AMEN to that! It's simply staggering that we limited people coming from China and later Iran, and left the door WIDE OPEN to people coming in from other infected hot spots like Italy and S. Korea.
Insisting that people are "screened" before they are let on a plane is insulting our intelligence. Everyone knows by know that this virus takes up to 28 days (average 5-6) to show symptoms, and that it can be spread by asymptomatic people. So why are we expected to believe that it can be stopped by "screening" when "screening" WON'T DETECT a large majority of infectious people?
Worse, it appears we are not screening people on arrival..
And don't even get me started on the complete mess that was made of our testing readiness, or the lack of stockpiled masks. Both of those are screw-ups of epic proportions given we've known of the virus for literally months now. I won't blame Trump directly as he can't be on top of everything, but the administration bungled this big-time.
[[the complete mess that was made of our testing readiness, or the lack of stockpiled masks.]]
absolutely- not just stockpiled masks, but all the things they ARE going to run out of quickly if they get overwhelmed- like Saline drip bags, needles, hospital quality disinfectant, etc etc etc- We KNOW that many flues and viruses ‘have a potential’ of becoming pandemic, and we’ve known this for centuries, but still we seem to always be ‘caught off guard’ and unprepared- It’s not like these things are sneaking up on us and taking us by surprise-
[[Insisting that people are “screened” before they are let on a plane is insulting our intelligence. ]]
Yup- Been making the argument from the start that there is no way we can contain this because of this very issue— there will be millions of people walking the streets- at work, at ball games who don’t show any signs or only mild symptoms- even many who were screened who later that week, after being screened getting off planes, that come down with this- and too many people can’t afford to stay home from work, so they go when they are not feeling well- and keep their mouths shut about being sick and try to hide it-
We can only hope to lessen the impact- until the threat burns itself out- like we have with other viruses