I retract my negative reaction to the news that coronavirus patients

[Baitball Blogger]

were returned to the US for treatment.

It was easy to overreact when I read that the CDC wasn't keen about the idea. And I certainly saw the harm in the plan when we didn't have a fool-proof process in place and there was a major slip up that may have caused an unintentional exposure.

But here's the plus side: Patients can recover quicker when they're not stressed, as they would be if they were still abroad. And, also, our health system is acquiring valuable, first-hand experience with this virus. Now, all we need is an executive and legislative branch working together to free up money and resources to get everybody up to speed.

[lapfog_1]

1. It's not that the patients were brought to the US

That should have been done some time ago.

However, bringing people who have yet to test positive in the same airplane with the people who already tested positive (14 of them) was absolutely criminal. Apparently some bright person thought that draping some plastic between first class (infected) with coach (non-inflicted) would do the trick.

The CDC said that this was a stupid idea and that TWO charter planes should be used.

[Baitball Blogger]

2. Oh, I agree here completely.

The slip-up I was referring to was the one where a group that was brought to the U.S. was improperly released because they thought they had tested negative, when they hadn't been tested at all.

[shanti]

3. SOMEBODY made that decision

to use one plane. Hmmm....

[lapfog_1]

4. I haven't heard who

but either they were so callous that they figured "it doesn't matter, they are all getting infected anyway" or "it's not so bad, everyone will probably live even if they get sick".

Either way, it was just criminal.

[Crunchy Frog]

5. Or they were too cheap to spring for two planes.

[SDANation]

6. 3% mortality rate

Stop the hysteria

[Coventina]

8. You clearly know nothing of infectious diseases. 3% is really high.

If 3 out of 100 people infected die, that's a shit-ton of dead people.

[mercuryblues]

7. This is what happens

When a presidunce who thinks he only hires the best people around. Those best people fleece the government for their personal gain. Republicans cut budgets for the agencies that handle this and the presidunce fires the pandemic reaction team, because the previous President was black and saw the need agencies to work together to handle pandemics like this.

this chicken needs to be tethered around trumps neck. He and he alone is responsible for this. We are over a month into this and he is just now developing a plan to handle this.

You know what this reminds me of? Bill Clinton saw that having hurricane relief supplies in certain areas for a rapid response and how that saved lives. Baby Bush let people drown instead of using them because he hired "heck of a job Brownie" to head FEMA.

This rot needs to be laid at their feet. Maybe trump can get the president of Puerto Rico to give him some advice