They had to come home. It was their only chance. They all have to be quarantined and given lung CTs, but we can do that, and they had to come home. I'm glad someone made the right decision.

 

I think it is like bringing that known Ebola patient home. One plane full of known patients and potential patients we can handle. Everyone was doomed to infection on the cruise ship. There was no standard medical quarantine going on. In fact, bringing everyone home immediately is what would have cut the danger down. Yes, there is risk, but it is manageable. The loners turning up from travel to China are more worrisome to me. Hopefully we can continue to catch those souls quickly.

 

I agree about bringing them home for better care, but it said that the other passengers on that plane were not told. I disagree with that.

 

Ok, this article says that the 14 were separated from the other passengers on the planes

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tr...lew-back-in-u-s-without-his-permission-report



The truth is out there

 

THEY WERE NOT TOLD?!? OMG I saw a video of how they sat in the plane. The air circulates from the nose to the rear of the plane. They were in three groups, with as much vacant seating as possible between the groups. The hopefully healthy people were seated up front and the infected people were at the back

 

Yes, I posted another link, in another comment, about how they were separated.
Still doesn’t change the fact, those who weren’t sick, weren’t told though.


The truth is out there

 

Oh, I didn't see this before I posted about how I saw them seated. I remember 3 groups. Maybe one was staff.

 

Yes, our posts crossed a second time. You're right--not being informed isn't right. But I'm glad they got home, and maybe they wouldn't have if they had understood the risk. That's the best spin I can put on it. God bless and protect them, and I hope they stay well.

 

I stopped by Kaiser yesterday to pick up my asthma medicine and, instead of Hello, the pharmacy counter lady greeted me with, We don't have any masks; don't ask for them. They are made in China.

I said, is the US going to start manufacturing? She didn't know. I told her I had my respirator and she said, yeah, people were getting supplies from Lowes and Home Depot, but the hospitals are wiped out of supplies. (I bet they do have masks but are saving them for their own workers. At least I hope so.)

 

3M makes them in the USA. You can buy them, at least online (not sure about in stores).

There was a story on the local news about their plants working round the clock (3M headquarters are in Minnesota).

 

Uh oh.....is it off and running?

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/...ties-lockdown-death-toll-rises-china-n1141321



I don't like the sounds of this. I don't know about anyone else but I'm considering stocking up on canned goods and other foods that last a long time. Maybe masks or even respirators.....just in case. I hope I would never need them but it doesn't hurt to be prepared.

 

Now is the time. I picked up extra prescriptions so I wouldn't have to go near the hospital and I laid in some canned chili. But I know it wouldn't hurt to do it up properly. It's just not in my grasshopper personality.

I watched a home prepper video who showed what to buy in case you need to set up a containment section in your home for an ill family member. It was actually upbeat. Pick a corner with a window for the sake of the sick person to have a view. What supplies to buy to create the blocked off space (reminded me of the way Walter and Jesse set up a cook space in the houses that were being bug bombed). She ended with, now, stop worrying, get on with life, and let's all be kind to each other. I would join her group for an apocalypse. lol

 

Unless it was a special plane with two separate air recirculating systems, which I doubt, they weren't isolated from the other passengers, IMO. That's just govspeak.