Posted on 02/12/2020 5:26:17 AM PST by Kaslin
Chinese government officials and the World Health Organization are bad-mouthing the Trump administration for trying to stop the coronavirus from invading the United States. The Trump administration is barring foreigners who have been in China recently from entering the U.S. Americans returning from China are quarantined for 14 days. China accuses Trump of arousing fear. WHO claims the president's policies "unnecessarily interfere with travel and trade." Don't fall for this bombast.
You can't fight an epidemic with political correctness. Trump's travel restrictions are saving lives here and sparing U.S. hospitals, which are already overwhelmed by flu season, from being thrown into crisis.
Instead of bashing the U.S., WHO officials should be criticizing China's abusive methods of disease containment. Chinese officials are offering cash or free masks to anyone who squeals on sick neighbors. Suspected virus carriers are dragged from their homes and trucked to quarantine warehouses, where medical care is lacking but contracting the virus is almost guaranteed. People daring to report the dire conditions on social media are silenced. In China, the public is under control, not the disease. The daily death count is steadily rising.
Meanwhile, in the U.S., the risk of anyone contracting coronavirus is "low," according to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar. The Trump administration's travel restrictions are intended to keep it that way.
On Jan. 31, U.S. health officials seized a tiny window of time to close off travel before the coronavirus could spread inside the U.S. So far, there are only 13 cases here, including 11 recent travelers and two spouses later infected in the United States.
Before shutting down travel, the U.S. relied on temperature screening at airports to identify infected travelers. That's a waste. New research released Friday in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows infected people can spread coronavirus even if they haven't developed fever or other symptoms yet.
The incubation period -- the time with the infection before symptoms -- can last 14 days, making the virus hard to contain.
How deadly is coronavirus? Current guesstimates are that 2% of victims die. That's about 40 times as deadly as this year's flu.
Coronavirus is spreading fast inside Chinese hospitals, infecting health care workers and patients who went in with other maladies. Forty-one percent of coronavirus patients in the Wuhan hospital portrayed by JAMA caught the virus in the hospital. A hospital is one of the most dangerous places to be.
That's no surprise. In 2003, when SARS -- another Chinese coronavirus -- struck Ontario, a staggering 77% of people infected with SARS there got it in the hospital.
It started when a Toronto man, whose mother had been to China two weeks earlier, went to the hospital feeling ill. For 16 hours, he was kept in a packed emergency room, where his virus infected the man just beyond the curtain in an adjacent bed and another man three beds away. They spread it to doctors and nurses, hospital housekeepers and other patients.
Ontario's government concluded that SARS spread because "infection control was not a priority" in the hospitals. Patients were not isolated quickly, and caregivers failed to wear masks to protect themselves and frequently treated sick patients without first donning disposable gowns and gloves to prevent the virus from spreading.
These same problems are typical in U.S. hospitals. A recent drill conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that hospitals in New York City have "suboptimal adherence to key infection control practices."
That means they are unready for coronavirus. Without the Trump administration travel restrictions, travelers unaware that they have the virus would be pouring into the U.S. and then going to an ER when symptoms appear. That would be a disaster for hospitals and patients.
The Trump administration has sent 18 tons of medical equipment to China and is pledging $100 million to fight the epidemic. America is being generous. But fighting it over there, not here, is the right idea.
I 100% agree.
Oh common. Don’t tell me there is even a peep of a counter-argument. Any prominent official who wants to break quarantine - just put him on CNN = free a let the world see the face of an idiot globalist socialist traitor.
Common sense....
Thank you, President Trump, for doing what had to be done re: restricting travel to and from China.
There is a lot to criticize China for, but whatever it takes to get this surrounded, cut off, under control, contained and eliminated is for the good of humanity everywhere else.
Freedom from medically necessary quarantine is not a basic human right.
The War Room guys (Steve Bannon, Raheem Kassam & Jason Miller) have a War Room: Pandemic site & are doing interviews on the subject. They had experts (doctors Bradley Thayer and Steven Hatfill) on last night & some of the virus details are fascinating & deadly.
Episode:
https://pandemic.warroom.org/special-ep-14-war-room-pandemic-tear-down-this-firewall/
Pandemic overall page:
https://pandemic.warroom.org/
Per the interview I heard last night: It starts out like a cold, sore throat maybe, etc. For about a week, chest x-rays look normal, then “opacities” start to appear. There is a protein deep in the lungs that the virus binds to ... since it is deep in the lungs, it is dangerous. Some people develop Acute/Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome - plasma leaks into the lung’s air sacks, Because of this, the blood can’t pick up the oxygen it needs to carry to the rest of the body. Organs such as kidneys or brain might not work the way they should or might shut down. This can occur/get worse quickly - not a ‘good way to die’ per doc.
Critical to stop the spread (Trump doing the right thing). As more cases get outside of China, how the virus works can be studied - China lies about what is really gone on in their country, not letting in help, etc.
Once again, President Trump is protecting the American people... Thank you President Trump.
Soooo... let’s see if I got this straight....
The ChiComs invent yet ANOTHER man-made coronavirus bioweapon (like SARS), which ALSO “just happens” to escape from THEIR bioweapon labs (like SARS), they’re mad about the fact that we’re not letting them export their “mistake” to our shores to kill OUR people, and WE’RE the bad guys...???
That about right??
Ok... I got it now...
I suggest you don’t don’t go to China and you stay away from people, than you don’t have to worry getting infected. Also wash your hands
Working on it :^)
And thank you, Kas!!!!
Absolutely. International jet travel is what spreads diseases. That’s what’s responsible for bringing AIDS here from Africa.
hope this doesn't mean trump is sending them a blank check for $100 million...
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