Here is an astounding claim related to the 2019-nCoV virus outbreak:
As foreign governments evacuated their citizens from China this week, the government of China said it was arranging chartered flights to bring Wuhan residents who were overseas back to the epicenter of the outbreak.
Citing the “practical difficulties recently encountered” by residents abroad, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement on Friday that evacuations would begin as soon as possible.
The decision to facilitate people’s return came after Wuhan’s mayor revealed that five million people had left the city last week ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday, before travel restrictions were enforced.
You can read the rest @
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/31/world/asia/coronavirus-china.html
Is it plausible that ANY of these people would want to return to the source of the outbreak? I sure would not. By the way, it would take over 10,000 flights to get them all back by air. Not a realistic scenario.
And how many of these FIVE MILLION symptom-less persons carried the virus to the rest of the world? We should know in the next week or two, and hopefully the number is low.
Here is my take - Experts have predicted we will experience a pandemic sooner or later, and that it will be BAD. Yet obviously no one is really prepared for such a thing. The US spends $1 trillion per year on "security" (military, intelligence, preparedness, etc.), yet we're getting NOTHING from that expenditure ... other than guaranteeing the rich will stay rich and even get richer.
Not a wise investment, if you ask me.
Here is further proof we are not prepared - we don't even yet have a quarantine facility for 1000 people:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.activistpost.com/2020/02/pentagon-preparing-to-quarantine-up-to-1000-people-with-coronavirus-if-necessary.html
A true pandemic will require MANY such facilities. When will we build them?
Instead of wasting money on Israel, let's start taking care of business here at home.