Posted on 02/28/2020 9:00:13 AM PST by Red Badger
They fly back and forth for 8 days straight before getting so much as a mechanical check ( unless, of course, the pilots report a problem). The flight attendants pick up the garbage and clean up messes that happen in flight .
the passengers are screened prior to boarding. During flight FAA regs require stews to report any passenger displaying illness. So it seems like the US is relying on point of origin screening re: US Citizens?
Perhaps CBS could do the screenings
It's a really good thing we have an adult in the White House.
It’s impossible to contain it without totally shutting the borders. And even then it’s too late for that.
Yah it's a given that it's here. I suspect now that the administration has set up a front that they'll allow new cases to leak out now.
There is no way to fully control a virus from spreading. We cannot hermetically seal ourselves off. We can mitigate but we cannot fully insulate. Many carriers are asymptomatic while they shed the virus. How do you fight that? For this reason, I’m sure it’s here in greater numbers than are being reported, as it is an issue with accurate testing/monitoring, and asymptomatic carriers have no reason to be tested and quarantined. Fact is, flu is far deadlier, and we have an (often ineffective) vaccine for the flu given every year to those who are willing to receive it. But people will freak out about coronavirus and the panic will hurt the economy in the short term. Eventually, coronavirus will be a regular seasonal issue, which we will be vaccinated against. Maybe next year at the earliest. We will learn to accept it and live with it — the economy will revert to its fundamentals.
Lets close the borders and make the libs happy.
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It appears the flu is “far deadlier” only insofar as it has had a chance to infect and kill more so far.
COVID-19 at least now looks like it will end up with far more infections and deaths. Of course, let’s hope that is incorrect.
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What concerns me is it seems the damn thing can reoccur. That may indicate there is no immunization against it. I read here the disease seems to have an HIV strain spliced in. Whether that was natural or by design will determine whether it was an accident or design in some commie lab. Either way, if reoccurance is corrent, how does one immunize against that with the implication it may not be stopped proactively. Perhaps with the advent of summer we will get a respite and some time to continue to evaluate it further. If heat and sunlight are the only cures, I am buying shares in a nudist camp!
Ha ha. I woukdn’t want to go sitting on any furniture at such a camp!
The early experience in Singapore suggest heat might not stop it.
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