It looks like Robert Daniels is pretty much toast.A news story this month reports that the poor bugger seems to have contracted a disease-resistant strain of tuberculosis and has gotten his backside thrown into jail because of it.
Officials found out about Daniels in 2006 when (all facts according to this story) he went to a Phoenix hospital for respiratory problems. The hospital folks sent him...
...to a Phoenix halfway house for indigent TB patients under a voluntary quarantine. He was ordered to continue treatment and wear a mask when he went out in public because the disease is spread by airborne contact.And therein lies the problem.
Daniels stopped taking his medication and went unmasked to a restaurant, a convenience market and other stores, court records stated.
The man is a walking timebomb. He's got a strain of TB that is described as "extreme multidrug resistant tuberculosis" and doesn't want to treat it or protect the folks around him. He is the perfect cauldron for development of a new disease and seems to be mostly resistant to that disease (at least for now). According to the article, a 2006 medical assesment showed that the strain is mutating in Daniels.
Good stuff.
So the question comes - do we keep him locked up forever, knowing that even the slightest screw up leads to something like The Stand, do we release him because he hasn't really done anything wrong, or do we trick him into a little room (tell him it's a bathroom or something), shoot him in the head, and drop the whole room into a plasma generator or something?
Of course, how do you scrub and get rid of his hospital room?
Oh, and thanks to
for initially sending this article my way.
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