Posted on 01/28/2020 6:27:36 AM PST by RummyChick
The Chinese partners of US citizens have been banned from a rescue flight to evacuate Americans from the city of Wuhan amid a deadly outbreak of coronavirus.
A charter flight is scheduled to fly from the Wuhan Tianhe International Airport to San Francisco International Airport on Tuesday.
The US consulate in Wuhan began reaching out to all Americans registered as living in the city last week to offer them a seat on the plane. There are roughly 1,000 Americans in the city.
Benjamin Wilson, who is from Louisiana but living in the epicenter of the disease with his Chinese wife and seven-year-old daughter, said he will not be taking the jet home as he 'wouldn't leave his wife'.
He told The Wall Street Journal: 'I would consider sending my daughter, if that were an option. But I wouldn't leave my wife. But if my wife and daughter could travel together, then absolutely yes.'
China on Tuesday reported 25 more deaths from a new viral disease, raising the total to at least 106, as the US government prepared to fly Americans out of the city at the center of the outbreak.
Priscilla Dickie, from Vermont, told the paper she had a seat on the flight home, along with her eight-year-old daughter, but was not sure how she would get to the airport. She said: 'I have secured a seat, but the problem is transportation.'
One American citizen is said to be not boarding the flight for fear of 'getting sick from people on the plane and potentially bringing it back to us', according to the man's daughter.
Other American citizens have taken to social media to describe their current living conditions in the city.
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Well, if they aren’t US citizens and if China says all of its citizens have to stay or return to China, then this is completely healthy and good.
Please read this carefully. It’s the top comment on the Zerohedge piece linked here below.
“I just read a German report from Bavaria that they got one confirmed case in isolation. That patient, a German, works at an international factory that has suppliers and sub-factories in China. A lady from Shanghai was on a training week at the factory, without any symptoms, but showed them on the 23rd when she returned to Shanghai. The way she got the virus was from her parents, who are from Wuhan and visited her just before she left for Germany.
“What this shows is that there is most certainly direct human - human transmission during the incubation period, and also how the virus can be easily transmitted from Wuhan - Shanghai - Bavaria or anywhere else in the world. I have been to China and there is no way that the authorities would or could admit the size of the outbreak, especially not during the Lunar New Year, which assures that it will spread much more than during the rest of the year.”
I only skimmed the article. Not sure who issued the ban or why. It didnt look like DM said but maybe I missed it.
It seems like this virus is contagious and spread by people who are not showing any symptoms. That kind of virus seems very difficult to interrupt.
LOL...nope.
Sorry, Charlie, er, Ben.
GERMANY: The first human to human transmission of the Wuhan coronavirus in Europe has been reported in Germany, where a man was infected by a work colleague who had been in China, fuelling anxieties about the potential ease of international spread.
Experts said it was of particular concern that the Chinese woman who originally had the virus apparently had no symptoms when she transmitted it to her colleague. There have been warnings from inside China that people may be infectious before they start to feel ill.
So far there has been very limited spread from China. A handful of countries have reported cases including France, which has three, and the United States, which had five. This is the first reported European case of transmission from one person to another but it has also occurred in Japan, Vietnam and Taiwan.
....especially not during the Lunar New Year, which assures that it will spread much more than during the rest of the year....
Timing certainly is suspect, as well.
No telling how many infected arrived in the US, before any preventative (lol) measures were in place.
That’s what we expected. If this jumped from A to B to C then it definitely spread all the way through the alphabet. Once again, we, in the US, aren’t being told the truth even though we see China freaking out.
Last week, a spokesperson reporting on the Texas potential victims said the sick people shouldn’t spend too much time in crowds. WTH.
Most men would do the same.
Human - Human Transmission via asymptomatic carrier combined with a14 + day latency period before symptoms appear is very problematic and makes containment very difficult
Pseudo science takes a real toll. There are far fewer pharmaceutical companies working on vaccines thanks to the “anti vacciners”, the publicity they get in the media and harassing lawsuits.
We still don’t have any preventive measures in place to detect this thing. We’re operating on the epidemiology of the LAST virus pandemic.
You are 180 wrong on that one. Every pharma that works on vaccines has multiple vaccines in every stage of development.
There are no lawsuits against vaccine manufacturers. It’s illegal to do so and was outlawed in 1986. It’s a tort free area for pharma right now.
Agree.
That is a very superficial and incomplete account. If that German truly is infected with this specific coronavirus, then his activities and all contacts of any sort over the past 30 days would have to be tracked. Otherwise not much can be discerned from this single case. Single cases are always difficult to accurately discern.
“That is a very superficial and incomplete account.”
What do you expect in the opening days of a global pandemic? A Blue Ribbon Panel report?
And Germany has first-world testing. I’m thinking the same is happening in many countries unknown at this point.
To say the least.
Please watch this 10 minute video by the brilliant Felix Rex aka Black Pigeon Speaks.
“How a Pandemic could END CIVILIZATION”
(It’s not the disease that’ll kill you, it’s the collapse of the global economy leading to a collapse in food supply and energy infrastructure.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0cy_4FmvJY
That's why sane folks don't mess with bioweapons.
As for those coming back, they better be kept in isolation at least for the suspected quarantine period before being released to the general public.
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