Trump was 'furious' that 14 Americans infected with coronavirus boarded a plane back to the US from Japan without his permission, which officials admit was a 'big mistake'

Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 22 February 2020 | KEITH GRIFFITH

[healy61]

I suspect an intentional criminal act. Trump needs to start kicking some serious ass.

[SaveFerris]

[Somebody(s) in real trouble. If this stuff spreads there will be nowhere to hide. I suspect this is a criminal Democrat act.]

Just saying...Some Obama holdovers and/or loyal Hillaryites.

[Syncro]

So Obama’s guys are still making decisions for the USA, via the State Dept.?

[PrairieLady2]

Fire the SOB! Better yet, reassign him to patient carw of corona virus victims...withou any protective gear.

[Hostage]

[sauropod]

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[metmom]

....we may have individuals who are willing to sacrifice public health for political purposes

I am certain of it.

And there was NO reason whatsoever, that a separate plane could not have been sent for those who tested positive.

It would be far cheaper in the long run than the cost of an epidemic sweeping the country.

[OKSooner]

So, here it is Sunday morning...

What apparatchik has been fired and made famous... possibly indicted for negligent endangerment or whatever?

[ferret_airlift]

The punishment should fit the crime. They shipped in the sickness, they get to help observe and treat it.

[hanamizu]

Which “people in the know” are you talking about , specifically?

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Well, whoever is running China, for one. Welding people into their homes, shutting off cities the size of NYC, etc. doing God knows what to their economy. The Japanese basically enforcing a quarantine on a ‘plague ship’ only to see over 600 come down with the virus. Korea is putting the sick in high rises that are surrounded by soldiers to keep them in and others out. And then there are the ‘flight attendants’ on the American evacuation flights wearing self-contained haz-mat suits.

This all indicates to me (as I adjust my tin-foil hat) that this virus is being viewed with a bit more seriousness than the typical ‘please wear a face mask and be sure to wash your hands’ flu.

[Jamestown1630]

I mean that I don’t believe we have been adequately prepared for bioterrorism. It has nothing to do with Trump, I think he’s doing the best he can. But we’ve known about this possibility for a very long time, long before Trump, and I believe we’ve neglected it.

The fact that some people now want to use that against Trump is a different issue.

[Jamestown1630]

There’s so much we don’t know - given the possibly long incubation periods and asymptomatic infection, how was it possible to know who was actually infected?

[grey_whiskers]

I heard somewhere that it was Ian Brownlee... here’s his background:

Ian G. Brownlee became the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs in February 2019. Previously he had served as an Inspector in the Office of the Inspector General.

Mr. Brownlee’s previous experience includes serving as the Minister Counselor for Consular and Consulate Affairs in Mexico, where he was responsible for coordination of consular operations across Mission Mexico’s nine consulates general and the embassy.

Prior to that, he was the Director of the State Department’s Office of Central American Affairs, where he was responsible for the implementation of the U.S. Strategy for Engagement in Central America. From 2012-2015, Mr. Brownlee was the Principal Officer at the U.S. Consulate General in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

Mr. Brownlee’s previous tours in the U.S. Foreign Service include as the Deputy Director of the State Department’s Office of Mexican Affairs, as Executive Assistant to the Assistant Secretaries for Western Hemisphere Affairs and Consular Affairs, and in consular management positions in Tegucigalpa, Honduras and San Jose, Costa Rica. He also served in Matamoros, Mexico and Santiago, Chile.

[dfwgator]

The Deep State isn’t going to let this crisis go to waste. Trump cannot trust anybody.

[grey_whiskers]

One of the officials arguing they should all be flown home together was Robert Kadlec, assistant secretary for preparedness and response for the Department of Health and Human Services and a member of the task force.

“It was like the worst nightmare,” said a senior U.S. official involved in the decision, speaking on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations. “Quite frankly, the alternative could have been pulling grandma out in the pouring rain, and that would have been bad, too.”

Eventually the buses arrived at the airport, and once again, everyone waited while top officials in Washington argued about the test results, according to a senior administration official.

“Nobody anticipated getting these results,” said another U.S. official involved in the evacuation.

During one call, the CDC’s principal deputy director, Anne Schuchat, argued against taking the infected Americans on the plane, according to two participants. She noted the U.S. government had already told passengers they would not be evacuated with anyone who was infected or who showed symptoms. She was also concerned about infection control.

Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who was also on the calls, recalled saying her points were valid and should be considered.

But Robert Kadlec, assistant secretary for preparedness and response for the Department of Health and Human Services and a member of the coronavirus task force, pushed back: Officials had already prepared the plane to handle passengers who might develop symptoms on the long flight, he argued. The two Boeing 747s had 18 seats cordoned off with 10-foot-high plastic on all four sides. Infectious disease doctors would also be onboard.

“We felt like we had very experienced hands in evaluating and caring for these patients,” Kadlec said at a news briefing Monday.

“It’s important to remember this was an emerging and unusual circumstance,” said Principal Deputy Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of Consular Affairs, Ian Brownlee.

sources: various ZeroHedge and Washington Post articles.

[grey_whiskers]

Coronavirus is unlike dark humor.

Everybody gets it.

[grey_whiskers]

Found on ZeroHedge:

1)

Think of all all the flies in Wuhan currently laying eggs in weeks old bodies trapped in apartments, then landing on what little food people have. They’ll eat it no matter how many flies have been around it.

2) I also read somewhere today that a couple of those crematoriums in Wuhan, (which have multiple chambers) have some chambers *burned out* from overuse.