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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2020 14:23:15 GMT -5
Coronavirus screenings jam US airports By Gray News Staff | March 15, 2020 at 2:16 AM CDT - Updated March 15 at 12:22 PM (AP/Gray News) - The Department of Homeland Security is asking travelers to be patient at U.S. airports where travelers from Europe are being funneled during the coronavirus pandemic. Acting Secretary Chad Wolf tweeted Sunday that the government is working to add virus screening capacity and is working with airlines. He says screenings take about a minute per passenger. Huge lines and hourslong waits for the required medical screenings formed even as health officials called for “social distancing” to stem the spread of COVID-19. The U.S. government’s top infectious disease expert says that the crowds could spread the coronavirus but that they are likely to continue. Dr. Anthony Fauci, with the National Institutes of Health, said on ABC’s “This Week” that the idea of domestic travel restrictions have come up during administration deliberations but such action is unlikely “right now or in the immediate future.” Fauci’s comments come a day after President Donald Trump told reporters that he was considering imposing restrictions on travel within the U.S. to areas hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic. One traveler described the scene at the Dallas-Forth Worth airport as “atrocious." American citizens, green card holders and some others are allowed to return to the U.S. amid new European travel restrictions. www.fox8live.com/2020/03/15/returning-travelers-face-hourslong-lines-coronavirus-screening-chicago-airport/check out the mess in the videos |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2020 14:24:49 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2020 14:25:57 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2020 14:26:47 GMT -5
catastrophe waiting to happen
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Post by BHU on Mar 15, 2020 21:32:42 GMT -5
So much for "social distancing". If only a handful of those people are carriers, all hell will break loose.
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Post by clarencebunsen on Mar 15, 2020 23:06:24 GMT -5
Certainly not well done. Possibly do it one plane at a time. Of course if the process takes 1 min per person, it would take 2-3 hours to screen a large plane.
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Post by Clipper on Mar 16, 2020 11:28:16 GMT -5
I feel sorry for those people that are forced into such crowded situation. When a few of them test positive for the virus, there is going to be a massive number of people in need of notification and quarantine. There has finally been one confirmed case of the virus in our county. Our last meal out at a restaurant was Friday. We will not be going out anymore than necessary for the foreseeable future. Neither of us is in what one would call stellar health so we don't need to be exposed if we can possibly avoid it. We have made a common sense decision not to travel to NY for Kathy's brother's memorial services tomorrow. She has not felt well the last couple of days and I still am having the allergic itching problem. I talked with the NP at my cardiologists office this morning and she ordered a steroid dose pack for the itching and took me off of Lipitor because the combo of statins and Plavix can cause the itching reaction. She also told me that I should not postpone the appointment I have with the doctor on Wednesday, and shouldn't travel 700 miles away from home until he has seen me and deemed it safe. I have been chomping at the bit to get back to bowling, but the NP told me this morning that the location of the stent and the complications they ran into in getting it placed, lead the doctor to want me to restrict physical activity to no more than walking several times a day until he has evaluated me and I have started cardiac rehab. I guess I didn't realize how bad the blockage had been and how complicated the procedure became. I never do anything the easy way, haha.  |
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Post by Ralph on Mar 16, 2020 20:07:01 GMT -5
For once in my recent life, I am glad to not be a part of that traveling rat pack.
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Post by BHU on Mar 17, 2020 17:06:42 GMT -5
I wonder if Cuomo will open state parks this summer. Don't look like there will be too much traveling this summer, so they'll be a lot of people camping, taking day trips & hitting the beaches.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2020 19:04:53 GMT -5
I wonder if Cuomo will open state parks this summer. Don't look like there will be too much traveling this summer, so they'll be a lot of people camping, taking day trips & hitting the beaches. If this virus is not contained and a vaccine available for mass production and inoculation this summer people will not be able to do anything but hunker down in fear of catching this disease from the bowels of China. This is a China virus that I bet was meant by them to scare the world. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2020 19:06:56 GMT -5
I got a chance to travel this early summer to Chicago to visit some classmates. If tickets keep dropping I will. Last time I was in Chicago was for a week way back in 1972. Wish me luck.
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Post by clarencebunsen on Mar 18, 2020 1:32:03 GMT -5
Good luck. Chicago is a great place to visit. The downtown area can be a scary place after dark.
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Post by Clipper on Mar 18, 2020 9:04:36 GMT -5
Good luck. Chicago is a great place to visit. The downtown area can be a scary place after dark. You are correct CB. Chicago is a great place to visit, but has become more than a bit sketchy after dark. My niece and her boyfriend are both young professionals, working and living in downtown Chicago. They have a beautiful apartment in a hi-rise building overlooking Lake Michigan, with a doorman and security in the lobby. If they go out at night they use a car service and wait in the lobby until the car arrives. They both have cars, but as is the case many times in NYC, they seldom use them. I once had a scary experience in Chicago. I was making a delivery to a company that was closed for the night. The watchmen let me into the yard, and I backed up to dock and went to bed. I was awakened by two men, one on each side of the truck banging on the window in an effort to rob me. One had a knife. Thankfully it was a tall cab over tractor that required them to stand on a small step 4 or 5 feet above the ground and hold on to a grab rail with one hand. In a panic I jumped into the drivers seat in my undershorts, accelerated quickly and both fell off the truck. I drove THROUGH a chain link gate, drove to a truck top that was a couple of miles away, still in my underwear, and called the police. The company paid for the gate with insurance and there was only minor damage to the front of the truck. I always suspected that the watchman was in cahoots with the two robbers. Welcome to SE Chicago after dark.  |
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Post by BHU on Mar 18, 2020 13:28:30 GMT -5
Good luck. Chicago is a great place to visit. The downtown area can be a scary place after dark. You are correct CB. Chicago is a great place to visit, but has become more than a bit sketchy after dark. My niece and her boyfriend are both young professionals, working and living in downtown Chicago. They have a beautiful apartment in a hi-rise building overlooking Lake Michigan, with a doorman and security in the lobby. If they go out at night they use a car service and wait in the lobby until the car arrives. They both have cars, but as is the case many times in NYC, they seldom use them. I once had a scary experience in Chicago. I was making a delivery to a company that was closed for the night. The watchmen let me into the yard, and I backed up to dock and went to bed. I was awakened by two men, one on each side of the truck banging on the window in an effort to rob me. One had a knife. Thankfully it was a tall cab over tractor that required them to stand on a small step 4 or 5 feet above the ground and hold on to a grab rail with one hand. In a panic I jumped into the drivers seat in my undershorts, accelerated quickly and both fell off the truck. I drove THROUGH a chain link gate, drove to a truck top that was a couple of miles away, still in my underwear, and called the police. The company paid for the gate with insurance and there was only minor damage to the front of the truck. I always suspected that the watchman was in cahoots with the two robbers. Welcome to SE Chicago after dark. We drove through Chicago a few years ago on our way to Wisconsin to visit relatives. We were on the main interstate, all tore up from construction going on headed north when the car overheated. So there we were, middle of summer on the shoulder waiting for the engine to cool off so we could get out of there, traffic buzzing by at 70 m.p.h. But nobody bothered us as it was in the afternoon. We ended up finally getting out of there once it cooled down. Got out of Chicago, puled off the interstate, & found a part store where I had to replace the radiator fan in the parking lot in 85 degree heat. I shudder to think what could have happened if it was dark. |
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Post by Clipper on Mar 18, 2020 16:47:46 GMT -5
If they didn't mug or rob you on YOUR WAY to the parts store they probably would have held you up on the way back and stole the new fan, haha. The only two places I found more ominous and dangerous are Detroit and East St Louis Illinois. I stopped at a truck stop just South of Detroit one night and they had so many people being robbed in the parking lot that you were advised to call on the CB radio and they had a golf cart shuttle pick you up at your truck and deliver you to the door of the restaurant. As for East St Louis, I made a wrong turn off I-64 and ended up on the Martin Luther King bridge which dumped me into East St Louis. A cop pulled me over and told me it was not safe for us to be in that area at night and when we told him we were lost he escorted us back to the interstate. If you look up ghetto in the dictionary, there would be a picture of East St Louis Illinois. In today's world I really don't care to be on ANY inner city's streets at night. With all the gang activity and drugs I would want to stay on a well lighted, busy street and not wander up any side streets. The last time I visited Ralph at his house I was intimidated by 4 or 5 black men walking in the street near Elm St and Eagle St. that mocked me and would not move over to let me pass. If I visit Ralph at home again, it will be with the sun shining bright and while the night predators and scum are still sleeping. |
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