$4B losses in a day. Well-played, asstards.
And mad propz to Krapperdick: fifty years ago, if an unemployed black man had stolen so much as a single football jersey, he'd be on a chain gang the same week. But this week, Krapperdick has deliberately torched a multinational business, and just as Lenin predicted, the owners are paying him to do it.
Smartest guys in the board room, right there.
Shareholders will doubtless be ecstatic.
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Not germane but thought you should see this
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2018/09/05/worst-flight-ever-a-woman-is-live-tweeting-from-the-quarantined-emirates-flight-at-jfk-airport-and-it-sounds-really-really-awful/?utm_campaign=twitchywidget
Not good...
Boat Guy
Well, you most certainly were prophetically
correct to worry about the current Ebola
outbreak possibly burning loose of Africa.
Check out the masthead at Drudge and
the multiple links.
Here's one: http://www.fox5ny.com/news/emergency-crews-respond-to-reports-of-sick-plane-passengers
Heads up,
Federal Health Officials Meet Plane at JFK Airport After Passengers Report Feeling Ill
Posted 8:37 AM, September 5, 2018, by CNN Wire
Federal health officials met a plane landing at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Wednesday after passengers reported feeling ill, according to sources.
Emirates Flight 203, which originated in Dubai, was carrying about 500 passengers and landed around 9:06 a.m. ET, a source said.
“I asked the (flight attendant) for a mask before we even took off, but there was none available,” passenger Erin Sykes told CNN from the plane. “It was so obvious that a large number of people were ill well before take-off.”
The nonstop flight was a smooth one, Sykes said, so she didn’t believe the ailments were related to turbulence or air sickness.
“People were coughing the whole time. Now some people have fevers over 100,” she said. “They should never had been allowed to board.”
While a source with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey initially said as many as 100 passengers reported feeling ill, the airline said only about 10 passengers had “taken ill.”
“As a precaution, they were immediately checked by local health authorities and those needing medical attention will be attended to,” Emirates said in a statement. “All other passengers will be disembarking shortly.”
Seven crew members and five passengers were taken to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, the port authority source said. Other passengers are still being evaluated, the source said.
Passenger Larry Coben declined to speak to the media, but his tweets documented ambulances converging on the tarmac after the plane landed, CDC forms that the passengers were asked to complete, passengers disembarking and having their temperatures taken, and passengers then taking a bus to the terminal.
“Happy to report that I am through customs and on my way home,” he tweeted just after 11 a.m. ET.
Port authority spokesman Scott Ladd referred questions to the state Department of Health, but he did confirm health officials were on the scene. Health department officials could not immediately be reached for comment.
The plane was taken to a “hard standing area,” where paramedics and officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were responding to the scene, the source said.
The CDC said it was aware passengers “are reporting an unspecified illness” aboard an Emirates flight and health officials are working with local authorities to investigate the cause.
A number of links with this zerohedge article: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-05/emirates-flight-quarantined-new-york-after-100-passengers-get-sick
Thanks guys, I already saw Drudge. He's a regular check-in.
Check my comments re: Ebola.
One of the possibilities I mentioned was contagion spreading to Mecca during the hajj, and thenceward to all corners of the globe.
Prognostication based on obvious common sense ain't rocket surgery.
My job is to play "What if...?"
This outbreak is supposedly "only" cholera; this time.
So, wouldn't the right way to handle this have been to isolate the entire passenger and crew manifest for the prescribed number of days? Or at least until all of the sick could have been tested for Ebola?
Photo link (religon of peace passenger compliment) from twitter account of female passenger-twitter.com/SykesStyle: https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/09/05/15/4FBC731100000578-6134833-image-m-57_1536159467938.jpg
NYPD doughnut swiller orders "No Pictures!"
https://twitter.com/SykesStyle/status/1037362604769984513/video/1
@Anon 11:38A
Yes, exactly.
Well done, padawan.
And TPTB didn't do that in any way, shape or form, but instead smeared the exposure around to 50 ambulance crews and multiple ERs, and the staff and patients there.
So, analyzing Premise #1 and Premise #2, what do you think is going to happen here, logically, if (or rather, when) this or any other incident turns out to be Ebola...?
@Anon 11:45A
If you won't control the outbreak, try to control the information flow.
.Gov totalitarianism 101, Lesson 1.
{cf.: 2014, HopeyDopey telling the media to STFU about Ebola}
Yes, but not just Ebola.
Every person on that plane should
be quarantined for a standard period
of time and given a thorough battery
of tests for a number of communicable
diseases, and other culprits that caused
this.
And I'm certain you know that
not displaying signs of illness and an
elevated temperature, upon departing
the plane and release into general population,
means absolutely nothing for guaranteeing
a clean bill of health.
Here we go again.
Something good came out this biological
threat this morning: Rapper Vanilla Ice Was on John F. Kennedy Contagion Flight From Dubai
(https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/vanilla-ice-emirates-plane-jfk-sick-cdc-new-york-quarantine-492522041.html)
We can only hope he goes home, without infecting
anyone, does a solo outbreak dance and dies.
Not to change the subject but does anyone know if Ole Remus is ok over at the Woodpile Report?
Ol' Remus is a private man.
Whatever happened a couple of weeks back, recovery is always something that can take a bit o' time.
While we miss this week's posting, we compliment him on his dignity, and wish him nothing but our best for continued good health.
Boss, y' might check the "Baby Steps" comments...
Looks like MERs-CoV is on the prowl again...
Alternate theory - Nike use this as an opportunity to buyback shares
Which cements the loss in concrete, drains the company's cash reserves, and only helps if they renounce their error, and nurture the stock back to pre-crash valuations, which does nothing for shareholders who have to eat the loss.
It's the equivalent of Wile E. Coyote tying himself to the falling anvil to cushion his impact.
For companies that sweat 25-cent share increases, this is the kind of thing that gets boards removed.
RE Nike. Now THIS is entertainment. It's like the old "retired" mob guy sitting back chuckling while reading the paper in the movie "Absence of Malice", at what he know Paul Newman's character to be wreaking on TPTB trying to screw him.
The graph (thanks for that) in the previous post is a great one that should be in "common core" for any object lesson in the classroom. How long did Napoleon ponder go/go-back before deciding to retreat from Moscow? Gee-whiz this is amusing.
Aesop, with respect to the company's cash reserves; that is for naught if you have, say China and proxy NORK backing you. Sundance had an interesting take on this particular shit storm. Namely, why would a company commit the obviously wrong PR blunder? Why would they hitch their wagon to a failed star? Why would they suffer such huge internal destruction in the name of 'the cause'?
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