[karpov]

The NYT says now that when AIDS broke out in the U.S. that infected homosexuals should have been quarantined. What would it have said then if Reagan had done so?

[ncalburt]

Recall the TB camps and Hospitals last centuries .
My aunt and uncle were in TB camps !
Bring back TB camps.

[caver]

The Norks executed one of their guys that left the quarantine.

[Bruiser 10]

OTOH, we need to be realistic.

We live in a modern, enlightened age and must be appreciative and sensitive toward the concerns of all oppressed and downtrodden of our fellow citizens who primarily reside in urban concentrations.

Think of these cities as giant petri dishes. If there is a pandemic the deaths are likely to be concentrated there.

Think ‘silver-lining’.

[LukeL]

Okay, lets close all the tunnels and bridges going into NYC and ban flights from JFK and La Guardia.

[urbanpovertylawcenter]

Millions of lives could have been saved with HIV Quarantine.

[wastoute]

My God! The Rats want to close our borders now? These people have been bitching about the Orange Meanie for years and now a new cold arises in China and they want to slam the borders down? One thing you have to admire about Rats. They aren’t afflicted with principles.

[New Jersey Realist]

The President stands no chance here. The dems will try to nail him no matter what he does. If he HAD shut down schools or shut down airports they would have been critical of that. Since he is playing it with caution, they nail him on that. He just can’t win with them. We have had flu throughout all time and no president ever took the hit for it. WTF?

[Scram1]

Were there any related deaths from blood supply contaminations—a preventive shame?

[bert]

The best way to end the corona virus crisis would be to exterminate the presstitutes at the New York times

[sauropod]

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[HereInTheHeartland]

Cuba?
They wants us to act like Cuba?
Did Bernie write this article?
Oh wait a minute, is the NYT so yes they do.

[null and void]

the NYT has always wanted smelly WalMart people quarantined...

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

[KobraKai]

The siege of Athens.

[livius]

Actually, one of the things that set off the panic on this is seeing how the Chinese treated their own citizens - nailing or welding them into their apartment buildings, forcibly dragging them off to “hospitals” with people lying dead in the hallways, etc.

This is just a Dem cry for tyranny. Crisis is the cry of the tyrant.

Reasonable quarantine, yes; when I was growing up in NYC in the 50s, I still remember “quarantine” signs on people’s doors in their apartment building. Usually it was for some childhood disease, since this was before immunizations against things like whooping cough or scarlet fever. But they just stayed inside, got their food dropped off, were visited by the doctor regularly, and that was it.

But the hysteria of not letting people travel, forcibly removing them from their homes, etc. is just what the Dems have always wanted. It essentially shuts down the country and the activity of the citizens and makes them clients of the state, which of course is exactly what the Dems want.

Notice that the use Cuba as their shining example. For one thing, the Cuban government long had an anti-gay policy, so this was probably just the excuse they were waiting for; and another, of course, was that Cuba is a tiny island with very little travel on or off the island, except to certain limited tourist areas frequented by Europeans doing sex tourism (mostly looking for very young girls, because they were considered “clean”).

Bernie has sure revived Cuba nostalgia among the Dems. He’s brought out their inner totalitarian, which wasn’t very well hidden anyway.

If we want to do something truly positive, we could begin by improving public sanitation. Most of our cities have turned into cesspools (thanks to Dem policies) and there is certainly potential for all sorts of nasty diseases in them.

[Travis McGee]

This is what it's taking in China to bring it under control. Just imagine trying to enforce this in LA, Chicago, Baltimore, etc.

[9YearLurker]

Comparing NYC and Cuba really isn’t fair, as NYC is a magnet, like San Francisco, for gays to move to from across the country. Also, how much do we trust Cuba’s numbers? I doubt all AIDS-related US deaths were registered as such either.

Still, it makes sense that quarantines and moreso solitary confinement would limit transmission of social diseases.

[redgolum]

Team Blue liked AIDS, as it was a useful political tool. Just like it is fascinated with COVID, as they view it as a way to kill Team Red.

[Georgia Girl 2]

We are all going to die. Grab those go bags and bug out to your retreats people. Its TEOTWAWKI time. 60 yes count em 60 people in the US already infected.

[Flaming Conservative]

Don’t eat skunks, bats, dogs, cats, or other non-food items. People in Asia will eat ANYTHING. I watch “Cooking with Sro”, on YouTube; they’ll literally eat anything -— one episode, she cooked red ant eggs; another episode, she cooked silk worms. I understand poor folks throughout history eat anything and everything to keep from starving, steamed black flies, mice, etc., but, whoa!

[GOPJ]

The Castro regime’s response — roundly condemned by other countries — was to make H.I.V. tests mandatory, and to force everyone infected into quarantine camps. The camps were not hellholes: they had bungalows, gardens, theater troupes, medical care, more food than people outside often had, and less homophobia than gay men often faced in macho rural Cuba.

I think the New York Times has been hoodwinked once again. They fell for Potemkin villages, and probably believe Cuba has good 'healthcare'... too bad the Times is such a silly gullible 'news' source. This story is likely BS...fake news.

There something inbetween being a commie thug country and being so open minded that you're brains fall out... Yes, these people should be quarantined but that has many forms dependent on where they live, how willing they are to follow instructions etc.