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Thursday, June 07, 2007

Andrew Speaker

By Tangotiger, 01:02 AM

Great interview as usual from Larry King.  If you haven’t seen the video, you can read the transcript.

In short, the choice was NOT: travel or don’t travel.  The choice was: live in quarantine or live in the open.  And, Speaker says that he was told that he was NOT contagious (he was not told that he was slightly contagious, and he was not told that he was not highly contagious).  Being told that you are not contagious, and being told that he doesn’t need to be quarantined, he was then free to live in the open.  Andrew Speaker points out: why would it not be ok to travel to another country, but it would be ok to interact with his daughter and wife, and to continue to go to work?  He point-blank said that if he was even slightly contagious, he would have sequestered himself, to ensure that his daughter would not be at risk. 

Andrew Speaker also point blank calls the CDC and Fulton County administrators liars, to the Senate.  That they’re stories are not consistent, and they are certainly not what they said to him.  Andrew Speaker’s father brought audio tapes that King played.  Pretty compelling when you hear his side of the story.

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