Posted on 03/20/2020 12:46:29 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
An active-duty airman and an Air Force contractor who both visited the Pentagon in recent weeks have tested positive for the coronavirus, the Air Force said Friday, in the first confirmed cases of the virus inside the world’s biggest office building.
The active-duty member works for the Defense Health Agency in Falls Church, Va., and was in the Pentagon “for less than an hour” on Monday, the Air Force said in a news release.
The airman “has since received medical treatment and self-quarantined at home,” it said.
Military health and local civilian officials have notified individuals who came into contact with the airman, the release added.
The contractor was last in the Pentagon on March 2, according to the Air Force. The person has been self-quarantining and receiving medical treatment since March 7.
The contractor also attended a symposium at Joint Base Andrews, Md., from March 3 to 6. The person did not have symptoms at the event, but the Air Force said it has notified all attendees of the positive coronavirus test.
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Gentlemen, this is the war room. You can’t be sick in here.
Looks like I picked the wrong time to stop popping percs
That - case identified, case quarantined, case researched for all recent close contacts, those contacts tested, among those contacts those who test positive self-quarantine for 14 days; then also isolate the system compromised and the elderly. THAT is how, not quarantining the whole population, is how you deal with an epidemic.
Why are we NOT doing that? We screwed the pooch on getting a jump start on Cov-19 test kits as well as not organizing public health, police and military for the grunt work of tracking those who had close contact with a Cov-19 person and testing those contacts. That would be doing it right.
That’s it... send the military home.
Oh — they got their delivery and this is their first two test kits. Finally.
Congratulations on beating your habit. I can suggest a PO box to send your leftovers to.
“Why are we NOT doing that? We screwed the pooch on getting a jump start on Cov-19 test kits as well as not organizing public health, police and military.”
It’s amazing to see the incompetence. Isn’t the CDC one of the bureaucracies that is supposed to just do its job, no matter who is president? Aren’t they supposed to just jump into action for situations like these? It’s becoming quite clear that the U.S. does not have the best health care or health care system in the world. We are only comparing ourselves to other countries’ state-run systems. It’s totally the fault of the CDC- they are the supposed experts to handle the crises. This is not Trump’s fault.
“This is not Trump’s fault.”
It is not Trump’s fault now. If we have this type of “contagion” again between 2021 and 2024, and Trump is in office then, a repeat of the NIH/CDC/FDA incompetence will be his fault.
We need a law that says in national emergencies national rule making agencies, like the NIH/CDC/FDA must have their authority set aside when private actors are ready, willing and capable of providing either answers, means, methods or actions the NIH/CDC/FDA are not prepared to take. And that same law must command the Chief Executive to use every occasion possible to engage the private sector in solving problems a sluggish bureaucracy cannot solve fast enough.
The real problem is a Liberal creation. It is the mistaken idea that merely by appointing individuals to positions of “expert authorities”, on any matter, that by that mere appointment they become magically endowed with the world’s most superior opinions and decisions on a topic, and the people should treat them like Gods and defer all questions and responsibilities for answers to them. That idea is insane because it is neither logical nor rational.
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