Posted on 01/25/2020 11:16:01 PM PST by Zhang Fei
Hong Kong’s embattled leader adopted the advice of local medical experts as she on Saturday launched a new wave of measures to counter the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus – though divisions remained on whether the city should tighten or even close its border with mainland China. Some 48 hours after the city confirmed its first two cases – with a further three announced on Friday – Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor raised the government’s response against the new virus to the highest level of emergency after a public outcry.
Lam agreed to suggestions by microbiologist Professor Yuen Kwok-yung and Professor David Hui Shu-cheong, who both sit on an advisory panel reporting directly to her, to extend the Lunar New Year holiday for schools and to cancel the Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon.
Critics had argued that four infected mainlanders had come from Wuhan by high-speed rail, sparking a debate over whether the city should tighten up security for visitors, especially those coming from the Hubei city at the epicentre of the outbreak.
Lam ruled out the proposal, requested by a new labour union representing medical staff at public hospitals, saying it was “inappropriate and impractical”. She added that making it mandatory to fill in a health declaration at all the city’s borders and ports – another demand from the medical experts, initially shrugged off by the government – would suffice.
Professor Gabriel Leung, the dean of University of Hong Kong’s medical school, and Hui also poured cold water on the contentious proposal, saying the move was too extreme and not practical.
“For the past 20 years, whether it’s avian flu, Sars or swine flu, we … have never closed the border,” Leung said. Citing Keiji Fukuda, who once led the epidemiology section of United States Centres for Disease
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[“For the past 20 years, whether it’s avian flu, Sars or swine flu, we … have never closed the border,” Leung said. ]
Well any kind of skirmish involving half a dozen different countries, and of course all out war, would stop those shipments too.
Hell of a thing depending on a communist country for a Tremendous amount of goods sold in your country.
A person could read Edgar Allen Poe’s “Masque of the Red Death”. He may be right, it is probably already there. Ring Around The Posey comes to mind, if one is prone to panic.
This is why (among other reasons) Apple has been moving production to India and even back to the US.
Ah, we all bought into the “free trade” bull crap.
Many of us were naive enough to think that a billion person country would be opening its doors to American products.
Now we are conservatives that vote republican because the other option is too horrible to think of.
Chinese city tries to quarantine the rest of China. It presumably got slapped down by Beijing. The following story was broadcast by Reuters, then reversed. I’m surprised any local Chinese government official had the guts to issue this kind of pronouncement. This modern day plague is making the natives restless:
[This is why (among other reasons) Apple has been moving production to India]
They are doing India for diversifying supply and due to their “build here” laws, to try to further break into their market.
Apple already produces in Brazil as well as considering Indonesia, Vietnam, Mexico and a couple others I can’t recall for future production.
[They are doing India for diversifying supply and due to their “build here” laws, to try to further break into their market.]
That’s why they now have a “What to do when your Apple product comes with the Corona virus installed” pamphlet.
[That’s why they now have a “What to do when your Apple product comes with the Corona virus installed” pamphlet.]
Originally,America would have been just fine ISOLATIONIST. Now we are go go global.
You can’t isolate with porous borders and soldiers world wide and not inoculated. Which a vaccine isn’t here yet. And people flying all over not screened. You either beat it or it beats you.
The Hong Kong government has refused to close down the border, but decided to convert an unoccupied public estate into temporary flats for quarantine in Fanling.
https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/202001/26/P2020012600087.htm
People in the neighborhood are protesting outside the estate right now.
... when 'drawing a line' means 'not drawing a line' ...
Hard to say if China is exerting extra pressure or if they know the scare stories are spreading faster than the virus - which so far, has the same contagion type factors as the Flu.
[Hard to say if China is exerting extra pressure or if they know the scare stories are spreading faster than the virus - which so far, has the same contagion type factors as the Flu.]
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3811029/posts
Time will tell - the extreme measures may also be part of a cover up attempt...let’s see what the word is a week from now before going all overboard...
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