Taking Responsibility
The CDC recently announced none of the airplane passengers who flew with TB-infected lawyer Andrew Speaker have contracted the disease.
This should be a sigh of relief, knowing the 250 people who boarded a flight from Atlanta to Paris in May are safe from the disease.
However, it is still infuriating to know Speaker, who was advised by health officials not to fly to Europe for his wedding because of his condition, went against what educated professionals told him.
People must be responsible for their own health and illness diagnoses, especially when it comes to something that can be easily spread to others. If you can avoid potentially passing diseases on to others, you should. This seems like an obvious statement, but it's one Speaker did not seem to understand. He selfishly put lives at risk when he decided to put his own needs before the health of people around him.