rant alert: moldy airport
Once upon a time people thought the world was flat. People had opinions about it. It says here that if you get some opinionated people and scan their brains, they have an emotional dial that makes them feel better about their opinions. The dial fixes it so they can care deeply about hating the other guys, but they can tune out anything that challenges their opinions. I think that's probably how those screaming debate shows work - each side can see the other's inconsistencies, but they can't see their own.
Anyway, now everybody pretty much agrees that the world is round, but people have opinions about whether or not mold or chemicals in their buildings can make people sick. Today I learned that the Denver International Airport has been aware of mold problems in Concourse B and de-icing chemicals leaking into the Red Carpet Club, not to mention local waterways, pretty much since it was built, and it doesn't sound like they've done anything about it.
My husband and I, on our do-or-die plane ride to scope out Tucson, changed planes in the infamous Concourse B a year and a half after that article was written. There was enough mold in there that we went looking for better air, which turned out to be away from the carpets, which were pretty much everywhere. When we did the early-boarding thing, parents with small children let us go first because we did not look good. We started to feel better on the plane (on the plane!), and then started to feel worse again when the girl who'd been sitting on the carpet came to sit next to us. That's contaminated.
People are getting sick in Concourse B; lawsuits have been filed. So when I read that airport managers are scratching their heads over a plunge in customer satisfaction, and airport spokesman Chuck Cannon was quoted as saying "We can control how clean the bathrooms are ... but there's just a lot of it that's out of our hands," it just makes me want to go over there and hit somebody. Also (from the previous spokesman, Steve Snyder, in the first article), "The traveling public is in absolutely no danger."
Um, Steve? We were in danger.
Anyway, now everybody pretty much agrees that the world is round, but people have opinions about whether or not mold or chemicals in their buildings can make people sick. Today I learned that the Denver International Airport has been aware of mold problems in Concourse B and de-icing chemicals leaking into the Red Carpet Club, not to mention local waterways, pretty much since it was built, and it doesn't sound like they've done anything about it.
My husband and I, on our do-or-die plane ride to scope out Tucson, changed planes in the infamous Concourse B a year and a half after that article was written. There was enough mold in there that we went looking for better air, which turned out to be away from the carpets, which were pretty much everywhere. When we did the early-boarding thing, parents with small children let us go first because we did not look good. We started to feel better on the plane (on the plane!), and then started to feel worse again when the girl who'd been sitting on the carpet came to sit next to us. That's contaminated.
People are getting sick in Concourse B; lawsuits have been filed. So when I read that airport managers are scratching their heads over a plunge in customer satisfaction, and airport spokesman Chuck Cannon was quoted as saying "We can control how clean the bathrooms are ... but there's just a lot of it that's out of our hands," it just makes me want to go over there and hit somebody. Also (from the previous spokesman, Steve Snyder, in the first article), "The traveling public is in absolutely no danger."
Um, Steve? We were in danger.
posted by missmolly at 9:26 PM
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