Comments by "SK ONTHEROAD" (@skontheroad2666) on "Sharp rise in coronavirus cases alarms world health officials" video.

@hugheaston7598 They can absolutely suspend "non essential travel" while at the same time allowing charters in with aid supply. It is done all the time with middle eastern countries. Just look at travel.state.gov, or your countries equivalent. Even during wars, the Red Cross is allowed in. They are hesitant to close borders, and should be. It is not about greed. It is about the global economy collapsing. And anyone with a job should absolutely worry about that. Again, regardless what country one is from. The people trolling about greed and countries worrying about money first will see it very differently when they can't even get their new iPhone, let alone everything else that is manufactured in China that we use on a daily basis and can't live without....
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@hugheaston7598 I absolutely think they should restrict travel! They should have done that over a week ago. At least non-essential travel. That is literally the only way to even try to get a handle on this. And the morons who don't want to miss out on their non-refundable cruise should just stay home, and eat the couple 1,000 dollars. It is just not worth it. Nonetheless the flip side is what it will do to the global economy. We already have China way behind as they were not allowed to go to work and produce things people count on daily (whether they really need them or not). And that is just the manufacturing side. And for those who don't actually have to make sure the teleconferencing happens, and think that everyone can just meet from their homes with video conferencing and have the same work product outcome doesn't know what actually goes on behind the scenes. The MWC canceled and a multi billion dollar house of cards fell. From Ericsson and Nokia pulling out, which affected not only their marketing efforts and what that does to the global world markets down to the cleaning staff from within the company, to the entire hospitality industry that counts on them each year, but most importantly, down to the restaurant owners and even coffee stands that support the event and make almost half of their annual income from the one week. And, while none of us have a crystal ball, there are still plenty of us who have to plan--and guess--on how this will play out. And for many, simply saying "just shut it all down" doesn't work, due to the ripple effect it has on everyone involved. But when they do shut it down, we need a plan B to keep the globe turning. Not an easy thing to come up with when we have never been in this situation before. And most people are just sitting and waiting and hoping for the best... not a great plan.
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@hugheaston7598 Also bear in mind that all businesses that ground their workers base it on the state dept website, who gets their cue from the CDC (and vice versa), which affects whether a company's travel insurance coverage of the employee would be in effect or not. That is always their bottom line. It is the people going on non-refundable cruises or vacations that you really have to worry about. Which is ironic because they are always the first ones to say that businesses are being greedy... yet they don't want to lose a couple thousand dollars to insure their own safety. And then get mad when they are stuck somewhere in quarantine....
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But they now know that it may then cause reexposure and recontamination. Self quarantine is one thing. Government imposed quarantines can't be an arbitrary number of days.
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@hugheaston7598 Despite tremendous criticism and pressure not to, Israel is now officially the first country to stop all International travel. And for them, it may actually work, since they can't drive over the border and hop on a flight. (However, I now have a kid stuck over there who can't come home or meet us somewhere for the holidays. Nor can we go to him. Unless things change... but hopefully he will atleast stay healthy. I hope!). Let's see what happens... BTW, I am sure you have seen Contagion, but it is worth watching again. Takes on a whole new meaning.
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@hugheaston7598 True, and when the airlines stop global travel (which has never been done), the ripple effect will be devastating on the world economy. I personally use my State Department warning system as a guide, as I travel a lot for work. But I also live in a city where there are hundreds of people flying in from Asia daily, even though 3 main carriers stopped flying in (and one doesn't even service Asia, except thru their partner airline system, so they didn't really get hit. Just PR). The WHO seems behind the 8 ball for some reason, so I am not countingon them. Yet I trust the CDC, having unfortunately had to deal with them directly. They follow up and follow thru and seen to really care from patient 0 on, for their own research purposes, so unless things have changed (which may be), I would sooner take their advice. Problem is, again, it is just for the US. Luckily however, most other "state dept" health and travel sites take their cue from the US.
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@hugheaston7598 In a perfect world, yes, absolutely (although we have seen Contagion). But we don't live in a perfect world... and you don't mean just planes, you mean martial law. And and no travel whatsoever. Do you really think that will happen? I can guarantee that the CEO's of major corporations won't go for it. But I am more worried about the virus mutating before they even find a vaccination for this one. And in the meantime, before we get to the point of martial law being put into effect, some useful information dispersed to the public on local levels and better testing would be more practical. Then some affective actions to get control of how to assess those who do have to travel out of necessity.
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@paramiind4730 Yes! You got it! Who! The WHO--the World Health Org. Like the UN version of the CDC.
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Why is she not asking the tough questions? Or making him actually answer the questions she is posing to him, that we--and obviously she--wants the answers to? Just ticking through a list of questions without getting the real, hard, direct answers is NOT good journalism!
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