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Coronavirus-infected Americans flown back to US on plane full of healthy people
nypost.com ^ | February 20, 2020 | Tamar Lapin

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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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To: winoneforthegipper
...The CDC is full of Trump haters..

So is Foggy Bottom.

61 posted on 02/21/2020 3:00:08 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: PA Engineer

If that’s the back of the plane why are the seats facing the box?


62 posted on 02/21/2020 3:02:25 AM PST by null and void (By the pricking of my lungs, Something wicked this way comes ...)
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To: winoneforthegipper
The CDC is full of Trump haters don't give them ammo.

And the State Department supports Trump 100%, right?

63 posted on 02/21/2020 3:04:17 AM PST by null and void (By the pricking of my lungs, Something wicked this way comes ...)
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To: null and void

Foggy Bottom is the heart of the Deep State Swamp™. The heart of darkness.


64 posted on 02/21/2020 3:04:36 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: PA Engineer
Great videos. Funny. We have to rely on the Russians for news.

When I was a kid the Russians had to rely on us for news. *sigh*

65 posted on 02/21/2020 3:10:15 AM PST by null and void (By the pricking of my lungs, Something wicked this way comes ...)
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To: null and void
That's the first class box for the elite corona virus people. The rest are in the back of economy behind a plastic tarp.

Actually I have no idea.

66 posted on 02/21/2020 4:07:28 AM PST by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways to Sunday)
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To: Ann Archy

They had all spent almost 2 months together on that ship and rode on the same busses to the airport. It was an onscene call to leave those 14 on the death ship in Japan or suit them up, mask them, and put them on the plane behind plastic and get them home.

You and I would have made different decisions.

All pax were masked on the return. No one really knows yet how many of the “ healthy” will yet test positive


67 posted on 02/21/2020 4:28:26 AM PST by silverleaf (Remember kids: You can vote your way into communism, but you have to shoot your way out!)
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To: BradyLS

The only good that could come of this would be if it would finally get Trump to boot Pompeo.


68 posted on 02/21/2020 4:42:08 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: UnwashedPeasant

Trying to cause trouble for Trump is something they are always trying...


69 posted on 02/21/2020 4:43:49 AM PST by redinIllinois (Pro-life, accountant, gun-totin' Grandma - mui issue voter)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Did State do this to intentionally bring 300 carriers here with the INTENTION of introducing it to the US, to bring down Trump in November?

Why the hell didn’t CDC have the final sign-off?

This is going to be bad for Trump.


70 posted on 02/21/2020 4:45:52 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Spktyr

Couldn’t the CDC have forbade that aircraft from landing in the US?


71 posted on 02/21/2020 4:47:33 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: BradyLS

“Why was it a State Department chartered flight and not one chartered and operated by the CDC?”

I am going to guess jurisdiction and budget.


72 posted on 02/21/2020 4:50:51 AM PST by Gen.Blather
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Unfortunately, a lot of US quarantine laws were misused by idiots (”We’re going to quarantine you uppity n*****s so your disease of wanting equal rights don’t spread” - among other misuses) and were weakened or struck down by the courts as a result. Those that remain are mostly weak and at the state level.

The President *can* close the borders, but as we saw in the last two years the courts will forcibly reopen them. And he can’t do it ‘tactically’, i.e., just a particular person or flight.

Unfortunately, what happened here is what happened to a lot of our laws in the 60s and 70s - a bunch of Pollyanna idiots got ahold of it and decided that certain laws were outdated, or the situations they were designed for would never happen again. (Obama - “We will never need tanks to fight tanks ever again” - that level of stupidity.) And therefore they gutted or removed the laws.


73 posted on 02/21/2020 4:58:37 AM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Norseman

current death rate is 2.3%, multiplied times all 1.45 billion chinese and you are correct millions will die

if they are wrong and china’s real rate is far higher - why do they need 49 crematoriums doing about 250 bodies each daily plus 40 more industrial furnaces - the real number may be a double digit percentage

china has to send people back yo work or let the rest of their economy collapse - if more die of no consequence just more burning more replacements

yes always a good idea to let a bioweapon, that looks like the common flu, escape into the rest of the world - what could go wrong?


74 posted on 02/21/2020 5:18:46 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: nuconvert

oh that sounds effective!


75 posted on 02/21/2020 5:19:27 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: PA Engineer

Now if they could just teach some of the other Americans to wear a mask properly?


after they find a large supply of n95s and receive a custom fitting but they will have to wait until there are n95s to buy


76 posted on 02/21/2020 5:22:17 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

They were in a self contained unit within the aircraft.


77 posted on 02/21/2020 5:25:42 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: PIF

But the government has a million masks. At least that is what I read the other day. Lol.


78 posted on 02/21/2020 5:27:14 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Are not those in bio-pods? Were the pods with the patients within taken off in US as one unit? If contained (can’t see the top), not much different than being in the ship, no? Back to family.


79 posted on 02/21/2020 5:27:32 AM PST by Varsity Flight (Mr. President, We the People, have your back. I)
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To: Paul R.

Plus we’ll have no vaccine for COVID-19 for at least several months.


some trials set for some time this year, first vaccine 1-1.5 years out or more ...


80 posted on 02/21/2020 5:28:58 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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