Posted on 03/11/2020 6:12:58 AM PDT by C19fan
Three employees with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in California tested positive for the coronavirus, the agency confirmed Tuesday.
The employees, who work at Mineta San Jose International Airport in Santa Clara County, and all other workers they came in contact with over the past two weeks are quarantined at home.
“Screening checkpoints remain open and the agency is working with the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention], as well as the California Department of Public Health and the Santa Clara County Public Health Department to monitor the situation as well as the health and safety of our employees and the traveling public. We will update as more information becomes available,” TSA said in a statement.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
I heard they got it from the Televisions at the Airport that had CNN on??
Real facts for those interested in Science and data not politically motivated panic mongering and lying.
121,340 total cased WORLD WIDE. 50,00 active cases 70,000 resolved case
4380 deaths. Average age of death: 80 years old
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Hmmm - I just bought airline tickets, Baltimore to LAX, $62 one way. No wonder ...
Apparently full time groping isn’t safe anymore.
That will certainly make people feel more confident about the safety of their spring break vacation plans.
Are they showing symptoms? If not, why are they bothering testing them? The problem is that test kits are not like raindrops. They don’t just rain down from heaven. There are only so many around, and they are only so reliable.
Frankly, even at 66, if I got something that I thought was the chinavirus, I’d stay home and try to get better through rest and plenty of water. If I got so bad that it was unbearable I’d go to the hospital.
It’s that simple.
And yes, I might die. I might also have to pay taxes. So? Both are inevitable.
So your theory is that they just chose these three people at random? I think that is unlikely.
I think they were probably exposed to the virus in their job by a passenger known to have the virus, and then were tested and found also to have the virus.
How many people in the meantime have they exposed to it, in their highly interactive job?
Not only do you get free groping from TSA, now you get a case of Wuhan virus for FREE!!!
Virus in shoe tray. Agent touches shoe tray. Agent picks nose.
How do the COVID-19 symptoms differ from the normal winter stuff. Since Thanksgiving I’ve had shingles, influenza-B, influenza-A, and shingles a second time.
I’m sure those perverts test positive for all kinds of things.
Unexpected.
In other news, I accidentally stepped in a fire ant nest yesterday and sustained 3 bites to the left ankle before hosing the rest of the feared ants off. No emergency crews were required and medical advisors report that the patient has self-quarantined from the nest and is recovering with cortisone cream treatment. /s
The people who feel up other people for a living. Great.
Infected people identified, action taken, infected and immediate direct contacts quarantined - all good.
They could additionally work with the airlines (and TSA’s own data from the Id’s and boarding passes they scanned at the stations the infected worked at on the recent days they worked), and see about getting out notices to passengers who passed through the particular TSA stations when the infected worked there. The notice need only be one suggesting the travelers watch carefully their health status and if symptoms develop get a public health test for the virus.
Open Letter to the world from an infectious disease specialist about Covid-19
https://www.facebook.com/abdu.sharkawy?__tn__=%2CdCH-R-R&eid=ARDIStwGP8KCBe-SzZ8wj1mdvQ2JWwKV6WYIJ3Z | 03-05 | Abdu Sharkawy
Posted on 3/10/2020, 6:01:51 PM by MNJohnnie
I’m a doctor and an Infectious Diseases Specialist. I’ve been at this for more than 20 years seeing sick patients on a daily basis. I have worked in inner city hospitals and in the poorest slums of Africa. HIV-AIDS, Hepatitis,TB, SARS, Measles, Shingles, Whooping cough, Diphtheria...there is little I haven’t been exposed to in my profession. And with notable exception of SARS, very little has left me feeling vulnerable, overwhelmed or downright scared.
I am not scared of Covid-19. I am concerned about the implications of a novel infectious agent that has spread the world over and continues to find new footholds in different soil. I am rightly concerned for the welfare of those who are elderly, in frail health or disenfranchised who stand to suffer mostly, and disproportionately, at the hands of this new scourge. But I am not scared of Covid-19.
What I am scared about is the loss of reason and wave of fear that has induced the masses of society into a spellbinding spiral of panic, stockpiling obscene quantities of anything that could fill a bomb shelter adequately in a post-apocalyptic world. I am scared of the N95 masks that are stolen from hospitals and urgent care clinics where they are actually needed for front line healthcare providers and instead are being donned in airports, malls, and coffee lounges, perpetuating even more fear and suspicion of others.
I am scared that our hospitals will be overwhelmed with anyone who thinks they “ probably don’t have it but may as well get checked out no matter what because you just never know...” and those with heart failure, emphysema, pneumonia and strokes will pay the price for overfilled ER waiting rooms with only so many doctors and nurses to assess.
I am scared that travel restrictions will become so far reaching that weddings will be canceled, graduations missed and family reunions will not materialize. And well, even that big party called the Olympic Games...that could be kyboshed too. Can you even imagine?
I’m scared those same epidemic fears will limit trade, harm partnerships in multiple sectors, business and otherwise and ultimately culminate in a global recession.
But mostly, I’m scared about what message we are telling our kids when faced with a threat. Instead of reason, rationality, openmindedness and altruism, we are telling them to panic, be fearful, suspicious, reactionary and self-interested.
Covid-19 is nowhere near over. It will be coming to a city, a hospital, a friend, even a family member near you at some point. Expect it. Stop waiting to be surprised further. The fact is the virus itself will not likely do much harm when it arrives. But our own behaviors and “fight for yourself above all else” attitude could prove disastrous.
I implore you all. Temper fear with reason, panic with patience and uncertainty with education. We have an opportunity to learn a great deal about health hygiene and limiting the spread of innumerable transmissible diseases in our society. Let’s meet this challenge together in the best spirit of compassion for others, patience, and above all, an unfailing effort to seek truth, facts and knowledge as opposed to conjecture, speculation and catastrophizing.
Facts not fear. Clean hands. Open hearts. Our children will thank us for it.
#washurhands #geturflushot #respect #patiencenotpanic
Oh noze! 3 more cases.....still about 1,000 times more likely to get the Flu before the season ends...
Not to speculate if this might become more common, but a 2 week paid leave, with no penalty against accumulated vacation time or sick leave time might be appealing to some people. I'm sure I have enough uncompleted projects around to last me for 2 years, never mind 2 weeks.
Great. I landed at SJC a week ago Monday on my way home.
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