@journeywithme2 yes. Not a good feeling at all! There's one opening near us in WA that apparently has no PLUMBING indoors, so the quarantined will have to use an outdoor porto-potty. I'm not sure what the details are, but It doesn't sound kosher. https://www.pnwlive.com/blog/2020/03/05/deeply-disenfranchised-white-center-to-house-coronavirus-quarantine/
564 people in the US have the virus in 34 states.
Huge Jump. Guess those test kits are getting some use.
16 million people in lockdown in Italy.
Stocks worldwide are collapsing Monday, as oil prices tanked amid continued uncertainty due in part to the spread of the novel coronavirus, triggering selloffs worldwide.
Now for the Good News!
- Following the discharge of most patients, 11 of the 14 makeshift hospitals in Wuhan that were built for treatment of the new coronavirus have closed, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV said.
'The White House overruled health officials who wanted to recommend that elderly and physically fragile Americans be advised not to fly on commercial airlines because of the new coronavirus, a federal official told The Associated Press.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention submitted the plan this week as a way of trying to control the virus, but White House officials ordered the air travel recommendation be removed, said the official who had direct knowledge of the plan. Trump administration officials have since suggested certain people should consider not traveling, but they have stopped short of the stronger guidance sought by the CDC.'
https://time.com/5799117/white-house-coronavirus-seniors-flying/
NBC reports
Members of Congress are becoming increasingly anxious about coronavirus and there is growing pressure on leadership to take steps to protect lawmakers — even potentially recessing for a period of weeks, according to two Democratic sources.
Aging members of Congress should indeed be concerned about the rapidly advancing numbers of COVid-19 (one of a number of coronaviruses, the umbrella term even for the common cold, hence all the new naming we now hear)
Two members of Congress, Sen. Ted Cruz and congressman Paul Gosar, say they are isolating themselves after determining they had contact at a political conference with a man infected with the coronavirus.
Cruz says he had brief contact with the man at the Conservative Political Action Conference nearly two weeks ago and would spend the next few days at his home in Texas until a full 14 days had passed since their interaction.
Gosar says he had sustained contact with the man at CPAC and that he and three members of his senior staff are under self-quarantine. The office of the Arizona Republican will be closed for the week.
https://apnews.com/0319b9ac8c57805a2e2f5146f0254ca8
Besides Cruz and Gosar, the COAC schedule listed three other senators and 12 house members scheduled to speak.
They included No. 2 House GOP leader Steve Scalise of Louisiana, No. 3 Republican leader Liz Cheney of Wyoming and congressman Mark Meadows of North Carolina, who has since become the White House chief of staff.Also on the schedule was Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, the wife of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
So far none of these additional attendees have discussed whether they shook hands with the Covid-19 positive attendee or announced personal self-quarantine measures.
I’ve been feeling so heavy, depressed and tired of late, it’s a literal pain in my chest, a heaviness in my stomach, work is chaotic and that is reflected in everything happening in the world too. First the bushfires and now the coronavirus.
I really want to be part of the wave of positivity to get us out of this chaos. How is this community coming together to achieve that?
Sending love and light to you and your family and friends that this awful virus doesn't touch you. ? ❤️ ❤️
Dear all: My husband and I have saved up for the past few years for a trip at the end of April (4/23-5/1), for an 8 day/9 night trip to a resort in Playa Mujeres, Mexico. We are scheduled to fly out of JFK (direct flight to Cancun) and stay at a very nice all-inclusive. We contacted Delta vacations and they said we have until March 23 to cancel if we choose to and get most of our money back.
I'm so unsure at this moment what to do, we still have a couple weeks to decide if we want to cancel, but if anyone would like to weigh in on what they feel or see about going with this whole coronovirus situation, I'd be so very appreciative.
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From the beginning, the Trump administration’s attempts to forestall an outbreak of the the coronavirus/COVID-19 was marked by a raging internal debate about how far to go in telling Americans the truth.
Even as the government’s scientists and leading health experts raised the alarm early and pushed for aggressive action, they faced resistance and doubt at the White House ,especially from the president over concerns about the financial market and panic among the public.
This article has a really great timeline as events unfolded and affected the White House and how one woman actually provided information a day ahead of the clamping down order went out.
Inside the Trump Administration, Debates Rage Over What to Tell Public:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/07/us/politics/trump-coronavirus.html
And now that so many members of Congress and President Trump and V.P. Pence all were in attendance at the CPAC convention and at least two of them are in self quarantine after repeated hand shaking with a now identified COVID-19 patient, I can only the rage and worry now going on!
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