• Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    No that’s the problem. Once someone is in a hospital there’s a paper trail a mile long. If you wanted to assassinate someone then the hospital is the last place you would do it. You’d need to pay off a hundred people and hope none of them ever decides to talk. Or you start killing them off but then how long does it take big data FBI to connect those dots?

    If guy number 2 was somehow DOA at the hospital or already infected with something irreversible then you’d have a case. But flu to hospital MRSA case to Stroke just isn’t how anyone who cared about remaining free and anonymous would kill someone.

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      3 months ago

      One person. That’s all it takes.

      They find the person shopping or something, routine. Spritz some flu into their face. (Well, more discretely, but yeah.)

      They go to the hospital, pay the guy a visit when, spritz some MRSA on his linens or something. Plenty of opportunity. Even better, spritz it on everyone’s linens so it looks like an outbreak.

      Slip in, visit the guy and inject a stroke causing drug. Maybe even something as innocuous as just injecting an air bubble into his artery.

      Maybe a small support team. But really, you think Boeing doesn’t already have a hitter on the payroll?

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        3 months ago

        This isn’t Hollywood. You can’t just walk into an ICU ward and inject someone.

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          3 months ago

          Well, I have not done the injecting bit, but I have just walked into more than one ICU… It’s not hard. Nurses and security both are over staffed and underpaid.

          (I work in contract security- at one point part of my job was pen testing. Chilled with an interesting fellow named Edgar, while waiting to get caught. Didn’t have anyone to talk to, so, we just chatted. Mostly he chatted.)

          harder at night but only because there’s fewer people.

          Unless there’s a specific reason someone needs high security… the security is largely a joke.

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      3 months ago

      There have been multiple nurses that have killed people over periods of years.

      It’s nowhere near as impossible as you seem to think it is.

      Charles Cullen, a nurse, murdered dozens—possibly hundreds—of patients during a 16-year career spanning several New Jersey and Pennsylvania medical centers until being arrested in 2003.

      William Davis, who worked at Christus Mother Frances Hospital in Tyler, Texas, fatally injected four patients with air.

      Nurse Heather Pressdee pleaded guilty to three counts of first-degree murder and 19 counts of criminal attempt to commit murder.

      Reta Mays, a former nursing assistant, killed seven elderly veterans with fatal injections of insulin at a West Virginia hospital.

      The list sadly goes on and on and on. There’s even an entire Wikipedia article about it. And those are just the crazies that did for their own enjoyment.

      You’re blissfully very naïve about this.

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        3 months ago

        I’m really not. Serial killers exist isn’t evidence it’s easy to get away with killing in a hospital. In fact the very existence of the list proves they’re getting caught.

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          Countless evidence of people commiting multiple murders, sometimes for decades at a time, and that somehow means one person couldn’t possibly be killed in the same setting…

          So you’re not naive, you’re just willfully stupid. Got it.

          Good luck with that.