Maybe I should have saved this dude for AOTW. (Thanks to William for the link.)
When doctors told Francisco Santos he had tuberculosis Friday, health officials said the Gwinnett County 17-year-old refused to believe it.Then the wiry, dark-haired youth refused to submit to any treatment. Worse, he said he was walking out of the Gwinnett Medical Center in Lawrenceville and heading back to his home country of Mexico, officials said.
If only, but the dickhead would have prolly stayed here.
Gwinnett health officials found themselves in a bind. They had a person with a case of active, contagious tuberculosis, refusing treatment and threatening to carry the disease to a foreign country.
I know what I would do. What did Gwinnett County do?
n this case, the Gwinnett officials acted decisively: They put Santos in jail Friday evening, in a rare act of a government agency confining a sick person. Santos is the only inmate in a special medical isolation cell designed for inmates with contagious conditions. The cell, which measures about 15 feet by 20 feet, has a special ventilation system that keeps the air from reaching other inmates.
Yay! that's what I would have done.
Will said Santos is being held under a court order for confinement. He'll stay in that cell until either he starts cooperating and accepting treatment, or a judge makes some other decision at a Sept. 5 hearing. At that commitment hearing, the judge could decide to place him in a hospital with security.
I wonder how long it will be until some ACLU lawyer comes along and demands this asshat get his "rights"? In the article they state that Gwinnett County officials do not know his immigration status but I'll bet he's here illegally.
Posted by denny at August 28, 2007 02:26 PMMy wife is a Public Health Nurse and she personally can tell you, if this state's laws are anything like ours, the state doesn't know if he's Illegal because the public health officials are not allowed by the state to ask him that question!!
Posted by: Strnj1 on August 28, 2007 05:30 PMI love this quote. "he'll stay in that cell untill he starts either cooperating and accepting treatment, or a judge makes some other decision at a Sept 5 hearing."
I got a better idea. How about...
A. We leave him there until... He dies.
B. We leave him there until... We can drop his
infected ass back into Mexico City.
C. We leave him there until... We can find more
I.I.D's (Illegal Infected Dickheads) and
making it more cost effective to return the
plague to its home of origin ship them ALL
back, C.O.D of course.
I agee with what the county officials did except for one thing.
I would not have a separate ventilation system that keeps the air from getting to the other inmates.
If he is here illegally (which we know he is), I would deport him immediately back to Mexico, give him to the authorities there and give the mamafuckers a goddamn bill for all of the costs this fuck incurred.
It is soooooooooooooo nice to live in such a rich nation that we can just pay for everybody and everything.
Ya think the attitude towards all these illegals who do work Americans won't do might change when we have a recession?
Imagine if they had become immediate citizens as the washington elitists tried to shove up our collective asses and then the work dried up.
Smart, real fucking smart.
Posted by: Willie on August 28, 2007 06:50 PM
He is only one of the illegals that has health problems. How many of the 20 million or so has worse? Some of these illnesses Ripley wouldn't believe. They have VD that makes a joke of penicillin. Of course congress is more worried about steroids in baseball.
Posted by: gene Hall on August 28, 2007 07:00 PMThanks to both legal and illegal immigration this country now has a whole list of diseases that most doctors and hospitals don't even recognize, let along know how to treat.
Posted by: emdfl on August 28, 2007 07:17 PMemdfl:
Well, if YOU know about those diseases, isn't it your task to bring that knowledge forth in a timely manner?
The teaching hospitals don't even know???
C'Mon!
I am going to hold my breath until I see what the judge does. There are some dumb ass judges. So far so good though.
If an ACLU lawyer does crawl out of a slime pond, then I say let him/her take him so long as Esteban is confined in ACLU headquarters.
Posted by: patrick on August 29, 2007 01:10 AMI would give him two options:
1.) Get treated, and then immediately deported.
2.) Hop into this chair we like to call "Ol' Sparky".
How much more tax payer money is it going to cost Americans to incarcerate the scumbag? One cent more is too much as far as I am concerned...
Posted by: CharlieDelta on August 29, 2007 04:26 AMSo let me get this straight. Not only are we spending tax dollars and raising medical insurance costs to treat this guy, we are now also spending more tax dollars on locking him up. Any one know how much a one way boot to Mexico costs?
Posted by: Bill on August 29, 2007 05:42 AMSee this is what happens when we allow third world countries unfettered access to our fantastic society, they bring third world diseases. Americans are now having to cope with medically resistant TB, sexually transmitted diseases and several strains of plague and malaria that we have never had here before. It is no thanks to the open borders we have failed to secure and the morons that think there's no harm in letting the hard working, citizens of these third world countries just walk right in. DanS, the folks in our health care system are VERY aware of the diseases and their ramifications, BUT if there's no drugs to treat it, there's nothing they can do. Because our country practices a significantly higher hygenic regimen than most developed countries in the world, we normally wouldn't have to worry about these things, but thanks to the filth and vermin that come in and work with our food and in our health care system, well hell, all bets on our safety are off.
Dan
In the long list of stupid things you have published on this blog, that remark would probably be at the top. How about Dengue Fever and West Nile virus for starters? Damn few doctors would recognize the early symtoms; hell most of them wouldn't recognize Lyme disease without the "bullseye" red ring.
But what do I know? I'm only passing on remarks made by my Father-in-Law who was only the Chief of Internal Medicine at the largest VA hospital in the South. This after he had returned from a med con on communicable disease.
It's the Clinton's fault.
Posted by: vetfromhell on August 29, 2007 07:52 AMCD,
Sparky? No way, electricity is expensive, rope is cheap.
Jeremy-
You have a point, but I like fireworks and I wouldn't mind paying a few extra dollars to see the show...
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/14009949/detail.html
Posted by: vetfromhell on August 30, 2007 04:08 PM