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Related: About this forumSecond Boeing whistleblower dies within 2 months.
Dean, 45, lived in Wichita, Kan., where Spirit is based. Known as Josh, he had been healthy and was known for a healthy lifestyle.
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/whistleblower-josh-dean-of-boeing-supplier-spirit-aerosystems-has-died/
Blue Owl
(50,676 posts)2naSalit
(87,115 posts)LoisB
(7,282 posts)Jilly_in_VA
(10,048 posts)NOW there is something fishy going on. Prove me wrong.
maxsolomon
(33,475 posts)His condition deteriorated rapidly, and he was airlifted from Wichita to a hospital in Oklahoma City, Parsons said. There he was put on an ECMO machine, which circulates and oxygenates a patients blood outside the body, taking over heart and lung function when a patients organs dont work on their own.
How did the murderer give him a MRSA?
Traurigkeit
(579 posts)would have entered the picture.
Dean became ill and went to the hospital because he was having trouble breathing just over two weeks ago
maxsolomon
(33,475 posts)I don't.
Maybe they're contracting it out to Rusher.
niyad
(114,186 posts)difficulties so severe he was hospitalized, with all the attendant horrors that came about. Nobody was saying he was "gIven" MRSA, all of us can read the article, which says he contracted it in the hospital. "correcting" or "contradicting" something that was not said is not impressive.
maxsolomon
(33,475 posts)I don't believe it is likely that Boeing's management would contract out the murder of whistleblowers.
At the end of the month, I'll have the opportunity to talk to several friends that are active or recently retired long-time Boeing employees. I'll ask if they think management is capable of such skullduggery.
I also have a neighbor who became a Boeing whistleblower after the MAX crashes. He still works there, AFAIK. He has not been murdered in some exotic way.
markodochartaigh
(1,201 posts)It is usually transmitted by physical contact with a person or object which is contaminated. But, airborne transmission is possible. There are different strains of MRSA and an individual's immune system is a huge variable. It seems like it would be difficult to infect an non-hospitalized individual's nasopharynx without their knowledge, but a close reading of the passage you quoted makes it seem that he developed MRSA as a nosocomial, or hospital acquired, infection. This would be fairly common.
I think that the question is why did he develop trouble breathing. I've been a registered nurse since 1983. When I worked on the High Plains it was very common for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease to have trouble breathing during spring storms with the change in barometric pressure from large storms. It certainly does seem an odd way for an assassin to work.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11405862/
TBF
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I am amazed. This is terribly unusual. Hope theres an autopsy.
Traurigkeit
(579 posts)orangecrush
(19,707 posts)It was a staph infection
Traurigkeit
(579 posts)orangecrush
(19,707 posts)The second developed a drug resistant staph infection.
I don't know how you could intentionally give that to someone
Ford_Prefect
(7,954 posts)resources we can only imagine. This is way out of the bone saw league. If the Russian's hit squad can deliver cesium through casual contact, I think there are people on our side of the water who are similarly expert and capable. Some of them have specialized aircraft built to order by Boeing and may have secrets worth keeping themselves.
The point is not whether it could be done. The timing argues that it might be suspicious. Cui bono reasonably applies here. That he died is not a guarantee that malicious acts were involved but it does raise the question whether they could be.
Billions of dollars in profit, a decades long industry dominating history, combined with a future of the same at risk amount to powerful motivations IMO.
niyad
(114,186 posts)chouchou
(669 posts)Oh, I'm terribly sorry, If you don't mind, What illness was it? "A freight train"
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