You know, I realize I was just part of a ritual that when I was that age, I wasn't interested in. It was really sweet to be a part of it. We were all in the bedroom with a nervous looking N. Ms. Smith, another neighbor, was sewing her into the dress, her great-aunt was bawdily talking about her prom , 35 years ago. Miss Louise was remembering that too, and mistily talking about how she never graduated, never went to prom, and now one of her grandbabies is getting to do both. Her home-aid was remembering hers and marvelling at how fancy they'd gotten. I told about my mother cursing like she rarely does as she sewed my velvet one. They were rubbing lotion on her back and spritzing her with perfume, teasing her as she rolled her eyes
GRANDma!
, and then we were taking pictures. It was such a girly thing.
It may not have been perfect, but I hope N still thinks of it as a good time.
I love you and your neighbors, Sara.
Yep and then a border guard ignored a warning to stop him because the lawyer "looked healthy".
don't you mean "was white and clean cut, so couldn't possibly be doing anything wrong"
I heard the reason he flew into Canada was because he knew was on a no-fly list for the US.
Yes indeed. He claims that once he was aware that he had a really bad strain he feared that he would die if he did not get back to the US and get treatment here. Right.
Yep and then a border guard ignored a warning to stop him because the lawyer "looked healthy".
That border guard is on desk duty now.
I'm sad to say that the only one likely to get punished is the hapless border guard. At a minimum the lawyer ought to be in trouble with his state bar. Disobeying an order not to fly, flying to Canada to avoid the no-fly list = bad. However, disciplinary boards tend to be more forgiving when the lawyer does a bad thing for a personal reason, rather than when he/she is harming a client. Still. Sheesh.
Since dude is currently in isolation under armed guard with an effectively untreatable strain of TB, I'm willing to pass on the legal payback. I suspect he's going to be forcibly quarantined (proven flight risk, after all) until a drug treatment that can cure him is invented.
The 12 year old in me must note that besides Mr. Dong, one of the other two left has the last name Wang.
One of the most common surnames in northern China. It means 'king', naturally. Oh, and queen is 'nü-wang'.
Vang is a common Norwegian name, but W is pronounced with a V-sound in Norwegian, so many confused Norwegian immigrants ended up with an American name of Wang. In states like Minnesota and Washington, which have people of both Norwegian and Chinese ancestry, this leads to many supposedly amusing newspaper photos of “the Wang brothers,” one blond and 6’3”, and one dark haired and 5’4”. I know this because I have a friend whose real name (Vangstad) got pseudo-Anglicized to Wang, and he collects examples of this trope.
Since dude is currently in isolation under armed guard with an effectively untreatable strain of TB, I'm willing to pass on the legal payback.
I'm not. Reckless endangerment at the least.
I suspect he's going to be forcibly quarantined (proven flight risk, after all) until a drug treatment that can cure him is invented.
why should he suffer the same as the guy who voluntarily turned himself in and has been in isolation for 9 months?
Reckless endangerment at the least.
How about the cost to track down and test all the people who may have been exposed on the flights?
