> According to the latest court filings, Chief of Corrections Patricia Jackson said she received a copy of the bench warrant and was assigned “to handle this matter in compliance with the Court’s Orders.”
> In the April 3 filing, Jackson reported that she had “directed an officer to surveil the respondent to determine her habits in order to execute the warrant in a safe manner.”
> The filing states that the officer “observed a person they believed to be respondent leave her residence, get onto a city bus, and arrive at a local casino.”
> It added that in the following days, “the officer continued surveillance only to find respondent was not home.”
> It states that the woman’s relatives also had not responded in attempts to contact her, adding that it was believed at this point the woman “is actively avoiding execution of the warrant.”
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> Denise Stinson, communicable disease control program manager for the health department, has been the department’s representing health officer in the case filings, which date back to more than a year ago.
> In an April 3 court filing, Stinson said, “Respondent’s failure to comply with the court’s orders requires further action, up to and including detention in Pierce County Jail … .“
> The woman faced her first order for quarantine or isolation in mid-January 2022. The court issued subsequent orders through the year, culminating in the March order of contempt and an arrest warrant.
> The woman’s court-appointed attorney, Sarah Tofflemire, suggested in a filing Wednesday, which was obtained by The Tacoma News Tribune newspaper, that part of the reason the woman has been refusing treatment is because she does not understand what is happening. And Tofflemire requested that a guardian be appointed to help her.
> “She has not acknowledged the existence of her own medical condition,” Tofflemire said, noting that when she has taken part in court proceedings “she has spoken out of turn with rapid, disorganized speech.”
> “She has primarily focused on how she dislikes papers coming to her home, and not the import of the process in which she finds herself,” Tofflemire stated. “She has repeatedly threatened suicide in relationship to papers being served upon her home.”
> NBC News has reached out to Tofflemire for comment but she has not responded.
> Local health officials said that a court-certified interpreter has been present at every court hearing and that Tofflemire, from the moment she was appointed the woman’s attorney in March 2022, has had numerous opportunities to request a guardian.
As for those who don’t know much about TB (Tuberculosis), when untreated (or can’t be treated if its an extremely antibiotic resistant type), it will sometimes kill people over the span of months to years by slowly destroying the lungs and other organs. Many others become latent carriers which they can infect others without showing symptoms.
> In 2018, one quarter of the world’s population was thought to have a latent infection of TB.[6] New infections occur in about 1% of the population each year.[12] In 2020, an estimated 10 million people developed active TB, resulting in 1.5 million deaths, making it the second leading cause of death from an infectious disease after COVID-19.[13]
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> TB infection begins when the mycobacteria reach the alveolar air sacs of the lungs, where they invade and replicate within endosomes of alveolar macrophages.[15][59][60] Macrophages identify the bacterium as foreign and attempt to eliminate it by phagocytosis. During this process, the bacterium is enveloped by the macrophage and stored temporarily in a membrane-bound vesicle called a phagosome. The phagosome then combines with a lysosome to create a phagolysosome. In the phagolysosome, the cell attempts to use reactive oxygen species and acid to kill the bacterium. However, M. tuberculosis has a thick, waxy mycolic acid capsule that protects it from these toxic substances. M. tuberculosis is able to reproduce inside the macrophage and will eventually kill the immune cell.
TLDR: It says “no” to immune cells trying to kill it, and kills the macrophages instead from the inside out.
So I’m assuming the line between violating HIPAA or notifying the public to be on the lookout for a dangerous individual carrying a deadly disease is right here… since they won’t name her or put out a photo so people can avoid her.
Crazy that she has more protection than the people she’s probably going to kill with TB.
COMPUTER1313 says
> According to the latest court filings, Chief of Corrections Patricia Jackson said she received a copy of the bench warrant and was assigned “to handle this matter in compliance with the Court’s Orders.”
> In the April 3 filing, Jackson reported that she had “directed an officer to surveil the respondent to determine her habits in order to execute the warrant in a safe manner.”
> The filing states that the officer “observed a person they believed to be respondent leave her residence, get onto a city bus, and arrive at a local casino.”
> It added that in the following days, “the officer continued surveillance only to find respondent was not home.”
> It states that the woman’s relatives also had not responded in attempts to contact her, adding that it was believed at this point the woman “is actively avoiding execution of the warrant.”
…
> Denise Stinson, communicable disease control program manager for the health department, has been the department’s representing health officer in the case filings, which date back to more than a year ago.
> In an April 3 court filing, Stinson said, “Respondent’s failure to comply with the court’s orders requires further action, up to and including detention in Pierce County Jail … .“
> The woman faced her first order for quarantine or isolation in mid-January 2022. The court issued subsequent orders through the year, culminating in the March order of contempt and an arrest warrant.
Digging up an older article of that same woman: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/arrest-warrant-issued-woman-refused-tuberculosis-treatment-rcna73306
> The woman’s court-appointed attorney, Sarah Tofflemire, suggested in a filing Wednesday, which was obtained by The Tacoma News Tribune newspaper, that part of the reason the woman has been refusing treatment is because she does not understand what is happening. And Tofflemire requested that a guardian be appointed to help her.
> “She has not acknowledged the existence of her own medical condition,” Tofflemire said, noting that when she has taken part in court proceedings “she has spoken out of turn with rapid, disorganized speech.”
> “She has primarily focused on how she dislikes papers coming to her home, and not the import of the process in which she finds herself,” Tofflemire stated. “She has repeatedly threatened suicide in relationship to papers being served upon her home.”
> NBC News has reached out to Tofflemire for comment but she has not responded.
> Local health officials said that a court-certified interpreter has been present at every court hearing and that Tofflemire, from the moment she was appointed the woman’s attorney in March 2022, has had numerous opportunities to request a guardian.
As for those who don’t know much about TB (Tuberculosis), when untreated (or can’t be treated if its an extremely antibiotic resistant type), it will sometimes kill people over the span of months to years by slowly destroying the lungs and other organs. Many others become latent carriers which they can infect others without showing symptoms.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuberculosis
> In 2018, one quarter of the world’s population was thought to have a latent infection of TB.[6] New infections occur in about 1% of the population each year.[12] In 2020, an estimated 10 million people developed active TB, resulting in 1.5 million deaths, making it the second leading cause of death from an infectious disease after COVID-19.[13]
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> TB infection begins when the mycobacteria reach the alveolar air sacs of the lungs, where they invade and replicate within endosomes of alveolar macrophages.[15][59][60] Macrophages identify the bacterium as foreign and attempt to eliminate it by phagocytosis. During this process, the bacterium is enveloped by the macrophage and stored temporarily in a membrane-bound vesicle called a phagosome. The phagosome then combines with a lysosome to create a phagolysosome. In the phagolysosome, the cell attempts to use reactive oxygen species and acid to kill the bacterium. However, M. tuberculosis has a thick, waxy mycolic acid capsule that protects it from these toxic substances. M. tuberculosis is able to reproduce inside the macrophage and will eventually kill the immune cell.
TLDR: It says “no” to immune cells trying to kill it, and kills the macrophages instead from the inside out.
And sometimes TB leads to stuff such as skeletal destruction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pott_disease
scribblebear says
She also work in a soup kitchen?
CanadasNeighbor says
So I’m assuming the line between violating HIPAA or notifying the public to be on the lookout for a dangerous individual carrying a deadly disease is right here… since they won’t name her or put out a photo so people can avoid her.
Crazy that she has more protection than the people she’s probably going to kill with TB.
BirdsbirdsBURDS says
Is her name Mary? I hope it’s Mary.