Trump put coronavirus-infected Americans on plane full of healthy people -- over CDC objection

[spanone]

A Week Ago in case you missed this....unbelievable. trump knows more than the experts.

The Trump State Department overrode the advice of the Centers for Disease Control and put American citizens infected with the coronavirus on a plane full of healthy people, despite the risk that they could spread the infection.

The Washington Post reports that the CDC wanted to keep 14 coronavirus-infected Americans in Japan instead of flying them home because they could infect healthy people.

However, the State Department believed it could bring the infected Americans home by quarantining them on the plane with a plastic-aligned enclosure.

“It was like the worst nightmare,” said a senior U.S. official who was involved with the decision. “Quite frankly, the alternative could have been pulling grandma out in the pouring rain, and that would have been bad, too.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/02/trump-white-house-put-coronavirus-infected-americans-plane-full-of-healthy-people-over-cdc-objections/

[BusyBeingBest]

1. It's ok, they totally separated the air on the plane with some plastic.

And I'm sure they took the plane out of service and really scrubbed it down according to CDC standards, too. And everyone wore gloves and gowns and masks and they had a dedicated crew taking care of them. I'm sure this all happened.

[spanone]

2. It's pure insanity.

[BusyBeingBest]

3. Reminds me of the ebola scare, when some guy with ebola barfed

on a street and the city in Texas (Houston?) sent out some unprotected workers to hose the puke down (basically splattered it everywhere) into the gutter. That could have been pretty tragic. We got lucky.

[Squidly]

4. We are so fucked

[dewsgirl]

5. Indeed.😳

[DEbluedude]

6. Of course he did.