Ugh. Man died in CA after having been in Orlando for conf and theme parks

[Roland99]

https://www.tmz.com/2020/03/19/34-year-old-california-man-dies-coronavirus-visited-disney-world-florida/

Jeffrey Ghazarian from Glendora, CA, died Thursday morning at a Pasadena hospital after spending 5 days hooked up to a ventilator and battling for his life ... according to his family.

His sister says ... "He suffered a lot and put up a good fight. We will miss our Jeff everyday but we are thankful for all the fun happy memories of the times we had together."

Jeff's timeline regarding his COVID-19 infection is terrifying and should be eye-opening for people of all ages. According to his family, he flew from L.A. to Orlando on March 2 for a work conference, but stayed a few extra days to visit Disney World and Universal theme parks with friends.

We're told on March 7 he developed a cough, and the next day he coughed up blood. He flew back to LAX on March 9 ... and immediately went to the ER, where he also had a high fever.

[Coventina]

1. Gleeps!

[steve2470]

2. RIP Mr. Ghazarian....

I have a sick feeling that many who went to Disney and Universal are also going to get sick, and maybe die. The same goes for the people crowding the beaches at Clearwater.

[spinbaby]

7. The scenes from that last night at Disney World

The photos showed crowds packed elbow to elbow. In about two weeks we’re going to see an outbreak from that.

[steve2470]

11. yes we will nt

[Hermit-The-Prog]

18. all those packed airports at other cities comes to mind, too

[GumboYaYa]

20. They think Mardi Gras is fueling a large outbreak in Louisiana

A team of wild horses could not drag me into a crowd these days!

[rzemanfl]

14. Clearwater is a single beach in Florida. There are many of them.

Clearwater got news coverage. I am not making excuses, just pointing out the facts.

[steve2470]

16. yes I know, I live here

The same goes for any crowded beach in Florida where social distancing was difficult or impossible.

[lunatica]

19. Did you just stay home? I hope!

That’s really scary for you!

[steve2470]

53. yes stayed home, thanks nt

[rzemanfl]

25. I don't think the ferry to Caladesi is running. It wasn't yesterday.

Too many people in too little space.

I walked the beach at Honeymoon yesterday. Almost everyone kept distancing of at least six feet. There were a few dumbasses who passed by too close. I quickly started giving a wide berth to stupid looking people.

[steve2470]

54. sorry you had to cope with the ignorant/dumb/defiant who passed by too close nt

[MoonlitKnight]

3. Florida is likely a hotspot

And may have been for a while.

[link:https://www.kinsahealth.co/products/health-map/|

[link:https://healthweather.us|

[MoonlitKnight]

56. This map seems to line up with the health weather map above

[link:https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/96dd742462124fa0b38ddedb9b25e429|

[BeckyDem]

4. wow It is this type of description and time line that more people need to hear.

I'm not sure enough Americans realize how fast a person can deteriorate and all those people he has likely infected.

[PatSeg]

5. Wow, only 34 years old

Sad and scary.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

51. 24 year olds think they won't be coughing blood & have lung function down for life from scarring. nt

[BamaRefugee]

6. I'm actually headed to Glendora in a while to clear out my storage locker. I'm gonna need that $200

a month that I'm paying way more than I need the stuff in there.

R.I.P. Mr Ghazarian. I wonder what hospital he was in. I was just in Huntington Hospital ( I go there often for business and have had 2 big surgeries there in the last 18 months) and the place was DESERTED, it's usually packed with folks coming and going.

[deurbano]

38. I gave birth to my daughter at that hospital in 1973. I'd been exiled to Pasadena (from Bakersfield)

by my parents since I was an embarrassing (about-to-be) teen mother. (Even though my mother had already dragged me to Las Vegas to marry the birth father... not that he was ever in the picture after the "wedding"!) I took a whole semester of summer classes at Pasadena City College (gave birth right before finals, so had to make those up), while watching Watergate hearings on the TV in my bedroom (I was staying with a family with six kids, but luckily had my own room) in my spare time.

At that time, Huntington Memorial was a pretty high end hospital. I still have the hospital menu which included a choice of red or white wine! One entree was pastitsio. I probably didn't choose that since I would have had no idea what it was. (My loss...)

[Granny M]

41. That's where I was born

a very long time ago.....

Truly a frightening timeline and travel history. This is really getting ugly. We had a jump of 34% in new cases here in Ireland today. Our Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said on Sunday that this was the calm before the storm. We are healthy but staying home and away from everyone as much as possible.

[deurbano]

48. Small world! Best wishes from San Francisco during this scary and unpredictable time.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

8. He coughed up blood, then got on an airplane?

I don't like to speak ill of the dead, so I'll just shut up.

[TDale313]

10. Had the same thought. n/t

[USALiberal]

21. Then why even say it? nt

[Karadeniz]

29. My thoughts verbatim! Someone at the airport must've heard him coughing and kept him off

The plane. Now everyone on that plane has shared his recycled air.

[grantcart]

40. This is a super spreader. And he knew it

[Phoenix61]

9. I'm confused. Things got worse the afternoon

of the 13th. I’m guessing that meant low O2 levels but he wasn’t taken to hospital until the 14th? And they knew he had pneumonia and Covid? How effing sick do you have to be before you get to go to the hospital?

[Roland99]

12. who knows..sucks he wasn't admitted on the 9th!!

[sdfernando]

13. Wow...kinda scary...

I flew from San Diego to Orlando for work on 3/3 but flew back on 3/4 as it was just to meet some vendors onsite to do a walk-thru and get quotes for an office expansion. I stayed in Lake Mary...didn't interact with a ton of people...but I was on 4 planes total...SD to Atlanta, Atlanta to Orlando, then back again. I didn't stay longer and didn't go to many places...but I did sit at the hotel bar and have dinner...it was Super-Tuesday and I sat and watched the results. That was 15 days ago and I'm not having any symptoms. Hope I dodge this thing!

[lunatica]

24. I hope you're OK

Evidently you were already social distancing quite a bit. The symptoms usually start to show in 12 days, so you’re probably OK.

[sdfernando]

32. I was but just sort of.

The bar had a lot of people in it...and I was surprised they had MSNBC on the TV. Had dinner and a Boulevardier, then went up to my room. Next day was busy in the office but kept distance where applicable. No way to avoid it on the plane though.

[lunatica]

34. The upside is that two weeks ago it wasn't as widespread so

the ittle bit of social distancing may have been adequate for that moment. The chances of being exposed have risen exponentially since then. Even on airplanes.

[Roland99]

26. I was supposed to be flying back to Orlando from LA today

Had a post-open project to work on at Disneyland and was supposed to fly out Sunday and return today.

Thursday night I was at work and me and a couple of other guys who were going to go had a conf call to discuss our options. I told them I didn't want to go (my wife and son have asthma and I'm not about to put them at any further type of risk). I told them my money was on the parks closing very soon anyway (and the next day was when the announcement was made to close all US parks)

[sdfernando]

30. Stay safe my friend!

I haven't been to a Disney Park and avoid as much of their products as I can...Was really pissed at them when they laid-off the entire IT staff at Disney World and made them train their H1-B replacements as a condition to getting severance pay (I work in IT so these were my bothers and sisters).....after Disney had 1 of their best years every. It was a fucking horrible thing to do...so I vowed never to set foot in the parks again, and avoid giving them my money if at all possible.

[Roland99]

31. Yeah...I remember that.

I tried for years to get into IT...resume was a perfect fit for multiple positions...never got a call or email

So now I'm in engineering. Much better.

[BusyBeingBest]

15. Are they at least going to notify everyone on his flight to LAX--

the plane where he was coughing up blood?

[Crunchy Frog]

17. Yikes! I hope there weren't many people on the airplane.

I don't think they're really even testing yet in Florida.

[Bengus81]

22. That's what Limbaugh calls simply a "version" of the common cold....

Says Pillboy:

The corona virus outbreak is being “weaponized” by the media to bring down Donald Trump when in fact it is simply a version of the “common cold”, the conservative radio host and presidential medal of freedom recipient Rush Limbaugh claimed on Monday.

And your stage 4 lung cancer is just basically having some difficulty breathing you asshat.

[C Moon]

35. The earth should have given away Limbaugh instead of Jeffrey Ghazarian. He looked like a good person

FaceBook page mentions before he was ill: City of Hope, and Senior Dogs donations.

[bronxiteforever]

27. This is horrible. K&R for high visibility.

[bronxiteforever]

28. Florida is going to be a super spreader across the US

My God!

[denem]

33. HE FLEW BACK TO LAX !!

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He is symptomatic, coughing up blood, then decided - and was allowed to - take a commercial flight !

This country has had it. Cause of death: stupidity.

[Ms. Toad]

45. Yup. . That's why there were 45% more cases yesterday than the day before.

Qualifies for the Darwin award - unfortunately he almost certainly took others with him who don't qualify.

In my state, we just had someone travel to California and back with pneumona and a presumptive positive test. The family has remained silent (until he died) because they didn't want to panic people. So they left them exposed and exposing others.

His father had traveled recently to California.

Mr. Wagoner said his father had been fighting pneumonia while on his California trip, and so the family was cautious about disclosing his presumptive coronavirus diagnosis initially because “we didn’t want people to panic.”

https://www.toledoblade.com/news/medical/2020/03/19/lucas-county-attorney-mark-wagoner-sr-dies-from-presumptive-coronavirus-infection/stories/20200319111

I'm pissed that someone in my family (we're all at risk) might die because these idiots aren't bright enough (or don't care enough) to not get on a plane when they are showing symptoms of a pandemic illness, or to inform others IMMEDIATELY when someone shakes some sense into them.

[denem]

46. Simple screening for fever (infrared torches) could have avoided this.

They have been doing this in Asia since day 1. “we didn’t want people to panic” my ass .

[KY_EnviroGuy]

47. Not standing up for the guy but.....

I get the sense in this situation people panic and just want to get home to their family, home and personal doctors so they disregard the risk. I've recently read a number of stories like this. People seem to have almost morbid fear of being in a strange place and losing control of their lives.

In a sane world, we might have private jets available just get sick people home when they're trapped. That's exactly what the ultra-wealthy do.

In an even more sane world, this fellow would have been tested before being allowed to fly a a commercial flight, then placed on a transport plane.

KY............

[IronLionZion]

36. Didn't say if he was uninsured or something prevented him from seeking care

or maybe had an HMO without any out of network coverage. There are systemic and cultural problems in America causing sick people to avoid the hospital for too long, largely due to the costs.

Imagine if a sick person could go to any hospital anywhere in America and it would always be in network without any fees at the point of service. We might have different outcomes from these cases.

We need sick Americans to not fear going to the hospital.

[SiliconValley_Dem]

37. In his THIRTIES

[lunasun]

52. Maybe that is why he stuck around in March when this virus spread was already public knowledge

He may have thought I am not over 60 so I’ll go to DW + UNi for a few days

[karynnj]

39. RIP

Though I know one should not speak negatively about the dead, but he really should have gone to an Orlando hospital. It could have helped him if he went in on the 8th when he was throwing up blood, but it is absolutely wrong that he boarded that plane given the circumstances. How many people did he expose on that plane?

Yes, I know he was young and with his family which would have had to face a choice of finding a place to stay or returning without him - a terrible choice.

[obamanut2012]

44. He also knowlingly spread sickness in the parks for at least two days

JFC.

[barbtries]

42. he was 34 years old.

sad.

[obamanut2012]

43. He had cancer in 2016 and also got onto a plane after coughing blood

For at least one day. Drove right to the airport after landing WITH A HIGH FEVER. He knowingly spread this at least the last two days at the parks, at the MCO airport, the shuttle or uber to the airport, in the plane, at his home airport, in his ride to the ER. JFC

wtaf

I feel very bad for his family.

[Roland99]

50. Could be the one who infected the TSA agent here

[obamanut2012]

57. My friend who lives there agrees with you n/t

[greenjar_01]

49. Horror

[Brainfodder]

55. BETTER GET FUCKING USED TO IT!

Someone had to say it!

I am furious....



Good luck to you and yours!