San Jose: 3 TSA officers have tested positive for coronavirus

[Leghorn21]

JUST IN: Three TSA officers at #SanJose Int’l Airport have tested positive for #coronavirus. TSA: “all TSA employees they have come in contact with (them) over the past 14 days are quarantined at home.

Link to tweet

[drray23]

1. What about all the passengers ?

Were they screeners ? If so, its potentially thousands of people.

[jberryhill]

3. Yup

[MerryBlooms]

4. Yeah, potential covid-19 wildfire.

[jberryhill]

2. And what this means...

Is that at least one passenger was traipsing around the Bay Area spreading it before departing, and exposed everyone in the terminal and aboard the plane.

[MerryBlooms]

5. Lack of preparedness falling directly on the shitshow of the trump administration.

[CountAllVotes]

6. More evil and sickness

care of dump the dicktator.

[RockRaven]

7. The time to gain the benefit of addressing air travel as a risk -- with HUGE cost, of course -- is

way, way, way in the rearview mirror. It would have been worth the cost of completely shutting down transpacific (or even international, full stop) air travel to prevent/slow the spread of this virus from Asia to the US, and that includes the cessation of repatriation of US citizens/residents from China and other areas where the outbreak was on-going. But -- and this is CRITICALLY important -- the time for that would have been 2 months ago.

The fact of 3 TSA agents getting infected is a symptom of that failure. These agents are not a hazard to air travel, they are a sign of the failure to address the air travel aspect of disease-spread when it was still relevant to the big picture.

But Trump et al were maliciously negligent, and now most states have his disease. There are no take-backs or do-overs.

It can be spread by car, mass transit, and ambulation now. The horse is totally out of the barn. It hardly matters now what you do with the TSA agents' co-worker contacts -- that's fucking window-dressing at this point.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

11. K&R. Amen.

Good perspective.

See: https://www.democraticunderground.com/10181329181

KY............

[Skittles]

8. imagine how many people they came in contact with

yup

[AlexSFCA]

9. airports are gonna be even emptier after this news

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

10. Yet another reason to despise the TSA.

[lapfog_1]

12. We just gotta stop.

Stop everything... everyone go home, get tested, clean everything with people in bunny suits.

Quit treating this like the "flu".

Take 1 month off... everyone go home... everyone gets $1000 to spend on food delivery and what not... anyone not in essential services (water, sewer, power, police, fire, medical, and delivery) take a month off...

WFH if you can... otherwise staycation.

Don't pay bills for rent, mortgage, etc. We will figure all that out later. 30 days like we all left the planet and then returned.