FOX: A Wisconsin man is facing criminal charges after he allegedly defied health officials’ orders to stay away from the public because he had the measles.
Jeffery Murawski, 57, was ordered by the Waukesha County Health Department to stay home in May 2018 because he was seemingly infected by the highly contagious disease, Fox affiliate WITI reported on Tuesday.
Instead of staying home until it was determined he wasn’t contagious, Murawski allegedly went to a Gold’s Gym to work out. According to prosecutors, “he felt very guilty,” and left the gym after a few minutes.
Sheriff’s deputies reportedly stood guard outside Murawsky’s home in Brookfield while he was supposed to be quarantined. Prosecutors claimed he was able to leave his home because he “hid in his wife’s vehicle” so as not to be seen by authorities.
Murawski and his wife, 58-year-old Christine Bennett, were pulled over by a Waukesha County deputy. Bennett reportedly told authorities she participated in the plan “against her better judgment.” Murawski apologized “profusely,” but told officials “he needed to get out of the house because he was going crazy.” more
During the early years of the HIV epidemic, a number of states implemented HIV-specific criminal exposure laws, actual transmission of the disease was not a factor, the reckless behavior was.
Since some folks actually do die from measles I don’t see why similar laws can’t be used here. Both criminal and civil penalties should apply.
Horsewhip the SOB
Yet illegals run around the country with all kinds of diseases and they do nothing to them. Leave the man alone. Enforce illegal laws then go talk to the guy and tell him to stay home. TB is rampant among illegals and hepatitis too.
if he is lonely and ‘going crazy,’ they should get him some illegals with multi drug resistant TB to share his quarters with during quarantine. Thay can complain to each other.
No, he shouldn’t be overlooked, as the deputies obviously did. He should be held accountable, financially and civil, for any person who contracts measles from exposure to him. His recklessness has caused others to be exposed to the most communicable disease known.
Chain him to the radiator in his bathroom at least.
“Honey, I’m goin’ crazy cooped up in this house.”
“Would you like to go somewhere outdoors and secluded?”
“Nah babe, I need to go indoors and get sweaty with a lot of other people.”
Here in Illinois, before we got married 30 years ago, we had to have an AIDS test before the state would issue a marriage license. If I remember correctly, we were higher than kites. Ah, the ‘good’ old days.
Typhoid Mary becomes Measles Murawsk.
Why couldn’t He have went to Bad Brads Gym
Reminds me of this prison announcement:
“Jim privileges have been revoked because Jim was paroled”
(sounds better on the radio)
Make him pay the medical bills and or funeral expenses of every measles victim in Wisconsin.
All for a measly workout
Ever wonder about the derivation of the word “measly”, which does (or did) mean weak, pathetic, insignificant
It might come from measles — cause measles certainly does reduce you to being weak and pathetic
Don’t know about Measles, but I got Chicken Pox at age 28, and spent 2 of the most miserable weeks in my life with them.
Anything other than bath & bed would have been out of the question.