For Americans, a nightmare escaping Wuhan, then 14 days of quarantine

[Dennis Donovan]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/for-americans-a-nightmare-escaping-wuhan-then-14-days-of-quarantine/2020/02/05/d303daca-4859-11ea-8124-0ca81effcdfb_story.html


An aircraft chartered by the State Department to evacuate Americans from the Chinese city of Wuhan arrives at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego. (Denis Poroy/Reuters)

By Siobhán O'Grady, Lenny Bernstein, Anna Fifield and William Wan

Feb. 5, 2020 at 9:42 p.m. EST

The airport was a 16-hour overnight vigil of lines and paperwork and stress and delays, of squawking children and the worried well, all trying to board the same two planes.

Ningxi Xu’s name was on the list. But until the converted cargo plane was rising into the sky over Wuhan, China, she couldn’t be certain she would be one of the lucky Americans to escape the center of the coronavirus outbreak and make it back home.

With a blue band fastened around her right wrist, she became passenger 199, took her seat with her government-issue boxed lunch and face mask, and left on one of the two flights that landed in California on Wednesday.

One flight delivered 178 people to Travis Air Force Base outside Sacramento. The other landed there, then went on to Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, where about 170 people exited. Two more flights are leaving Wuhan and arriving in the United States on Thursday. An additional 195 people who arrived Jan. 28 are quarantined at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside, Calif.

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I hadn't seen this posted from last night?

[kimbutgar]

1. Modern day concentration camps

[SharonClark]

2. What part of this story is like a concentration camp?

[kimbutgar]

3. I watched the news on tv about the camps in California

They showed the inside of the plane and facilities the people are going to. They can not leave and are held like prisoners. Seeing the images gave me a chill and reminded me the videos of those camps. It was a visceral thing to me.

Just thing as MF45 gets more emboldened anyone with even a minor cold can be suspected of having the virus. It is a slippery slope.

[marble falls]

5. You don't believe in quarantining people in a possible pandemic situation?

[marble falls]

4. Good question. Its not like they're being held in a FEMA/Walmart under armed guards for ...

an indeterminate period for political/ethic reasons.

[alittlelark]

6. Unfortunately nessesary. Quarantines work.

With up to a 2 wk incubation period during which time ppl are contagious, but have no symptoms, this virus is indeed a serious threat. Most flus have symptoms within hours or a couple days - the person is no longer going to work and is 'down'. This virus is uniquely dangerous.