Now if they could just teach some of the other Americans to wear a mask properly?
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.
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.
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.
Not satisfied with “State Department”. We need the name of the blithering idiot at the State Department who made this decision.
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.
There are some suspect sources for this article such as Anonymous and Washington Post.
The fact is these Americans were handled correctly. Brought home to better care and a chance of staying alive.
The State Dept was correct. The CDC is full of Trump haters don't give them ammo.
The State Department - just who I want to decide infectious disease protocols for transporting people potentially infected with an extremely virulent virus.
Pompeo should have been forced to fly on this plane.
If passengers on this jet become infected, who here thinks that the State Dept will be held accountable? .fedgov types are excel at avoiding accountability.
China destroys its people in retaliation to Wall St.
Now the plane is infected too.
Maybe the Deep State is trying to generate “Trump’s Katrina.”
It is hard to find a time when the State Department is not the enemy of the American people.