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U.S. to evacuate its citizens from Wuhan, China
Reuters ^ | Jan. 25, 2020

Posted on 01/25/2020 5:35:00 AM PST by nuconvert

The United States is arranging a charter flight on Sunday to bring its citizens and diplomats back from the Chinese city of Wuhan, epicenter of the outbreak of a new coronavirus, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.

The plane, with around 230 people, will carry diplomats from the U.S. consulate as well as U.S. citizens and their families, the Journal reported, citing a person familiar with the operation.

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A spokesperson for the U.S. Embassy in Beijing said that on Thursday, the State Department had ordered the departure of family members and all U.S. government employees at its Wuhan consulate, but declined to comment on the report that other U.S. citizens would be evacuated from the city.

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(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2019ncov; china; coronavirus; disease; dothewuhandance; statedept; wuhan
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To: yldstrk

Well, the WuFlu will be the flavor of the week to distract from the Donkey Diarrhea spread by Schiff & Company.

Quarantine and observe.


61 posted on 01/25/2020 6:43:36 AM PST by ptsal
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To: nuconvert

Wu Han was the birthplace of a famous American, Jayne Meadows.


62 posted on 01/25/2020 6:47:15 AM PST by Clemenza
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To: yldstrk

That’s for a general population.
This is a captive audience, so to speak, of 230 people. You already have them, so there isn’t a problem of them going underground and hiding.


63 posted on 01/25/2020 6:47:53 AM PST by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: yldstrk

Why would you want to bring people who don’t have the disease into those who do? The point of a quarantine is to contain the disease so that it doesn’t spread to the uninfected/untreated. Flying people out risks exposure to those outside of it.

IMO: Send citizens in quarantined cities to their embassies or consulates within their quarantined city and _fly in_ medical specialists and scientists, equipment, and drugs for governments that want give their citizens the best care they can and study the disease there.


64 posted on 01/25/2020 6:50:09 AM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Clemenza

Interesting. Now that you mention it, I do recall that she was born in China. I think her parents were missionaries.


65 posted on 01/25/2020 6:50:35 AM PST by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: Jane Long
Military base where they can houses and isolated.
66 posted on 01/25/2020 6:50:54 AM PST by ncalburt (Gop DC Globalists)
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To: VTenigma

A ship would be better. Wasn’t there a movie once about this sort of situstion?


67 posted on 01/25/2020 6:51:01 AM PST by madison10
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To: BradyLS

...into ‘contact’ with...


68 posted on 01/25/2020 6:51:07 AM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: BradyLS

Chinese government blocking exit roads with earth moving equipment piling dirt on top of cars blocking the road.


69 posted on 01/25/2020 6:51:23 AM PST by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: ptsal

Cinemas shut in Shanghai


70 posted on 01/25/2020 6:52:51 AM PST by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: yldstrk

There is a two week incubation period .
All need to be quarantined for that period on a military base and none of this house quarantine nonsense .


71 posted on 01/25/2020 6:53:35 AM PST by ncalburt (Gop DC Globalists)
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To: cornfedcowboy

Of course! They aren’t just being booked on any old plane heading out with a whole bunch of other unsuspecting passengers. Their lives are at stake.


72 posted on 01/25/2020 6:54:01 AM PST by gloryblaze
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To: ncalburt

I have moved on from this old fashioned and ineffective idea and so should you.


73 posted on 01/25/2020 6:54:49 AM PST by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: nuconvert

I’m ashamed to admit that I’ve gotten so disgusted with US “diplomats” over this Trump impeachment effort that my first thought was leave them there.

It appears the majority of Americans actually were left there, though. What was so special about the 200-plus that were airlifted out, versus the over 700 left behind? Diplomats über alles I suspect.

And, are they going to be literally quarantined so as to not spread the contagion?


74 posted on 01/25/2020 6:57:55 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: yldstrk
On the flip side, where would you want a epidemic to occur? A free western country, or a communist controlled state? I bet china doesn't have a ‘aclu’ version out there fighting quarantines and movement restrictions.
75 posted on 01/25/2020 6:59:10 AM PST by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: ptsal; yldstrk

I agree with ptsal.

Quarantine!!!!!


76 posted on 01/25/2020 6:59:46 AM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57 returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: WildHighlander57

It’s too late for that, the horse has left the barn


77 posted on 01/25/2020 7:02:01 AM PST by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: ryderann

When I was in the Army, I caught the chicken pox from my roommate and both of us ended up in quarantine at the base hospital for about 10 or 14 days.........Weird thing tho, the skin on the bottom of my hands peeled off.


78 posted on 01/25/2020 7:07:12 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (I want an impeachment pen)
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To: nuconvert

You have to ask yourself just how many American citizens are there in China?

I wonder how many of them are poor little American factory born?


79 posted on 01/25/2020 7:07:21 AM PST by heshtesh
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To: nuconvert

80 posted on 01/25/2020 7:14:34 AM PST by Karl Spooner
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