The United States and other governments have formulated plans to break the coronavirus quarantine put in place by China.
AP:
China’s death toll from a new viral disease that is causing mounting global concern rose by 25 to at least 106 on Tuesday as the United States and other governments prepared to fly their citizens out of the locked-down city at center of the outbreak.
The total includes the first death in Beijing, the Chinese capital, and 24 more fatalities in Hubei province, where the first illnesses from the newly identified coronavirus occurred in December.
Asian stock markets tumbled for a second day, dragged down by worries about the virus’s global economic impact.
The U.S. Consulate in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, where authorities cut off most access Jan. 22 in an effort to contain the disease, was preparing to fly its diplomats and some other Americans out of the city on Wednesday. Japan and South Korea said they would send planes to Wuhan this week to evacuate their citizens. France, Mongolia and other governments also planned evacuations.
This is obviously insane.
How can anybody think it is remotely responsible to fly planes into an area that’s been quarantined because of a deadly virus so hundreds of people can be flown out of the area? Just flying people in and out of the quarantine zone risks spreading the virus to other areas.
Why hasn’t all air travel to China been suspended yet? That would be the most obvious thing to do considering how grave the situation is.
This policy is so stupid that it appears to be a deliberate attempt to spread the virus. It’s as if they are intentionally trying to cause a global pandemic with this retardation.
