Comments by "Tx240" (@Texas240) on "Fox News"
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These guys were stuck on the ship when the cruise stopped and picked up someone who was infected.
The cruises aren't just everyone who gets on stays on and leaves at the same time. The ship may be on a 10 day cruise with 7 port stops and some people stay on the cruise for only part of it or enter at a port stop for part of the remainder.
This guy was in the wrong place at the wrong time. The cruise lines had really poor planning regarding background travel of passengers boarding.
After being stuck on the ship for part of a quarantine period anchored in Japan, the US government sent a plane to retrieve Americans who wanted off the ship (some stayed, oddly).
They were tested and if positive, they were segregated on the airplane. I have my doubts about the efficacy of this mixing of healthy and sick people on board an aircraft with closed ventilation, possibly why some people stayed on the ship (the same ship is in the news again, off California coast, for again having the crew and passengers come up sick on the subsequent cruise).
So, the reason thie first group were on the cruise was because nobody warned them or realized that there was risk. The reason they got on the plane is because it was sent to retrieve them.
Now, the 2nd group of passengers on the same cruise ship are just stupid, considering the stories of the two stranded covid19 cruises were well publicized.
The problem also with relying on testing is that, before symptoms show, "negative" really just means "not positive", which is different than what most people think of as "negative".
The test doesn't detect the VIRUS, it detects ANTIBODIES to the virus. So, a person won't test positive until their immune system begins attacking the virus. We have no idea how long that takes and it will vary from person to person.
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@perro626 - You are correct, on the face of it. However, inflation isn't as simple as you imply.
HUGE amounts of magical money (probably more than ever before) were thrown into the economy after 2008. Inflation remained very low, with fears of DEFLATION due to the fact that people weren't spending money (because they couldn't borrow any for bigger purchases and unemployment was rising).
The thing about the current situation and inflation is timing. Why is inflation happening now if it wasn't happening earlier in the decade since the financial crisis of 2008, when all that money was being pulled out of thin air?
It's a great time to use the supply chain problems and demand for items (demand side inflation) as cover for increasing costs (supply side inflation) that are actually being used to cushion businesses from the upcoming increases in worker pay (which hasn't actually occurred yet in many places).
Essentially, companies are preemptively raising prices to account for the predicted increase in worker costs. Doing this before those costs actually hit allows the consumer to adjust to a new normal before prices again rise when wages go up.
Your argument that more money is going into the economy (in the form of increased pay) hasn't actually happened yet in many places. So, why inflation now?
In fact, if you really want to get interesting, the government is trying to curtail the quantitative easing that it's still doing, meaning LESS money will be flowing into the economy at the federal reserve level for inter bank lending.
So, again why inflation now?
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@Rivenburg-xd5yf - some people had been flown to Lackland AFB in San Antonio because of the airbase's medical and housing facilities that could be used for quarantine.
Quarantine is supposed to be 2 weeks. They let a person out because they "felt fine". The next day, after the person had visited a food court at a nearby mall, the person returned to quarantine with symptoms.
Now, this person actually tested negative, but all negative really means is "not positive", the body hasn't started making antibodies against the virus yet.
These tests look for antibodies, not the virus itself. So, untrained personal combined with an "I feel fine" got that sick person out of quarantine.
The mall ended up closed for a day for sanitization.
People are really showing how selfish we are, just like during Ebola when a lady who didn't want to stay on home quarantine simply went about her routine after returning from Africa. The government is showing how woefully unprepared they are to act quickly and sensibly to prevent spread of a pandemic.
If covid19, which is proving highly transmissisible had Ebola or Spanish Flu like violence and fatality, we'd all be fkd.
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@federalfreemoneylackofrese9937 - 85,000 cases, 2800 deaths. Mortality rate of 0.33% compared to flu mortality rate of 0.05% to 0.1%.
Technically, Coronavirus is LESS fatal than the standard, kills thousands every year flu.
Also, keep in mind that many deaths from Coronavirus are from people not taking proper steps initially to recover: hydrate, rest, manage fever.
The issue is that Coronavirus appears to spread faster than standard flu, or at least be more likely to actually cause symptoms in people.
Often, we are exposed to and, therefore infected with, illnesses but don't notice because our body fights it off and we barely notice.
As many as 20% of the US population gets the flu every year. As few as 3% develop symptoms (become "sick").
Don't touch your mouth, nose, or eyes. Use hand sanitizer after interacting with people or public objects. Wash your hands before you eat..
If you get sick, stay home, rest, drink fluids do your body can do its healing.
I can't stand our obsession with having sick people show up for work.
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