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Journalist, founder @BeirutReport Words: @ThePublicSource @NovaraMedia @NiemanReports @The_NewArab @Jacobin @Guardian @FortuneMagazine @ArchReview @AJEnglish
Jul 6, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
. @AirFrance told CNN blood and feces I sat in was a “low to nonexistent” risk. Doctors disagree. “In a hospital setting this would’ve been treated as contamination and a biohazard…The plane should have been taken out of service until properly cleaned” cnn.it/3NA5tLM “This is a very unhygienic situation, and we don’t know what the passenger was suffering from or whether it was infective,” said Dr. Richard Dawood. “There are lots of blood-borne viral infections – hepatitis B, C, HIV…
Jul 1, 2023 6 tweets 3 min read
I've seen a few things in my life, but the horrific blood-soaked carpet on my @airfrance plane yesterday was another level! An hour into the transatlantic flight from Paris to Toronto, I kept smelling something gross and couldn't figure it out. Until I got up and looked down...(1 I noticed a big stain across the whole carpet of the seats. It was wet to touch. At first the @airfrance attendant shrugged and gave me some wipes. In my broken French told her it smelled like merde (shit). Then the wipes came up blood red. I used over a dozen of them... (2



Sep 14, 2020 5 tweets 3 min read
Head of PCR testing at a hospital not only refused to wear a mask but mocked those waiting in line for a test, saying they are wasting their time and he hopes everyone gets Coronavirus “to be done with it.” He shouted like a militiaman when asked to wear a mask: “This is my lab”! When I turned my back on this doctor, he tried to push in the door of the testing area, banging on it as if ready for a fist fight, still yelling in a tight space with no mask. He then chased me and my barely walking father to the hospital exit door claiming he already had Corona