Posted on 02/22/2020 6:49:42 PM PST by Mount Athos
President Donald Trump is reportedly furious after underlings at the State Department decided to fly 14 Diamond Princess passengers who tested positive for coronavirus back to the U.S. without telling him, and against his wishes.
Trump had been told last Saturday that only evacuees who didn't have symptoms or positive test results would be allowed on State Department charter planes back to the US from Japan, according to the Washington Post.
Officials on the ground realized late in the evacuation process, on the airport tarmac in Tokyo, that 14 of the roughly 350 evacuees had tested positive for the virus.
State Department underlings made the quick decision to allow the infected citizens onto the flights, but separated from the other passengers within portable bio-containment units that were already on the planes, in case passengers showed symptoms during the flight.
Trump learned of the decision only after the fact and was angry that he wasn't consulted first, complaining that the decision could damage his administration's handling of the response, administration officials told the Post.
On Friday, the CDC said there were now 28 U.S. residents brought home from the Diamond Princess cruise ship who have tested positive for the virus.
Those who tested positive for coronavirus are receiving medical care in top-level medical isolation units.
The State Department underlings countermanded the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in ruling that the infected citizens could return to the U.S. on the evacuation flights.
Sources involved in the decision told the Washington Post that CDC staunchly warned the State Department against transporting infected and uninfected people side-by-side, but were ultimately overruled.
Before the passengers were brought back, there were only 15 confirmed cases in the U.S., a number that has more than doubled thanks to the Diamond Princess evacuees.
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Somebody(s) in real trouble. If this stuff spreads there will be nowhere to hide. I suspect this is a criminal act.
[Deep] State Department underlings, my ass. They did it on higher orders. Identify that official!
“The Buck Stops Here”.
Trump had better realize there are those at Foggy Bottom that are looking to engineer a crisis that will result in Trump losing the election, so they can return to “Business as Usual”.
I would be furious too, especially if I was told it wouldn’t happen.
The apparatchiks at State have been a nexus of the enemy within since at least the 1930s.
You’d think even Department of State folks could figure that out.
And then again, maybe not.
Purposely!! Don’t ever doubt anything by accident when the Evil swamp is involved!! Please dear God let this evil plan by the swamp backfire and all those that deplaned don’t have the virus!! Please lord you are mighty and full of miracles!!
And all the rest of those people on the plane have been exposed and are likely incubating it.
What about them?
AMEN!!!!
Please protect us from those who are out to destroy us.
The evil involved in deliberately sacrificing human lives to further their agenda is staggering, and will be accounted for some day.
I’m sure some of these “resist” aholes are involved. We are talking about foggy bottom. The same cesspool which was formerly led by Hitlery and horse face.
12k have died from the flu this season in the US alone.
“5 Million Cases Worldwide, 650,000 Deaths Annually: The Seasonal Flu Virus is a “Serious Concern”, But the Wuhan Coronavirus Grabs the Headlines”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/flu-bigger-concern-wuhan-virus-grabs-headlines/5701932
“those at Foggy Bottom that are looking to engineer a crisis that will result in Trump losing the election”
Bingo.
State Dept is run by socialists, and has been for decades.
ok, but realize flu mostly kill old, young, and immune compromised.
while 1918 superflu kill otherwise healthy people — very very different situation.
This probably won’t mutate into something like that but it could
I’ll bet it will spin out and not become even as bad as the normal flu.
Make the state department officials take care of the exposed citizens in quarantine
The NYT has posted this news; and made the point that Trump is a ‘self-declared germophobe’.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/22/us/politics/trump-coronavirus-cruise-ship.html
Sure, out of dozens of sars like virus that jump species in hundreds of years, vast majority of them will peter out after a couple months.
But one of those dozens of virus will kill tens millions, more than any war. Which one? Who knows
Identify them and fire them, if they can be fired under the laws governing the Foreign Service. We might want to put the military in charge of this entirely so that the next time something like this can happen the persons responsible can be prosecuted under the UCMJ.
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