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Dennis Donovan

(18,770 posts) Tue Jan 28, 2020, 08:14 PM Jan 2020

Breaking CBS reporting WH considering suspending ALL flights between US & China

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Norah O'Donnell🇺🇸 ✔@NorahODonnell

#BREAKING: @CBSNews has learned the White House is considering a suspension of all flights between the US and China amid the outbreak of the deadly new coronavirus. @drlapook reports

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6:43 PM - Jan 28, 2020

Um, that's a LOT of flights & passengers affected.

It also reeks of panic - this WH is rudderless.

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Breaking CBS reporting WH considering suspending ALL flights between US & China (Original Post) Dennis Donovan Jan 2020 OP

Sadly I think it's too late to do any good :( maryellen99 Jan 2020 #1

Whoa! That's going to cause major economic disruption. Claritie Pixie Jan 2020 #2

I hope those US embassy personnel that were flown out will be quarantined rocktivity Jan 2020 #3

Hopefully at home and not in some shitty tent in a parking garage. NutmegYankee Jan 2020 #6

I remember lunasun Jan 2020 #8

Wouldn't it be necessary to suspend all flights from all airports that rzemanfl Jan 2020 #4

I'm thinking any ban would be for inbound as well as outbound? Dennis Donovan Jan 2020 #7

What I am thinking about is people who fly into an airport, in Europe for instance, and pass the flu rzemanfl Jan 2020 #9

I don't disagree with this decision. berni_mccoy Jan 2020 #5

This message was self-deleted by its author Dennis Donovan Jan 2020 #13

Ok so you take a flight from China to Tokyo then transfer planes and take a flight to LA lunasun Jan 2020 #10

Exactly... HipChick Jan 2020 #17

Chump and his fear of germs shanti Jan 2020 #11

Exactly enough Jan 2020 #12

questions questions questions dweller Jan 2020 #14

toothpaste! get back in that tube! 0rganism Jan 2020 #15

He going to start banning cargo ships too? durablend Jan 2020 #16

Commercial aircraft is huge. Lots of business that relies on airflights for commercial components. OAITW r.2.0 Jan 2020 #19

Considering??? This thing is doubling by the day. . underpants Jan 2020 #18

maryellen99

(3,790 posts)

1. Sadly I think it's too late to do any good :(

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Original post)

Tue Jan 28, 2020, 08:15 PM

Jan 2020

Claritie Pixie

(2,199 posts)

2. Whoa! That's going to cause major economic disruption.

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Original post)

Tue Jan 28, 2020, 08:16 PM

Jan 2020

rocktivity

(44,581 posts)

3. I hope those US embassy personnel that were flown out will be quarantined

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Original post)

Tue Jan 28, 2020, 08:17 PM

Jan 2020

But it all depends on what Putin has to say about it, I suppose

rocktivity

NutmegYankee

(16,201 posts)

6. Hopefully at home and not in some shitty tent in a parking garage.

Reply to rocktivity (Reply #3)

Tue Jan 28, 2020, 08:20 PM

Jan 2020

I was proud of that nurse from Maine. She was right to push back on that crap.

lunasun

(21,646 posts)

8. I remember

Reply to NutmegYankee (Reply #6)

Tue Jan 28, 2020, 08:23 PM

Jan 2020

rzemanfl

(29,575 posts)

4. Wouldn't it be necessary to suspend all flights from all airports that

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Original post)

Tue Jan 28, 2020, 08:17 PM

Jan 2020

have flights from China? Just askin'.

Dennis Donovan

(18,770 posts)

7. I'm thinking any ban would be for inbound as well as outbound?

Reply to rzemanfl (Reply #4)

Tue Jan 28, 2020, 08:22 PM

Jan 2020

"all flights between the US and China"

Sounds bi-directional.

rzemanfl

(29,575 posts)

9. What I am thinking about is people who fly into an airport, in Europe for instance, and pass the flu

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Reply #7)

Tue Jan 28, 2020, 08:27 PM

Jan 2020

to people in that airport who fly to the U.S.

berni_mccoy

(23,018 posts)

5. I don't disagree with this decision.

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Original post)

Tue Jan 28, 2020, 08:19 PM

Jan 2020

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Dennis Donovan This message was self-deleted by its author.

lunasun

(21,646 posts)

10. Ok so you take a flight from China to Tokyo then transfer planes and take a flight to LA

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Original post)

Tue Jan 28, 2020, 08:27 PM

Jan 2020

Is it only direct flights ? How can this work ?
Or is this another stock market shattering announcement that will never happen

HipChick

(25,485 posts)

17. Exactly...

Reply to lunasun (Reply #10)

Tue Jan 28, 2020, 09:13 PM

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shanti

(21,675 posts)

11. Chump and his fear of germs

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Original post)

Tue Jan 28, 2020, 08:28 PM

Jan 2020

is probably shitting his pants.

enough

(13,265 posts)

12. Exactly

Reply to shanti (Reply #11)

Tue Jan 28, 2020, 08:32 PM

Jan 2020

dweller

(23,684 posts)

14. questions questions questions

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Original post)

Tue Jan 28, 2020, 08:54 PM

Jan 2020

ya know the brilliant mind of fatnixon has this all worked out already
stop all flights from Jina, case closed
95% tariffs on all flights from Jina !
and those cargo ships? those huuge cargo ships ? sink them in the Pacific !
TAKE THEM OUT before they reach MY country's shores ...
And close ALL the borders with my BIG BEAUTIFUL WALL !!
That Crony virus will be dead in its tracks, thanks to your PERFECT PHONE CALLING pRESIDENT ! JINA !

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0rganism

(23,977 posts)

15. toothpaste! get back in that tube!

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Original post)

Tue Jan 28, 2020, 09:03 PM

Jan 2020

how about flights from all the countries that didn't suspend traffic with China, and so on

fighting an epidemic in an era of global travel is not going to be easy. you'd need really competent people throughout all relevant bureaucracies to get it done, and Trump has made damn sure that's not the case anymore.