying condition that causes immunodeficiency (most commonly diabetes, which makes people more susceptible to staph infections) AND they had all previously been treated with vancomycin for another infection.
This is why it would be so difficult to purposely infect someone with a bacteria like this, because most people just don't have the exact right factors to contract the infection at any given time.
MRSA needs to get into your body to cause a life threatening condition. In most cases, your immune system will basically trap the bacteria in your skin, and the antibiotics will kill it. If you're immunocompromised, the bacteria becomes invasive, which is when it gets dangerous, because you have an antibiotic resistant bacteria spreading through your whole body
But if you're going to purposely infect someone and they aren't immunocompromised, they're probably just going to get better with treatment.
All around, it's a bad way to murder someone.
Like, if I were going to infect someone with something as a form of murder, I'd pick Ebola. 90% mortality rate. Way better odds of success
Just adding this in, when I was reading the NPR article I’m wondering if he was experiencing septic shock because he was having trouble breathing then multiple organ shut down. My mom died due to septic shock and her autopsy said she had pneumonia. She also passed really quickly too once she was in the ER. It just seems to be from what we know there could be a number of reason why Joshua Dean died from MRSA that does not involve biowarfare
