Joshua Dean, one of the first whistleblowers to allege Spirit AeroSystems execs had ignored manufacturing defects on the 737 MAX, died after a sudden illness.
    • huginn@feddit.itEnglish
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      2 years ago

      He went to the hostpital for trouble breathing.

      In the hospital he was intubated. He got pneumonia and then MRSA in his blood.

      • 0x0@programming.devOPEnglish
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        2 years ago

        If pneumonia got him into the hospital he could’ve gotten MRSA in the hospital.

          • Zipitydew@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            2 years ago

            This sounds almost exactly like what happened to a colleague of mine last year. Guy aspirated some food. Lead to an infection. Turned into pneumonia. Died.

            All that happened within 1 week.

    • pandapoo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 years ago

      It’s the chain of events that could be suspicious, or totally random.

      A person has trouble breathing, which could have been induced, or just bad luck, then goes to hospital and dies of MRSA - which also could have been induced, or just bad luck.

      The most logical explanation is that bad things happen to people all the time and it’s usually not murder.

      However, because of the widespread press coverage of the previous “suicide”, it makes sense that if additional whistleblowers were being killed, that the methods would grow increasingly complex and obfuscated.

      Remember, these were all long time employees. Boeing is going to have all sorts of information on them, including their medical history and that’s not even factoring in the resources they have available.

      It’s not hard to imagine that they would know how to create a situation where a person gets hospitalized, without causing suspicion, and have the resources to finish them off inside that hospital with something like a rapid MRSA infection.

      Or maybe all this means is that corporations really are people and Boeing is the reincarnation of Jesus Christ. Now, God is an enacting revenge on the people who have testified against his favorite son, and our Savior: Jesus Boeing Christ.

      • Billiam@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 years ago

        However, because of the widespread press coverage of the previous “suicide”, it makes sense that if additional whistleblowers were being killed, that the methods would grow increasingly complex and obfuscated.

        This only matters if 1) you don’t want anyone to know it was you, or 2) you want people to know it was you to send a message, and you’re not afraid of any repercussions.

        • pandapoo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          2 years ago

          If you’re Boeing, or even just a rogue Boeing executive/team, the best way to make sure you fail at this would be to leave an obvious trail of bodies.

          These ambiguous deaths are plausibly unrelated enough to justify no one looking too closely, but are clear enough for their intended audience.

          Hell, even if Boeing just got insanely “lucky” and these two deaths are as they appear, it’s still going to have a massive chilling effect on anyone else who might have been considering coming forward.

  • just_another_person@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    He was 45, had been in good health and was noted for having a healthy lifestyle.

    Looks like Boeing is just taking a page right out of Russians books and doing obvious murders in the open now.

    • Liz@midwest.socialEnglish
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      2 years ago

      He died from a MRSA infection, which can and does kill people at any stage of life. That shit is everywhere, but whether you get sick or not is kinda a crap shoot.

        • deranger@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          2 years ago

          I’d like one example where MRSA has been used for bioterrorism. Never heard of it when I was a medical lab tech in the military, nor as a medical lab scientist later in my life. Bioterrorism is extremely rare, and MRSA is a poor choice for a biological weapon.

          E. coli O157:H7 would be a better choice, or Vibrio, or really any of the enteric pathogens introduced to food or water supplies.

          • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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            2 years ago

            Well, the 1984 bioterror attack associated with the Rajneeshee was done with salmonella. The question this raises is if there are any advantages to cultivating it as an assassin’s weapon.

            I’m not saying I know it is, only that the two associated deaths make for a pretty amazing coincidence.

            • deranger@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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              2 years ago

              Salmonella is not MRSA (methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus). The point I was trying to make is Staph isn’t a good bioterrorism agent. It doesn’t spread like weaponized anthrax, it’s not particularly deadly, and it can’t be spread by food/water like the enteric pathogens. It’s just not suitable or we’d have researched the fuck out of it at USAMRIID.

  • TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    Hey guys, unless I missed Boeing getting into biological warfare, I’m pretty sure an infection had nothing to do with them. It’s funny to circlejerk though, I know.