Should we not allow visitors from China into this country while the Coronavirus is still active?
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Silly question. You don’t block everyone. You block the people who show signs of the virus.
Right now, there are people in 30 countries that have the coronavirus. Are you going to stop all air travel everywhere?
You do this sort of thing in a targeted way, not a sledgehammer.
If you also prevent colonials who are in china (vacationers, businesspeople, diplomats) from returning, sure, why not.
@ragingloli They were flown in yesterday I believe.
@seawulf Many colleges across the US are restricting travel to and from currently.
@seawulf575 the Government is way ahead of you.
Washington Post reports: CBP is denying entry to foreign nationals who have visited China, and also sticking any returning US Citizens in quarantine (AKA FEMA camp/border detention).
This is all a storm in a teacup, ignore the global media & there show business fear mongering!
The virusl is contagious before symptoms appear, and millions have already traveled to and from so IMHO it is like closing the barn door after the animals are out.
Air Canada is curtailing flights to and from China as well.
But before a ban, just inform visitors like returning citizens if you come expect a quarantine, to make sure you safe to be out in public.
Of course we shouldn’t. Even the silly quarantine of two weeks is in vein; I heard early on that it seemed to have a month-long incubation. A two week quarantine is too short. If we’re going to go to the trouble and expense to quarantine, make it matter. I read that the city where it all started was quarantined but over half the city has escaped.
I saw a report a few days back that the coronavirus is nothing more than a simple case of the flu. It’s supposed to be a strain that we’ve not seen before. Logically speaking, 170 people out of billions is considered an acceptable loss…unless it’s you!!! Also, I bet very few Chinese ever take a flu shot so their death rate should be quite high….considering.
I can understand why the airlines are limiting flights. Symptoms take weeks to manifest themselves, so they could be here & passing it on before even knowing that they have it. I think part of the panic is caused by fake news with no supporting facts. There was a guy in NC who just returned from China & the front page headline read Possible Coronavirus Case Hits North Carolina. About a week later hidden way in the back there was a report North Carolina Coronavirus Turns Out To Be The Flu At the same time, I don’t want to be sitting next to a potential carrier!!! Most of the cases here in the US are from citizens who have traveled to China & caught it NOT Chinese visiting here with it. Should we ban US citizens who got sick while visiting??? Of course, you now have citizens of many European countries who came home with it also. I don’t see a generic ban as the answer!!!
@SQUEEKY2 so…we should quarantine them but not stop them from coming to your country? Is that really different than interring illegal immigrants that come across our borders?
It’s a bit different, you wouldn’t be putting them in cages separating children from their parents with no real plan on how to reunite them again.
And is that what you guys are doing with your own citizens that have to go into quarantine?
Not really much of a difference as I see it. You have people entering this country that pose potential health risks, yet because it is a flu it seems okay to say inter them until you can determine if they are healthy and have a right to be here. Illegal immigrants have reintroduced and/or expanded several health issues that were basically eliminated in this country. What is the difference again?
Talk to your prez. If we can justify puttig 4,500 children in cages left to sleep on a concrete floor just because they were born to the wrong parents, I don’t see any harm in delaying the entry date of someone bringing in in a virus that could possibly wipe out our country. Better them being delayed entry than our citizens laying in a hospital dying. Which member of your family are you ready to let go? Maybe I’m selfish, I love my husband and daughter and we don’t visit China; so keep them away from us
They won’t be put in jail. They’ll be staying in a nice hotel until the CDC decides they are safe to enter. They’ll have a comfy bed with real linens and a plush pillow. We’ll treat them better than the Chinese government will treat them and they won’t leave until they’re well. They’ll die if they stay in China. I see us doing them a favor
The global economy is shaky enough just from the fear of this thing, and other reasons. Giving paranoid speculators something meaty, like massive, open ended travel restrictions, could do a lot of harm.
Hong Kong is banning them altogether & they’re from the same country.
One of the tricky things about pandemics is that when you go around punishing economies with things like blanket travel restriction, or basically anything that punishes a country for having a disease, is that you encourage them not to report, to bury information about the disease, and generally avoid letting the truth get out. Spanish flu was so bad, partly because no one would admit that it was real during WW1. Of course, the disease will spread, and everyone will be less equipped to stop it. Reasonable, science based precautions are acceptable to most people, even if it does hurt the economy.
Al Jazeera posted this today. Didn’t even shock me.
Not sure what they’re up to with this one.
Most of the time infections can be compared to a bad cold, causing mild to moderate upper respiratory problems such as a runny nose and sore throat.
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