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O’Hare is a COVID-19 incubator right now [W:454]

Thread starter Threegoofs
Start date Mar 14, 2020

Threegoofs

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Mar 14, 2020

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As we speak, the administrations travel ban on Europe has made thousands of Americans come home with little notice.

They are being screened for COVID, presumably with interviews and temperature testing.

But to get thru the screening, these people from these (supposedly) horrible, highly infested countries are being CRAMMED into the international terminal and made to stand in line for 4-6 hours to get screened.

It’s like an incubator for COVID!!!

Pass it to your closest 20 friends in line, and then get told to self quarantine for 14 days.

Here is Terminal 5 right now:

Great planning, Stephen and Jared.

justabubba

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Mar 14, 2020

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Re: O’Hare is a COVID-19 incubator right now

Threegoofs said:
As we speak, the administrations travel ban on Europe has made thousands of Americans come home with little notice.

They are being screened for COVID, presumably with interviews and temperature testing.

But to get thru the screening, these people from these (supposedly) horrible, highly infested countries are being CRAMMED into the international terminal and made to stand in line for 4-6 hours to get screened.

It’s like an incubator for COVID!!!

Pass it to your closest 20 friends in line, and then get told to self quarantine for 14 days.

Here is Terminal 5 right now:

Great planning, Stephen and Jared.

nobel-worthy

Captain Adverse

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Mar 14, 2020

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Re: O’Hare is a COVID-19 incubator right now

Threegoofs said:
As we speak, the administrations travel ban on Europe has made thousands of Americans come home with little notice.

They are being screened for COVID, presumably with interviews and temperature testing.

But to get thru the screening, these people from these (supposedly) horrible, highly infested countries are being CRAMMED into the international terminal and made to stand in line for 4-6 hours to get screened.

It’s like an incubator for COVID!!!

Pass it to your closest 20 friends in line, and then get told to self quarantine for 14 days.

Here is Terminal 5 right now:

Great planning, Stephen and Jared.

Your solution?

Threegoofs

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Captain Adverse said:
Your solution?

Have a competent administration next time, because with these guys we are ****ed.

DiAnna

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Mar 14, 2020

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Captain Adverse said:
Your solution?

My solution would have begun in January, and start by ordering as many COVID-19 test kits as the WHO could send us... then using the damned things on each pocket of exposure so we had an accurate record of how many actual cases of COVID-19 positive cases we had, and how many pneumatic deaths during that time were from the coronavirus, and not included in the current totals.

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Barnacle

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Mar 14, 2020

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Threegoofs said:
Have a competent administration next time, because with these guys we are ****ed.

I think the testing started only tonight. Airport authority should have been more prepared.

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Mar 14, 2020

#7

Re: O’Hare is a COVID-19 incubator right now

****, i feel sorry for people traveling right now.

Hari Seldon

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Mar 14, 2020

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Barnacle said:
I think the testing started only tonight. Airport authority should have been more prepared.

I'm sure they were blind sided like everyone else. What a leader we have.

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Mar 15, 2020

#9

Re: O’Hare is a COVID-19 incubator right now

Threegoofs said:
As we speak, the administrations travel ban on Europe has made thousands of Americans come home with little notice.

They are being screened for COVID, presumably with interviews and temperature testing.

But to get thru the screening, these people from these (supposedly) horrible, highly infested countries are being CRAMMED into the international terminal and made to stand in line for 4-6 hours to get screened.

It’s like an incubator for COVID!!!

Pass it to your closest 20 friends in line, and then get told to self quarantine for 14 days.

Here is Terminal 5 right now:

Great planning, Stephen and Jared.

More Trumpian incompetence, to say the least.

Cardinal

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Mar 15, 2020

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Re: O’Hare is a COVID-19 incubator right now

Threegoofs said:
As we speak, the administrations travel ban on Europe has made thousands of Americans come home with little notice.

They are being screened for COVID, presumably with interviews and temperature testing.

But to get thru the screening, these people from these (supposedly) horrible, highly infested countries are being CRAMMED into the international terminal and made to stand in line for 4-6 hours to get screened.

It’s like an incubator for COVID!!!

Pass it to your closest 20 friends in line, and then get told to self quarantine for 14 days.

Here is Terminal 5 right now:

Great planning, Stephen and Jared.

Yikes. My wife got in and out of O'Hare just in time.

calamity

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Cardinal said:
Yikes. My wife got in and out of O'Hare just in time.

I have a global contingent from a major automotive manufacturer due to arrive for a first-off build event in Western Missouri late in April. I suspect that's about to be cancelled. At the end of March, we will have a small army of American suppliers converging on the site to begin setting things in motion. So far, that event is still on schedule. This week, we sent roughly a dozen of our people out there to install the equipment needed for those days.

Cancelling would make sense. But, delaying the launch of a vehicle has major repercussions for the economy. One fear we have is those plants laying off thousands of workers. However, I see that perhaps being the least of all evils right now.

Cardinal

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I would just like to make it clear that during Sars, Mers and Ebola, we didn't see a fraction of the chaos under Obama and Bush that we're seeing now. Those outbreaks didn't cause the stock market to whipsaw up and down by thousands of points in a single day, there was no toilet paper and hand sanitizer hoarding, supermarkets weren't being emptied out, and we didn't come to inherently distrust the CDC.

Trump didn't create the virus, but the chaos is 100% his.

JasperL

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Mar 15, 2020

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Barnacle said:
I think the testing started only tonight. Airport authority should have been more prepared.

LOL.

Trump: "No, I don't take responsibility at all."

Threegoofs

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Mar 15, 2020

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Re: O’Hare is a COVID-19 incubator right now

Barnacle said:
I think the testing started only tonight. Airport authority should have been more prepared.

You mean TSA.

The federal government.

The ones who thought up the plan.

The ones that announced it Wed night (WITHOUT INFORMING EUROPEAN LEADERS!).

The ones who couldn’t even announce it properly in a prepared speech.

I agree.

Threegoofs

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Cardinal said:
Yikes. My wife got in and out of O'Hare just in time.

That’s Terminal 5 - international arrivals. It’s a distance from the main airport.

Cardinal

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Mar 15, 2020

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Threegoofs said:
That’s Terminal 5 - international arrivals. It’s a distance from the main airport.

Ah, right. Still, that's a horribly stressful thing for travelers to have to deal with. I ****ing hate re-entering the country. Whenever I see that JFK is where I'll be coming in, I want to put a bullet in my head, and that's without a panic-inducing vial outbreak to contend with.

Threegoofs

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Mar 15, 2020

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Here’s O’Hare from a different perspective.

The opposite of ‘social distancing’.

Did NO ONE think of the consequences and manpower needs in this administration when they thought this was a good idea?

Seriously. This is literally the exact thing one would do if they wanted to accelerate viral spread.

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Integrityrespec

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Mar 15, 2020

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Cardinal said:
I would just like to make it clear that during Sars, Mers and Ebola, we didn't see a fraction of the chaos under Obama and Bush that we're seeing now. Those outbreaks didn't cause the stock market to whipsaw up and down by thousands of points in a single day, there was no toilet paper and hand sanitizer hoarding, supermarkets weren't being emptied out, and we didn't come to inherently distrust the CDC.

Trump didn't create the virus, but the chaos is 100% his.

YOu also didn't see Pelosi, Schumer and Schiff doing daily presser's to criticize every step of the way either. I'm also pretty sure the Obama response time was not very good. What were those numbers?

Chomsky

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Mar 15, 2020

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Captain Adverse said:
Your solution?

Don't disband the goddamn pandemic research team, next time! :doh

We're totally fugged. You realize we're past containment, right? It's too late, the testing that could allow containment was a gross failure. There's only one hope, now that we're past containment - social isolation. Just like Europe. Just like china. Otherwise, we overload the healthcare system and the fatality rate skyrockets. Mark my words, next week will very likely be the last half-way normal week in America for a long time. It's not going to get better until we isolate. It's to late to test to contain. There's no other choice.

Threegoofs

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Mar 15, 2020

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Re: O’Hare is a COVID-19 incubator right now

Ok. Our Governor has addressed the issue.

I’m likin’ JBs style!!

vesper

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Mar 15, 2020

#21

Re: O’Hare is a COVID-19 incubator right now

Threegoofs said:
As we speak, the administrations travel ban on Europe has made thousands of Americans come home with little notice.

They are being screened for COVID, presumably with interviews and temperature testing.

But to get thru the screening, these people from these (supposedly) horrible, highly infested countries are being CRAMMED into the international terminal and made to stand in line for 4-6 hours to get screened.

It’s like an incubator for COVID!!!

Pass it to your closest 20 friends in line, and then get told to self quarantine for 14 days.

Here is Terminal 5 right now:

Great planning, Stephen and Jared.

Doesn't look much different than just about every grocery store across this country this weekend. The difference is these people will eventually return and be told to quarantine. Those masses at the grocery stores this weekend will not be quarantined.

Chomsky

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Mar 15, 2020

#22

Re: O’Hare is a COVID-19 incubator right now

Threegoofs said:
As we speak, the administrations travel ban on Europe has made thousands of Americans come home with little notice.

They are being screened for COVID, presumably with interviews and temperature testing.

But to get thru the screening, these people from these (supposedly) horrible, highly infested countries are being CRAMMED into the international terminal and made to stand in line for 4-6 hours to get screened.

It’s like an incubator for COVID!!!

Pass it to your closest 20 friends in line, and then get told to self quarantine for 14 days.

Here is Terminal 5 right now:

Great planning, Stephen and Jared.

My advice: Do not go by the airport, nearby hotels, restaurants, Casino, or the Mall. Bye, bye, Rosemont!

And don't even think of a Lyft or Uber ...

Cardinal

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Mar 15, 2020

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Integrityrespec said:
YOu also didn't see Pelosi, Schumer and Schiff doing daily presser's to criticize every step of the way either. I'm also pretty sure the Obama response time was not very good. What were those numbers?

You obviously saw "Obama" and stopped reading.

Threegoofs

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Mar 15, 2020

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Chomsky said:
. Mark my words, next week will very likely be the last half-way normal week in America for a long time.

I really don’t think it’s sunk in for most people.

Chomsky

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Mar 15, 2020

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DiAnna said:
My solution would have begun in January, and start by ordering as many COVID-19 test kits as the WHO could send us... then using the damned things on each pocket of exposure so we had an accurate record of how many actual cases of COVID-19 positive cases we had, and how many pneumatic deaths during that time were from the coronavirus, and not included in the current totals.

Which I believe would have fallen under the purview of the disbanded Pandemic Response Team ...

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