Posted on 01/25/2020 5:35:00 AM PST by nuconvert
The United States is arranging a charter flight on Sunday to bring its citizens and diplomats back from the Chinese city of Wuhan, epicenter of the outbreak of a new coronavirus, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.
The plane, with around 230 people, will carry diplomats from the U.S. consulate as well as U.S. citizens and their families, the Journal reported, citing a person familiar with the operation.
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A spokesperson for the U.S. Embassy in Beijing said that on Thursday, the State Department had ordered the departure of family members and all U.S. government employees at its Wuhan consulate, but declined to comment on the report that other U.S. citizens would be evacuated from the city.
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I bloody well hope so!
A 10-year-old boy with "ground glass" appearance in lungs on X-ray (I Googled, it's a real term)...and *asymptomatic* including *no fever*.
(South China Morning Post...concerning a family from mid-January)
Can you imagine being a member of that flight crew?
You couldn't get me to take that assignment at gunpoint.
Yes, I saw that.
Taking peoples temperatures at the airport isn’t very reliable.
and shut down our facilities.
My company has already issued alerts on this scenario . trump
You can't blame people for being alarmed at the prospect of our inept government bringing these people into the country, given the horrifying reports we're seeing.
We might feel a little less uneasy about it, if details of how this will be done, were shared with the public.
It's not like we don't care about our fellow Americans. We just want to know that every possible precaution will be taken.
I do not trust this government to protect us. Yes, bring them back, but quarantine them all.
How many of these fine citizens are globalist who offshored their own citizens jobs to China and were proud of it?
I say let stay over there and die.
Mostly idiot Left-leaning American Teachers of English.
I didn’t think my opinion of the State Department could get any lower.
I was wrong.
What a GREAT idea to bring thousands of disease vectors back to the US to spread this. Even IF they’re ‘quarantined at home’, you KNOW that they will sneak out and violate this. Because they’re special people don’t you understand...Very special people. Educated and CONNECTED people. Germs wouldn’t DARE infect THEM kind of people.
“Why are any US citizens there? Selling out the US thats why.”
Yep ceo’s and such who offshored American jobs and working over there. Let em die over there.
I saw Daily Mail is saying 1,000.
I hope the government has plans for what to do with them.
As I said earlier, the CDC should really make a public announcement about this especially if it’s 1,000 people.
Let 'em.
They are going to be spread all over North America in major population and transportation hubs.
Tin foil on, there are a lot of green demons who want the population to be below a billion.
“London’s Imperial College team estimated that there were a total of 4,000 cases (with the possibility of up to 9,700 cases in the worst-case scenario) by January 18, when the official tally was still at 62 cases.
Using a different statistical method, scientists at Northeastern University in Boston reckon that 5,900 were infected by January 23.”
Compromise and say 4,500 people infected.
We still don’t know what the true mortality rate is, & how quickly people are recovering, especially if they get prompt medical attention.
Also, a great way to wreck the economy. Markets are already reacting.
“Where is your medical degree from?”
I don’t have a medical degree, do you?
I do however, design and manufacture medical electronics for a living.
Straight to quarantine, I hope.
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