Biker wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2020 8:31 pm
Stapes wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2020 8:22 pm
FreakShowFanatic wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2020 8:18 pm
Stapes wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2020 8:15 pm
FreakShowFanatic wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2020 8:12 pm
Stapes wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2020 8:08 pm
There are almost 4,000 cases so far, not 1700
You do realize that that's roughly 0.00001142857% of the US population. Just sayin'. I'm sure it'll get worse but it seems that society and the government is doing a whole hell of a lot to prevent it.
I made no opinion. just stating a fact against incorrect information.
Maybe not in the specific post you're referring to now but in a whole hell of a lot of posts you made earlier, you provided your strong opinion about what a shit job government is doing to combat this virus. I just provided you with mine, I think they're doing pretty good overall.
your opinion is wrong. They are a day late and a dollar short and are now scrambling to put lipstick on a pig. Its the governors and the mayors of cities who are taking control.
Trump cut flights to China and Korea weeks ago you stupid, partisan cunt
sorry. not true. Distorted facts as usual.
As Azar explained when he announced the travel restrictions on Jan. 31, the policy prohibits non-U.S. citizens, other than the immediate family of U.S. citizens and permanent residents, who have traveled to China within the last two weeks from entering the U.S.
At a House subcommittee hearing on the coronavirus on Feb. 5, Ron Klain, White House Ebola response coordinator under the Obama administration, took issue with the characterization of the travel restrictions as a travel “ban.”
“We don’t have a travel ban,” Klain said. “We have a travel Band-Aid right now. First, before it was imposed, 300,000 people came here from China in the previous month. So, the horse is out of the barn.”
“There’s no restriction on Americans going back and forth,” Klain said. “There are warnings. People should abide by those warnings. But today, 30 planes will land in Los Angeles that either originated in Beijing or came here on one-stops, 30 in San Francisco, 25 in New York City. Okay? So, unless we think that the color of the passport someone carries is a meaningful public health restriction, we have not placed a meaningful public health restriction.”
Indeed, on Jan. 24, a week before the travel restrictions, the CDC confirmed two cases of the novel coronavirus in the U.S. from people who had returned from Wuhan, China, where the outbreak began.
Furthermore, Klain said, the import of goods from China is exempt from the travel restrictions, “and, of course, the people who fly the planes and drive the boats that bring those goods from China. We couldn’t ban that activity. We vitally need that. Ninety percent of the antibiotics in this country come from China. All kinds of vital medical supplies … we will use to treat people. So, travel bans … that’s not what we’re imposing, that’s not what exists.”
As part of the travel restrictions, Azar announced that any U.S. citizen returning to the U.S. who had been in Hubei Province in China in the previous 14 days would be subject to mandatory quarantine and health screening. U.S. citizens returning from mainland China outside Hubei Province were ordered to undergo health screenings and “up to 14 days of monitored self-quarantine to ensure they’ve not contracted the virus and do not pose a public health risk,” Azar said.
At the time the restrictions were announced, there were only six confirmed cases of the novel virus in the U.S. The outbreak, which began in Wuhan, China, at the end of 2019, has now spread to more than 70 countries, including the U.S. According to a Johns Hopkins University case tracker and a New York Times database, as of March 6, more than 250 people in the U.S. have been infected with the new disease, known as COVID-19, and at least 14 have died.
I blame Biker.
