Interesting place. My Grandfather served there in the late '30s as a CPO in the USN.
I certainly hope that all American Wuhan refugees are quarantined for several weeks to ensure that they are not bringing pestilence into our country.
And so many people like how cheaply you can live in China. I’ve even heard that on FR.
So we are going to walk the people off this airplane into SFO? This seems like a bad idea.
If these people are to be brought to the US, they should be flown to an isolated military base, deplaned on the tarmac and go straight to isolation. I think they would jump at the chance, even if it means spending a couple of weeks living in a tent out at Edwards AFB under constant medical supervision.
We should not permit the usual failure-by-incompetence model to function, here. I don’t want to be reading next year about how the US Patient Zero failed to show up for a follow-up appointment.
This news will go over well when it gets out in Wuhan.
Flights to land at crowded international terminals?
Passengers and crew to walk through those crowded terminals before even a cursory health screening?
No quarantine whatsoever?
Dumped on the street in scores of major cities with merely an admonishment to call us during regular business hours should they get sick?
No demeaning face masks, etc.?
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.
From the article:
“Upon arrival in San Francisco, passengers are expected to be quarantined and screened for the virus...”
So they found a crew willing to take an airplane to ground zero?!
Fever screening is clinical insanity.
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Trying to pick out real corona patients from common winter illnesses.
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There is no rapid and accurate diagnostic test.
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The Chinese are driving non-corona patients to clinics where they are packed in with actual corona patients.
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In the US, possible patients are sent home with orders to stay out of the public until symptoms expand and obsolete SARS testing shows a corona virus.
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The Chinese mean well, but communist control type thinking is going to cause a faster infection rate.