Tin Foil Hat Alert: TB Boy--practice run for the intelligence services?

[librechik]

Say for instance they wanted to find out if a guy identified as having a dangerous disease could fly from country to country without being stopped. Same sort of thing they do when the smuggle forbidden items through security in order to test the system.

First they establish a "positive" on a TB test (not so hard if you have a handy supply of the bug, say in your father in law's laboratory. He's a good citizen, he'll help out. He'll know how to make it harmless, too!)

Fact is you don't really have TB, you just test positive once and then some doctors claim you are resistant. That too could be faked.
Your mission is accomplished, no one is really endangered, and the folks who sent you now know exactly how simple it would br for even a known contagious person to travel all over the effin world without anybody being able to do a thing about it. And so do any real terrorists who wish to try it with the real thing. Eventually TB Man's erratic, attention -getting behavior attract4ed somebody's attention, and they got him to medical care, as they should have. But boy o boy, did everybody flunk that test. But why wouldn't they? The guy tested negative twice on standard tests, and he didn't look sick! (and wouldn't in this scenario.

No doubt they didn't expect to get caught out quite so publicly. Now, in th privacy of a remote medical facility, they can "cure" him.

Anyway, I'm just spinning imaginary scenarios in my head about this very strange news item with so many mysteries and odd concidences. Tin Foil Hat stuff.

After all, the father-in-law rushed out to deny any involvement--even before we knew there was a father in law.

Smells bad.

[LisaL]

1. Oh for crying out loud. This guy had no symptoms, but he had

an X-ray done because he bruised his rib. That's how his TB was discovered-on an X-ray.
HTF do you think he doesn't really has TB?

[librechik]

3. I don't know. I'm only musing. But the country is terrified again.

who does that benefit?

and yes, frankly, it seems very odd (IMO,& I have been a health care worker) that a young well-to-do lawyer would happen to get TB at all, let alone drug resistant TB.

and there seems no end to the deviousness of this weird administration ruling over us at the moment.

I feel like selling my house and moving into my :tinfoilhat:

[LisaL]

4. He has the disease, it's been diagnosed by an X-ray.

He also had been to Vietnam to help in the hospital there.
Asia, Africa and India are where most of those TB cases are, in case you don't know.

[librechik]

5. yeah, makes sense, if true

it might not be true. we only have their word on that explanation, and in my scenario, that would be the established cover story.

i didn't see the xray. did you?

i know this sort of fooling around with ideas in the news annoys some folks. But that's how Law and Order episodes are born. Just ignore me.

[LisaL]

8. Just ignore you? Will do.

[LoZoccolo]

9. "Who does that benefit?"

So you'd say that Gary Condit caused 9/11?

[RufusTFirefly]

2. The father-in-law part definitely stretches coincidence theory. n/t

[deminks]

6. Add to that doubt about the wedding ceremony

that CNN is reporting here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1024843

and it becomes even smellier.

[RB TexLa]

7. LOL

funny