Posted on 02/20/2020 8:54:42 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
The 14 coronavirus-stricken Americans evacuated from a cruise ship in Japan were flown back to the US on a plane full of healthy people against advice from the CDC, a report said Thursday.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials argued the 14 infected Diamond Princess passengers shouldn’t be flown back with the about 300 virus-free people — but ultimately lost the battle to the US State Department, according to The Washington Post.
“It was like the worst nightmare,” an anonymous senior U.S. official involved in the decision told the paper.
“Quite frankly, the alternative could have been pulling grandma out in the pouring rain, and that would have been bad, too.”
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So our government lied to us... again. The State Department was supposedly sending this chartered plain with personnel only - and the plane itself was supposed to be treated as a quarantine zone as well.
Trump shoulda sent Pelosi’s plane.
Its time for me to stop accusing China of incompetence in handling this disease.
Any family members die, and I sanction blood retribution...
The State Duh-partment?
Figgers.
Why was it a State Department chartered flight and not one chartered and operated by the CDC?
Meanwhile most Democrats say the government should be given responsibility for the nation’s entire healthcare system.
The CDC has no jurisdiction outside the US.
Yeah, so far that’s not going so well in China either.
I don’t suppose the 300 virus-free people were given any notice and thus a choice about it.
Having been cooped up in a plane for half a day with those sick passengers, everyone on that plane most likely has been given the Wuhan flu virus.
state is a full nest of socialists.
Not satisfied with “State Department”. We need the name of the blithering idiot at the State Department who made this decision.
This was not some silly oversight. These people want to destroy this country as we know it. The only irony is that they want all the damage outside their beltway comfort zone.
Cloward - Liven our systems of commerce, welfare, education, retirement, and in this case....health-care. Overload it to destroy it. Then transform it's replacement hosting their sets of rules.
this is not quite as bad as i though. It sounds from later lines in the story like this was a quarantined flight full of exposed people off the cruise ship, not a bunch of random people who had not been exposed.
We’re going to get a good read on the fatality rate of the virus from the 600+ people infected on the Princess. All of them will be observed and we’ll know within a month how many of them got seriously ill, and how many died. Plus, we’ll get an idea as to the mortality rate for different ages and conditioning.
Assuming those numbers are flu-like, and not MERS-like, or worse, ebola-like, then it might make sense to just let it escape into the general population throughout the world, especially since that looks likely to happen anyway. Hundreds of thousands of people die each winter of the flu complications and we get by without shutting down world commerce. That might be the best way to go with this coronavirus too, and we should soon have answers from the Princess situation.
In fact, that looks to me like exactly what China is doing right now, i.e., just sending people back to work, because there’s no way they’ve contained it to the extent they’re currently reporting. They’re just making up the numbers and getting their economy going again. Ironically, that might turn out to be a rational decision. Or, if they’re wrong, millions might die.
Incidentally, it’s looking like the Trump administration made a good call stopping all flights from China early in the process. If we have to contain it here, we at least now have a chance of succeeding. But if it runs rampant in most other countries, well, you probably can’t cut us off from the entire world.
I think this the plane where they taped up a piece of plastic separating the infected from the not.
>>”...It sounds from later lines in the story like this was a quarantined flight full of exposed people off the cruise ship...”<<
That’s what it was. They were flying Americans on the Princess back home, but 14 tested positive when they tested them after leaving the ship. Given the size of that number, it’s quite likely that several others sitting in the unprotected area of the plane were also infected, but were still testing negative because it seems people who have been infected take a while to have it show up on the test.
Also, I thought there were two planeloads involved, but I could be wrong about that.
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