Alaska Ping.
Kalitta Air K4 371 Wuhan to Anchorage Kalitta Air K4 371 ARRIVED 3:00 am 9:21 pm Updated 1h 45m ago WUH ANC Wuhan · Wed, January 29 Anchorage · Tue, January 28 Departed Terminal Gate Arrived Terminal Gate 3:02 am - - 9:33 pm - - Scheduled departure 3:00 am Scheduled arrival 9:21 pm
Good place to leave them until the virus runs its course.
More contradictions between what US officials and what has been published about the ability of the disease to survive on surfaces (fomites).
We have been hearing that the virus can remain active for 5 days on surfaces.
The official in this article says the timeframe is 2 hours.
We re being subjected to an active disinformation campaign. I would like to know why.
Has anyone heard if they will be quarantined for a period of time after arriving at the March base in California?
Next stop March Air Reserve Base.
Flight tracking: https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/k4371/#23ae6d56
Sat. map of March ARB: https://goo.gl/maps/jhj4zFTC4kMLjupc9
March Website: https://www.march.afrc.af.mil
That Kalitta Air 747 normally hauls cattle . I see it all the time. Mooooo
The state dept. Wuhan Coronavirus flight is airborne (pun intended)...now headed for SoCal.
https://fr24.com/CKS371/23afe247
These are diplomats and their families. Average Americans are apparently stranded in Wuhan.
Kalitta Air departed Anchorage 35 minutes ago due to arrive at Riverside, CA 7:45 AM west coast time.
Now quarantine them. They do it to astronauts returning from space, even though no instance of space-bourne disease has have occurred. So do it to returnees from a known outbreak.
Alaska Ping.
This particular flight is getting a lot of attention, but remember dozens of flights a day are arriving from China to the US. As I post this here is one to Dallas from Shanghai:
https://www.flightradar24.com/AAL128/23afd95c
And DFW has just now started screening:
https://www.fox4news.com/news/dfw-airport-to-begin-screening-international-travelers-for-coronavirus
Related: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3811816/posts
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Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.
I have not heard anything about the tourists in China. Are they all gone?
Found this in some research.
“...What of Today?
Our current concerns about possible terrorist-induced epidemic, or another SARS-like outbreak, throw the experience of Mare Island Navy Yard and Vallejo into high relief. A very contagious, virulent virus could produce so large a volume of illness so quickly as to overwhelm local medical capabilities.
In California there is “no specific authority” for public health officials to “deputize” or otherwise organize local medical personnel to respond to an emergency. While quarantine can be ordered with judicial approval, medical response to a public health emergency is [still] based on a “gentleperson’s agreement” among the various parties.20 Country health officials and local hospitals work together developing action plans to be instituted in the event of a large public contagion.
Clearly, there could be a large role for military medicine in some future contagion. This would call for civilian-military contingency planning for such an eventuality. Strategies for a public health response and for the management of large numbers of very sick people must be put in place now.”
“The Great Flu Crisis at Mare Island Navy Yard, and Vallejo, California”