The Department of Homeland Security offered a few paragraphs of detail Wednesday night after President Donald Trump announced the suspension of travel from Europe into America for 30 days, excluding travel from Britain.
The virus is already here, dumbass.
Let’s lock the door AFTER the 72" flatscreen is stolen and out the door.
The horse isn’t out of the barn, it’s in the next county. Very stable * SNIFF* genius.
Just resign.
Take Pence with you.
And let the grown-ups run things for a change.
If it’s not too late.
I’m not trying to be hyperbolic (Don, Jr., are you listening?), but does anyone out there think we are standing on the precipice of a cliff, about to fall?
The reason for my concern is four of my employees are under quarantine for the virus for the next 14 days.
Currently feeling like a Black Death fall is not in the cards, but something like a 1918-1919 fall may well be.
The latter is mitigated in some respects by the fact that the latter disproportionately affected the young and healthy, while the deaths due to coronavirus are going to be disproportionately the old and unwell. So at least the labor force will mostly hold up and we won’t experience some sort of societal collapse.
But the pervasive spread of just-in-time inventorying, from Amazon to Ford to my kitchen, has me extremely thankful for the latter. If the labor force got substantially knocked out for a few weeks, I would be getting very hungry.
More like already falling, but it feels like not moving at all because we can’t see the bottom.
A lot of the people positive are now being found to be in the 40 year range, they just weren’t being tested - so much for mostly the old getting it.
Is the travel ban on nationals from those countries, or is it on travel directly from those countries? That’s not a small difference. Viruses don’t really care about the nationality of the person they infect.
There’s always entry through Canada.
Stupid at this level should be toxic. I swear. This is yet another instance when an issue is horribly misdiagnosed and addressed in the most ineffective way possible.
Morons. Morons all.
noonm, I agree with your assessment. With Trump’s shitty address tonight and my four employees in jeopardy, I do feel like we are in free fall.
Nobody’s ever said anything like that. To first order, only the old die from it.
Interesting that the UK is not included in the list. They have many more cases than, say, Iceland, Portugal, etc. Hard to understand how they’re thinking. Not hard to understand whether they’re thinking rationally… it would be a new experience for them, to be fact-based.
Maybe if you speak English, you can’t bring the virus! Ireland isn’t on his list either… which would make more sense, given the low numbers of infection there. But, make sense? Seriously?
This European travel ban is not anti-coronavirus strategy. It’s punishment for the EU, written by Ken Cuccinelli, Stephen Miller, and the other xenophobes in the White House who resent the open borders of the Schengen Zone and are willing to destroy global markets to make their point.
I just rewatched the video, it was in Milan, and they said those in the 40 yr range were getting horrible cases, but did not give a death number.
What if there is a virus that makes people stupid? How would we ever know it was here?
The horse is on the train that has left the station.
“In January and February, the Administration issued similar travel restrictions on individuals who had been in China and Iran. That action proved to be effective in slowing the spread of the virus to the U.S., while public health officials prepared”
Prepared? How? You mean like having millions of test kits ready to go when the first cases hit?
Or any test kits that worked?
It is. Have you seen what Patient Nero looks like these days? He’s drowning in his own bile.