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View Poll Results: Should the United States Announce a Travel Ban to China due to the Killer Virus?
Yes - There should be a ban until the virus is contained. 85 82.52%
No - It's being scared for nothing. 18 17.48%
Voters: 103. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 01-28-2020, 01:15 PM
 
Location: New York
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Originally Posted by Javacoffee View Post
The CDC doesn't want us traveling there, but it apparently has no problem with them traveling here.

WHO admits it was wrong to call the coronavirus a "moderate" threat to the USA. It has changed that assessment to "High". https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20200128_26/

Does anybody but the Chinese know what they're doing?
5 MILLION people have traveled out of Wuhan in the last month. How's that for a delivery system?

This could turn into a pandemic in a heartbeat.


If you handle mail, shopping carts, or anything the public uses, you should make sure not to wipe your eyes and nose. Carry Purell and wash your hands with disinfectant. This is going to be worse than SARS. There's some strange coverups going on. I fear this may be a contagion not meant to be or (God forbid) intentionally released.

 
Old 01-28-2020, 06:51 PM
 
Location: Georgia, USA
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YES!


Why would anyone go there knowing they could very well be stranded.


There's something really wrong with this virus. Wuhan is where the Coronavirus is centered. China has two bioweapon labs there.


Just as with many countries in the past it would be nothing new to test a weaponized virus on their citizens.


Sad but true
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Originally Posted by Originalist View Post
5 MILLION people have traveled out of Wuhan in the last month. How's that for a delivery system?

This could turn into a pandemic in a heartbeat.


If you handle mail, shopping carts, or anything the public uses, you should make sure not to wipe your eyes and nose. Carry Purell and wash your hands with disinfectant. This is going to be worse than SARS. There's some strange coverups going on. I fear this may be a contagion not meant to be or (God forbid) intentionally released.
Not a good idea to weaponize a virus that there is no vaccine or treatment for. You end up making your own forces sick, too. Makes no sense.
 
Old 01-28-2020, 07:27 PM
 
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Not a good idea to weaponize a virus that there is no vaccine or treatment for. You end up making your own forces sick, too. Makes no sense.
That's true, but what makes you sure the Chinese elite don't have a secret vaccine for themselves? Far fetched, I know, but...
 
Old 01-28-2020, 09:12 PM
 
Location: Georgia, USA
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That's true, but what makes you sure the Chinese elite don't have a secret vaccine for themselves? Far fetched, I know, but...
What's the point of being the "elite" if all the peons get killed off?
 
Old 01-29-2020, 06:25 AM
 
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What's the point of being the "elite" if all the peons get killed off?
Don't know. Ask a Nazi.
 
Old 01-29-2020, 06:29 AM
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Location: Great Britain
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All British Citizens are now being returned from Wahan and will spend the next two weeks in quaratine at a military bsse, on arrival back home.

Coronavirus: Britons on Wuhan flights to be quarantined -BBC News

Major Airlines serving China such as British Airways and Virgin are now suspending flights and offering refunds, so it's now becoming a case of not being able to go to China, and the UK Foreign Office is now waring against travelling to China.

Coronavirus: British Airways suspends all flights to mainland China as outbreak spreads - Telegraph

Foreign Office warns Britons not to travel to China amid coronavirus crisis - Metro
 
Old 01-29-2020, 06:52 AM
 
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I saw that the major Airlines in the UK had stopped flying to China.



The really need to do the same in the USA.
 
Old 01-29-2020, 07:55 AM
 
Location: Barrington
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Unless the entire world bans planes, trains, buses and cars from mainland China...
 
Old 01-29-2020, 08:22 AM
 
Location: Long Island
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Just a matter of time before other countries follow suit, creates a real problem for citizens trying to return to their parent country.


Quote:
British Airways and Asian budget carriers Lion Air and Seoul Air are suspending all flights to China as fears spread about the outbreak of the new virus known as 2019-nCoV, which has killed more than 130 people and infected more than 6,000 in mainland China and abroad.
Several other airlines including Finnair, Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific and Singapore-based Jetstar Asia are reducing the number of flights to the country as demand for travel drops because of the outbreak
https://www.usatoday.com/story/trave...na/4606966002/
 
Old 01-29-2020, 08:32 AM
 
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Starbucks just shutdown 2000 of their 4300 stores in China.
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