Typhoid Mary The Original Asymptomatic Super-Spreader
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Date: 2022-12-29
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Sue
I have extreme empathy for Mary. I also doubt if she had the ability to understand what even the doctors of the time didn't, although I have to admit that if doctors told me to wash my hands before preparing food, I would have. So part of her dilemma was directly due to her own behavior in not doing as she was told. Even if she didn't comprehend the reason. At that time, if a worker was told something they had better do it if they wanted to keep their job. The problem with this is that those telling her to wash her hands were not the ones who employed her.
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I have extreme empathy for Mary. I also doubt if she had the ability to understand what even the doctors of the time didn't, although I have to admit that if doctors told me to wash my hands before preparing food, I would have. So part of her dilemma was directly due to her own behavior in not doing as she was told. Even if she didn't comprehend the reason. At that time, if a worker was told something they had better do it if they wanted to keep their job. The problem with this is that those telling her to wash her hands were not the ones who employed her.
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Cherie
Mary got what she deserved. She had a complete and utter disregard for anyone but herself. If a person today had a illness that could be spread through food handling and, if contracted, was potentially fatal but they refused to stop working in restaurants and even changed their name to stay in the industry, even after being told they were making people sick, couldnt they be charged with a crime? Typhoid Mary was a criminal. Its on thing if you dont know you are contagious, its another thing if you know you are but dont care.
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Mary got what she deserved. She had a complete and utter disregard for anyone but herself. If a person today had a illness that could be spread through food handling and, if contracted, was potentially fatal but they refused to stop working in restaurants and even changed their name to stay in the industry, even after being told they were making people sick, couldnt they be charged with a crime? Typhoid Mary was a criminal. Its on thing if you dont know you are contagious, its another thing if you know you are but dont care.
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education
I don't often side with the authorities but this was definitely an extreme case. She was infecting so many people and refusing to listen to their warnings. Times were tough but they couldn't just keep letting her make people sick. They didn't have much of a choice but to confine her if she wouldn't stop. Especially since there was no real way to warn people she was harmful as she kept changing her name. They didn't need to treat her badly once in quarantine though, that part was inhumane.
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I don't often side with the authorities but this was definitely an extreme case. She was infecting so many people and refusing to listen to their warnings. Times were tough but they couldn't just keep letting her make people sick. They didn't have much of a choice but to confine her if she wouldn't stop. Especially since there was no real way to warn people she was harmful as she kept changing her name. They didn't need to treat her badly once in quarantine though, that part was inhumane.
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humaira
From a sensitive and empathetic point of view no she did not deserve such treatment. But she brought that to herself, she denied to accept she was the problem, she should have voluntarily given up on jobs that needed public exposure but then she wouldve died in oblivion, this way, people know about her. It was a good story though, cz many would relate to that now when we are living through another pandemic, remember those people who didnt wear mask thought it was their choice!
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From a sensitive and empathetic point of view no she did not deserve such treatment. But she brought that to herself, she denied to accept she was the problem, she should have voluntarily given up on jobs that needed public exposure but then she wouldve died in oblivion, this way, people know about her. It was a good story though, cz many would relate to that now when we are living through another pandemic, remember those people who didnt wear mask thought it was their choice!
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Wolfe
If she didn't realise and hide it from the start (which I think she did) she most certainly knew after her 1st quarantine. I believe she had some mental disorders co occuring. (Including Sociopathy) Why on earth you'd fight to keep an infected Gaul bladder. I don't know. I! Glad she was quarantined again for life. Yes it's horrible but she proved she would keep evading authority and keep working. Basically break the law = jail.
Strange woman. I hadn't heard of her before.
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If she didn't realise and hide it from the start (which I think she did) she most certainly knew after her 1st quarantine. I believe she had some mental disorders co occuring. (Including Sociopathy) Why on earth you'd fight to keep an infected Gaul bladder. I don't know. I! Glad she was quarantined again for life. Yes it's horrible but she proved she would keep evading authority and keep working. Basically break the law = jail.
Strange woman. I hadn't heard of her before.
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JuMiKu
I really have little sympathy for her. She clearly knew something was up and kept going back to cooking.
I wonder if all the people pitying her, would have been so charitable, if she had indirectly killed one of their loved ones. Not just before she was told, but after. Honestly, I would have wanted her to be tried for murder (she basically killed people and her motivation was money.
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I really have little sympathy for her. She clearly knew something was up and kept going back to cooking.
I wonder if all the people pitying her, would have been so charitable, if she had indirectly killed one of their loved ones. Not just before she was told, but after. Honestly, I would have wanted her to be tried for murder (she basically killed people and her motivation was money.
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Har
She was essentially a serial killer. She knew what she had done each time and changed her name and life to get away with it each time. She was knowledgeable of the problems she was causing and kept knowingly spreading it over and over. No reason to play a race or nationality card here. It is plainly obvious that she was guilty of malice against other people's well beings. Serial killer.
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She was essentially a serial killer. She knew what she had done each time and changed her name and life to get away with it each time. She was knowledgeable of the problems she was causing and kept knowingly spreading it over and over. No reason to play a race or nationality card here. It is plainly obvious that she was guilty of malice against other people's well beings. Serial killer.
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Chad
She was given a chance to live her life, but she refused to do the one thing she was asked. The cooking at the hospital gig was probably what really caused her lifetime confinement. Since she would not listen to what she was told (no cooking for people, I think she deserved her confinement. She directly caused the death of at least three people.
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She was given a chance to live her life, but she refused to do the one thing she was asked. The cooking at the hospital gig was probably what really caused her lifetime confinement. Since she would not listen to what she was told (no cooking for people, I think she deserved her confinement. She directly caused the death of at least three people.
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Barb-
Mary didn't deserve to be a typhoid carrier, but she was one. So, she did deserve to be confined to protect the public, because she refused to do what she needed to do to protect the people around her. She caused others to die from typhoid just as if she had put poison in their food while cooking for them.
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Mary didn't deserve to be a typhoid carrier, but she was one. So, she did deserve to be confined to protect the public, because she refused to do what she needed to do to protect the people around her. She caused others to die from typhoid just as if she had put poison in their food while cooking for them.
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peace2014
The lack of personal hygiene is still common especially in 3rd world countries where toilet paper or hot water is not available to the poor. People who have immigrated from those countries have infected their employers who hire them to cook or do other household duties.
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The lack of personal hygiene is still common especially in 3rd world countries where toilet paper or hot water is not available to the poor. People who have immigrated from those countries have infected their employers who hire them to cook or do other household duties.
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Anna
Why didnt she willing let them test her
She ruined so many lives
Killed many
Why wouldnt she want to stop this outbreak
Just unwillingness to help
Nasty
Has no conscience
Bloody wash your hand and body dirty cow
Agh nasty
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Why didnt she willing let them test her
She ruined so many lives
Killed many
Why wouldnt she want to stop this outbreak
Just unwillingness to help
Nasty
Has no conscience
Bloody wash your hand and body dirty cow
Agh nasty
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aewtx
She had to know she was a carrier if she kept changing her name. And the argument that maybe she didn't want press attention only confirmed it, because that would only happen if it traced back to her, so she had to know it would trace back to her.
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She had to know she was a carrier if she kept changing her name. And the argument that maybe she didn't want press attention only confirmed it, because that would only happen if it traced back to her, so she had to know it would trace back to her.
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asaintpi
The dirty pig didn't wash her hands after she pooped, then she squeezed the peaches with those poop-hands. Mary got what she deserved. She would have been a total anti-masker Karen had she been around for the pandemic.
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The dirty pig didn't wash her hands after she pooped, then she squeezed the peaches with those poop-hands. Mary got what she deserved. She would have been a total anti-masker Karen had she been around for the pandemic.
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K.
She was a scapegoat. The medical establishment was completely inept, incompetent, snd ignorant about this disease, so they needed someone else to shift the attention to. Blaming poor people is just unforgivable.
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She was a scapegoat. The medical establishment was completely inept, incompetent, snd ignorant about this disease, so they needed someone else to shift the attention to. Blaming poor people is just unforgivable.
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Michael
Now imagine that like 33% of the country's population is just like her and there's a global pandemic. Boom. 2020.
Maybe three years ago this story would've been interesting and shocking. But after 2020.
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Now imagine that like 33% of the country's population is just like her and there's a global pandemic. Boom. 2020.
Maybe three years ago this story would've been interesting and shocking. But after 2020.
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Elke
The fact that she kept changing locations and changing your name just goes to show she was being deceptive. And also shows she was trying to avoid them proving that she was in fact the spreader.
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The fact that she kept changing locations and changing your name just goes to show she was being deceptive. And also shows she was trying to avoid them proving that she was in fact the spreader.
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Majestic
This would have been a more simple an affordable solution, Deport her back Scotland. And informed the authorities of her condition. (After she's there in their custody)
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This would have been a more simple an affordable solution, Deport her back Scotland. And informed the authorities of her condition. (After she's there in their custody)
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Emily
I feel both were in the wrong. Mary should have listened, yes. The government, of course, had the right to confine her- but her treatment during confinement seems immoral.
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I feel both were in the wrong. Mary should have listened, yes. The government, of course, had the right to confine her- but her treatment during confinement seems immoral.
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education
I believe she had known she was deff a serial killer n what made her so damn dangerous. psychopath. shes deff on that line with the rest of Americas great known s. k!
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I believe she had known she was deff a serial killer n what made her so damn dangerous. psychopath. shes deff on that line with the rest of Americas great known s. k!
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Julio
The fact that she slips away whenever there is a new outbreak in her place of employment tells me that she knows she is the one causing it. Makes her evil in my book.
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The fact that she slips away whenever there is a new outbreak in her place of employment tells me that she knows she is the one causing it. Makes her evil in my book.
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