Can disease be transmitted by TSA?

[sloughfoot]

I am pretty sure that TSA screeners wear latex gloves. I doubt whether they change them before screening the next suspect.

If they do not change their gloves, are there any diseases or organisms that can be transmitted from one suspect to the next?

 

[Joe Williams]

I am pretty sure that TSA screeners wear latex gloves. I doubt whether they change them before screening the next suspect.

If they do not change their gloves, are there any diseases or organisms that can be transmitted from one suspect to the next?

If they do not change gloves between molestations, they are transmitting disease. There is no "if" about it.

 

[gage]

I would be most fearful of catching the dreadful dumb-assery disease. It appears to be spreading like wildfire.

 

[jeremy]

To the best of my Non-Medical Knowledge Stupid is not transferable...

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird, it's a plane, it's superbug!



MRSA=>Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Lots of stuff CAN be transmitted, but MRSA is what I have a lot of experience with in prison and jails (what's the difference between prison and the airport, you have more rights in prison).

 

[redneckmedic]

I hope they are using Nitrate or vinyl as Latex is a huge allergen amongst the U.S. population. And like everyone else, I sure as hell hope they are changing gloves as there are several skin to skin dermatitis that can be transferred. Not to mention any hair host bugs. Lice, crabs. ect.

 

[Tryin']

This is how the gubmint's gonna carry out it's newest round of population control/ domestic germ warfare. . . Forget the contrails, we got GROPERS!

 

[redneckmedic]

What's the difference between prison and the airport, you have more rights in prison).

You get three meals in prison?
You get to cuddle after the molestation in prison?
You know your molesters name in prison?
I could do this all night

 

[sloughfoot]

I forgot about latex allergies....

 

[CarmelHP]

I am pretty sure that TSA screeners wear latex gloves. I doubt whether they change them before screening the next suspect.

If they do not change their gloves, are there any diseases or organisms that can be transmitted from one suspect to the next?

OK, you're a ****ing genius! If there is one thing that will get people riled up and grossed out enough to start refusing, en masse, to be assaulted by these thugs is to start suggesting that cooties are being spread. Send the word far and wide that TSA is spreading MRSA, bedbugs, lice, VD and anything else you can think of. Let them prove they're not. Keep them on the "yuck" defensive. Want your 8 year to get crabs? Send them through an airport security checkpoint. Want your crotch eaten by MRSA? Let TSA grope you.

 

[ocsdor]

Let's not forget whatever ailments people are spreading walking barefoot in the naked scanners.

 

[sloughfoot]

I have a personal reason why I asked the question, I'm not trying to start any unfounded rumors. Although, I am not necessarily opposed to them in this case.

I have two total replacement Biomet knees. Last February, I and a Viet Nam leg amputee were going through screening at O'Hare. We were both routed into a cubicle for further screening. We both had to remove our trousers. He had to remove his leg.

We were both touched intimately, one after the other by the male TSO.

He did not change gloves in between his screening. Even if we had insisted that he do so, how would the next person in line know that he had just probed someone before him. He walked out of the cubicle with the same gloves on.

It was obvious that changing gloves was not part of the protocol.

 

[indykid]

Actually they can spread a disease, the same one that the Nazis spread, the Communists spread, that Stalin spread, that Muselini spread, and others. It is the disease that gets the sheep to believe that what is being done to them is for their own good, and the sheep should trust the government. It's a mental disease that causes people to believe that if the government says it is good for you, it must be.

 

[CarmelHP]

I have a personal reason why I asked the question, I'm not trying to start any unfounded rumors. Although, I am not necessarily opposed to them in this case.

I'll go on record as a proponent. It's unhygienic, let the bastards prove they're not spreading disease. Let them prove they're not irradiating you or sexually molesting you. The burden is on them.

 

[Noland]

I plan on not flying for a while. Maybe not ever.

But if that changes for some unforeseen reason, I am opting out of the scan and I will be commando and in a kilt.

Hope that you are not behind me in line.

 

[rfontes]

i think you'd have a better chance of catching a contagious disease/parasite while visiting a gym. ppl sweating on the equipment, someones crotch rubbing on the stationary bike seat, ppls feet in the locker room spreading athletes foot. imagine trying to explain to your wife/girlfriend that you got crabs from a exercise bike while you were at lifestyle fitness.

 

[CarmelHP]

i think you'd have a better chance of catching a contagious disease/parasite while visiting a gym. ppl sweating on the equipment, someones crotch rubbing on the stationary bike seat, ppls feet in the locker room spreading athletes foot. imagine trying to explain to your wife/girlfriend that you got crabs from a exercise bike while you were at lifestyle fitness.

Getting a disease from something used voluntarily is one thing, getting a disease from a filthy, slimy TSA agent, an agent of your government, is entirely something else.

 

[CarmelHP]

Does somebody here work for WND? This story apparently was posted 2 or 3 hours after sloughfoot's post here:

Spreadin' the glove: TSA infecting U.S.?

 

[rambone]

TSA pat-downs could spread sexually-transmitted disease and contribute to pandemics

 

[88GT]

I am pretty sure that TSA screeners wear latex gloves. I doubt whether they change them before screening the next suspect.

If they do not change their gloves, are there any diseases or organisms that can be transmitted from one suspect to the next?

I raised this issue here

I'm also wondering what the response would be to a woman wearing feminine hygiene products. Are they gonna ask her to drop her panties and show the blood-stained item as proof? If they don't, doesn't that just defeat the purpose of a screen since anybody (well, any female, in this case, I guess) could claim "It's just a pad."