[bobk333]

There is no clear guidance on what to do if you start to get symptoms.

Simple advice from the authorities can significantly limit the spread of the virus in the United States:

How severe should the flu or cold symptoms be before we go in to get checked?

How helpful are masks and safety glasses when interacting with someone with minimal symptoms?

They could limit the spread of a virus that could *potentially* kill tens of millions of people in this country by giving out simple, straightforward advice but they aren’t doing it.

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[grey_whiskers]

Well, DHS announced today -- as proclaimed on CNBC -- that they reserve the right to turn flights around in mid-air if they find out any of the passengers has been in China (not just Wuhan) in the past 14 days.

What's *that* tell you?

[grey_whiskers]

My take is that it is a mix of intellectual pride ("I went to Harvard/Yale/Penn so I *know* better") and normalcy bias "that doesn't happen anymore because *current year*" and some folks hoping to screw it up enough to get Trump to take the fall for it.

That, and maybe a bit of Chicom money/pressure (remember when the head of Chemistry at HARVARD was arrested for taking $50,000/month under the table from China, and working with someone who was really a Chinese Red Army Official incognito).

And $50,000 / month? That's almost Hunter Biden territory!

We should have forbidden entry to anyone who had EVER been in China, two weeks ago.

Based simply on (I presume our spy agencies have a few honest people who aren't overtly treasonous, or 0moeba admin holdovers) what China was doing on the ground to its own citizens, even a week or two ago, when the death and infection numbers were truly miniscule.