Comments on: Coronavirus Chaos Cripples The US

By: Wil

Wil — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:40:18 +0000

NY Post:
Broadway will shut down for four to six weeks beginning tonight, due to the coronavirus outbreak, several sources told The Post. In what is the worst crisis the industry has faced since the attack on the World Trade Center in 2001, several shows will not be able to recover.

By: Wil

Wil — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:10:38 +0000

NY Post:
A passenger on a JetBlue flight from JFK Airport has tested positive for the coronavirus after landing in Palm Beach, Florida, according to reports.

Flight 253, with 114 passengers and crew aboard, landed at Palm Beach International Airport shortly before 9 p.m. Wednesday but remained on the tarmac for about three hours, according to WPTV.

One of the passengers told the station that a man near him was taken to the back of the aircraft.

“He was wearing masks and gloves. His wife was sitting in the same row as me and mentioned to others that he wasn’t feeling well,” Scott Rodman said.

“She said he had gotten a phone call with his test results right before we had taken off, implying that he had a positive test but not actually saying it,” he added.

Just before 11 p.m., two people wearing masks and gloves were seen walking off the plane, WPBF reported. About a half-hour later, the rest of the passengers were allowed off.

Palm Beach Fire Rescue officials told WPTV that the Florida Department of Health had spoken with all the passengers and that the isolated area where they deplaned was being sterilized.

Passengers who had been sitting near the infected flier also were given instructions to call the Health Department with any concerns.

“An individual on this flight got a text that he tested positive for the coronavirus,” Dr. Alina Alonso, health chief in Palm Beach County, told passengers at the airport, according to WPTV.

“He has not been coughing or sneezing or anything on the plane. At this point, you’re free to walk around and move around because, most likely, you’re not going to have anything because there was no activity. The way you get this virus is somebody has to cough or sneeze on you,” she added.

Rodman said he didn’t “feel good” about the episode.

“The guy was sitting, you know, five feet from me, and his wife was sitting two feet from me, so no, I’m not feeling great about it,” he told the outlet.

A JetBlue spokesman told The Post that the airline is urging any customers “who do not feel well or are concerned they may have coronavirus to not fly until cleared to travel by a doctor or health professional.”

By: Saleem

Saleem — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 17:45:35 +0000

When they shut down the NBA and Tom Hanks said he has it, that was it for me. There are people working next to us right now or in our family who have it and we don’t know it yet. This is going to get much worse before it gets any better.

By: Mr.BD

Mr.BD — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 16:42:55 +0000

Truth you said it right. Trump is in way over his head. The only thing he knows to do is act like a bully and call names. Trying to save lives in a crisis and calm people down is not his thing. So yeah he lies and tweets because that is all he knows. I know I am not saying anything nobody else knows but he has to go. He is a danger to national security now and is the wrong one to be leading us during all this.

By: Truthiz1

Truthiz1 — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 13:31:53 +0000

National Review Reader:
Taiwan is a densely packed city right off the coast of China. By all estimations they should have been among the hardest hit countries. Instead they’ve topped out at about 40 cases because the central government is well organized, funded, and capable of marshaling whatever resources are necessary at a moments’ notice. Taken at scale, our response pales in comparison.

This is the ultimate lesson in “regulation and administration are necessary because the actions of One can impose a cost on others”. Politicians can pretend everything politically inconvenient is a hoax until you have a pandemic where the consequences are noticed on a wide-scale and in real time, severe enough that Americans are now going to die unnecessarily because of the stupidity and selfishness of those in power. […]