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Frontier employee: Airline told cleaning crews to stop wearing masks ( Ebola )
KDVR TV ^ | October 17, 2014 | Justin Joseph

Posted on 10/18/2014 6:02:32 AM PDT by george76

A Denver-based Frontier Airlines employee blames the company for panicking after an Ebola sickened passenger traveled on one of its airplanes.

Now, the employee, speaking anonymously, says the airline is putting employees at risk.

“Frontier hasn`t done enough to train cleaners to get us the proper cleaning solution to clean the plane,”...

“I think I should be able to wear a mask to protect myself,” the employee said.

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“They`re telling us now we can`t wear the mask,” the employee said. “Management said because the passengers would be freaked out by it.”

(Excerpt) Read more at kdvr.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Colorado; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: ebola; ebolaczar; frontier; frontierairlines
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1 posted on 10/18/2014 6:02:32 AM PDT by george76
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Who wants to bet this is because of the new Ebola Czar? The New York Times has an article about the travel ban (how we shouldn’t do that....but we should quarantine)......too much is coming together at once for this story to be a coincidence.

People should panic when a disease with a mortality rate of 70-90%.....that is normal. Yet we are told not to.

This administration will literally have the blood of US citizens on its hands before too long.


2 posted on 10/18/2014 6:10:46 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: george76
My wife cleans houses and wears a paper mask ALL the time in the 'cleanest' and 'nicest' homes

No one says anything and they continue to have her ... one customer is three times a week ... make work, IMO .. but hey .. Liza's happy to work, earn money and I can surf FR unencumbered ...

3 posted on 10/18/2014 6:12:29 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: george76

If the disease doesn’t kill us, the litigation will........


4 posted on 10/18/2014 6:12:45 AM PDT by catfish1957 (Everything I needed to know about Islam was written on 11 Sep 2001)
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To: george76

How would the passengers see them? There are no passengers on the plane while they are cleaning it.

Anyway, the cleaning team for all airlines should be wearing PPE.


5 posted on 10/18/2014 6:13:27 AM PDT by Wage Slave
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To: george76
Everything is about marketing and politics.

The new Ebola Czar is a "political operative" -- because hemorrhagic fever is, above all, a political problem.
Following protocol and protecting your employees? Bad idea because it harms the corporate image.

Our society doesn't live in Reality, we live in some weird parallel universe where appearances count for more than fact.

6 posted on 10/18/2014 6:16:01 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("Now is not the time for fear. That comes later.")
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To: Red in Blue PA

Should be fairly obvious by now that this administration could care less about the blood of American citizens.


7 posted on 10/18/2014 6:18:04 AM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: george76

Drug czar?

Are corporations ever going to remember that tge government works for us?

Maybe after they go under?

Are people still flying non essentially? Because that is coming


8 posted on 10/18/2014 6:19:26 AM PDT by stanne
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To: ClearCase_guy

We are a society for which Ebola was designed for. It will tear through unstoppable.


9 posted on 10/18/2014 6:20:58 AM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: catfish1957
Litigation may be the best way to stop the West African Ebola Immigration
10 posted on 10/18/2014 6:22:44 AM PDT by KSCITYBOY
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To: justa-hairyape

Right. That’s what I told the staffer of my liberal congressman yesterday

Anyone not stopping Bo on this who is in the position to do so will have to answer to their families and to history for what happens

E don’t work for them

Frontier works for the flying public not for the government

And really any airline that is not in major protective mode right now will regret it in a rather short time

Anyone who doesn’t know that no and his stupid mobster administration is either totally unconcerned for our adeptly and well being or worse is addicted to something


11 posted on 10/18/2014 6:28:01 AM PDT by stanne
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To: knarf

I wear a paper mask when working in the garden..The gnats were horrible this year. BUT, I wouldn’t wear one when screwing with possible Ebola problems involved. I have seen these pictures with Paper masks, PAPR equipment,regular respirators with canisters attached. I think to myself, ‘OH, OH.’ If it was me or anybody I was in charge of, it’s full BioHazard suit and SCBA or I’m taking a personal day off.


12 posted on 10/18/2014 6:28:39 AM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: knarf

:My wife cleans houses and wears a paper mask ALL the time in the ‘cleanest’ and ‘nicest’ homes”

Good for her and they’ve been wearing them in Japan for years.

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13 posted on 10/18/2014 6:30:51 AM PDT by Mears
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To: ClearCase_guy

Yes, but reality is hitting us right in the face. I don’t think a good chunk of our people have the stuff to handle it.


14 posted on 10/18/2014 6:33:26 AM PDT by riri (Plannedopolis-look it up. It's how the elites plan for US to live.)
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To: Safetgiver
I agree ... the article doesn't articulate WHAT gear was targeted ... my comment was meant to draw the picture of a tiny Filipina and paper mask working in relatively clean environments, looking like the Chinese walking the streets in everyday life ...

I remember the first day she worked and I commented Americans might think you're weird wearing a mask ..

No one has said a thing

15 posted on 10/18/2014 6:34:23 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: Wage Slave

“How would the passengers see them? There are no passengers on the plane while they are cleaning it.

Anyway, the cleaning team for all airlines should be wearing PPE.

They are probably referring to th4 quick spiff done between flights.

And, yes, all those servicing the airplanes for maintenance and thorough cleaning should have extensive PPE.

They are literally crawling on their hands and knees in the cabins, and suffering multiple scratches and abrasions when doing routine work.


16 posted on 10/18/2014 6:34:56 AM PDT by wrench
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To: stanne

Are people still flying non essentially? Because that is coming


As I see it, that’s a major goal of the ‘elites’. No travel of the peons makes it easier to manipulate them as they cannot get a reality based ‘first hand’ impression of places that are not ‘home’.


17 posted on 10/18/2014 6:38:51 AM PDT by The Working Man
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To: george76
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Frontier Airlines (and the industry) needs to be very careful with all of this.

At this point, upon hearing this story about Fontier's Management's attitude ...

I would REFUSE to board any of their flights, even a short connecting trip.



It just occured to me that the GREAT business opportunity here for an Airline ...

is to require a close medical exam of passengers before departure (i.e. the "Ebola Detection Machine" rumored to be in Dallas) ...

to ensure that the plane's 200+ passengers are reasonable safe for the flight.

Sure, such tickets would be expensive, but at least you'd still be alive 30 days later.



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18 posted on 10/18/2014 6:38:57 AM PDT by Patton@Bastogne
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To: Mears
Filipina's are fanatical clean freaks.

I have small scatter rugs, on top of the carpeting, linoleum and wood floor (a small section) and I forget what color my wall to wall is.

She does dishes like at a Chinese reastaurant ... almost as soon as your done with your plate (even though she's still eating), she slips out of her chair, takes it to the sink, rinses quickly and sits back down quicker'n a fly fleeing the swatter.

I smile and thank God a dozen times a day for her.

19 posted on 10/18/2014 6:40:31 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: Patton@Bastogne
I think a relatively inexpensive detector could be developed (if not already) that would scan body temp ....

101 ?

Step aside, sir

20 posted on 10/18/2014 6:42:48 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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