The United States government has announced a plan to try and evacuate Americans who have been caught within the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak inside of China. This plan is utterly stupid and retarded. The coronavirus has already reached the United States and bringing people from the epicenter of this outbreak back to America only risks infecting more people.
A third US case of coronavirus has been confirmed in California, after diagnoses in Chicago and Washington – while Canada confirmed it’s first case Saturday.
More than 2,000 cases of the virus have been confirmed by several governments worldwide as at least 56 people – most of them in China – have died.
Orange County Health Care Agency announced that a patient in California had tested positive for novel coronavirus.
The agency said the patient had traveled from Wuhan and reached out to the health care agency prior to being diagnosed. They were given guidance to avoiding exposing the public to the virus while waiting for test results.
‘The individual has now been transported to a local hospital and is in isolation in good condition,’ added the agency who did not identify the patient. ‘In consultation with the CDC and the California Department of Public Health, the HCA is following up directly with all individuals who have had close contact with the case and are at risk of infection.’
The CDC advises that casual contact, such as being in the same grocery store as an infected person is unlikely to spread the virus, and that ‘the current risk of local transmission remains low.’
Canada confirmed its first case Saturday, as a man in his 50s was quarantined in Toronto, while two cases other cases were previously confirmed in the United States – one in Chicago and another in Snohomish County, Washington.
News of the virus spreading into North America comes as the United States government warns it won’t have enough seats on a rescue plane to evacuate all US citizens from the Chinese city of Wuhan amid a deadly outbreak of coronavirus – and the jet won’t even arrive for two days.
The US consulate is reaching out to all Americans registered as living in Wuhan – considered to be the epicenter of the deadly outbreak – to offer them a seat on a charter flight scheduled for Tuesday.
A source familiar with the chartered evacuation flight told CNN that roughly 1,000 Americans live in Wuhan, and those who choose to leave will be forced to pay for their spot on the Boeing 767 jet, which carries around 230 people.
The logical thing to do would be to suspend any and all air travel to the impacted areas. But this is not being done because I guess such a plan would be racist or something. And the fact that they want to literally transport people from that area over here is just insane.
This is such a dumb thing to do but not surprising considering that the United States government continually does dumb things. Or who knows, maybe the United States government is doing this intentionally and just wants everyone to die.
