Not sure if you are saying just walking through these markets can give you some nasty zoonotic diseases, or people selling these meat with improper unsafe food handling combined with improper cooking at home is the problem. With proper safe food handling and proper cooking, even the infected meat can be consumed safely, according to WHO.
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Not sure if you are saying just walking through these markets can give you some nasty zoonotic diseases, or people selling these meat with improper unsafe food handling combined with improper cooking at home is the problem. With proper safe food handling and proper cooking, even the infected meat can be consumed safely, according to WHO.
That implies very high concentrations of infected people...
Education and proper business licensing is better than blanket ban.
Japan is going to explode and it will probably bring Taiwan down with it.
South Korea and China are both quarantining arrivals from Japan. But Taiwan depends too much on Japanese geopolitical support to impose any meaningful travel restriction.
The thing I am curious about is how come Japan hasn't exported many cases yet. Countries like Italy, South Korea, and Spain to a lesser degree have already exported cases around the world but we haven't heard much from Japan.
I don't think there are many cases exported by South Korea. Japan has more exported cases, including one to Taiwan.
I think we should all agree we shouldn't wish something like this upon anybody.
After all, we share the same planet and same resources and DNA and all.
Of course I understand people talk trash under emotion.
Hendrik_2000
Lieutenant General
That is all good except that they wasted 2 month bad mouthing China bordering on racism It is a case of seeing Rome is burning while Nero fiddling
Trump praises White House coronavirus response as U.S. cases surpass 500
U.S. President Donald Trump defended the "perfectly coordinated" U.S. response to the coronavirus epidemic Sunday amid heavy criticism over health cuts and strategic blunders that have failed to stem its rapid spread.
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the country has soared past 500 including two new deaths. The virus has reached 30 U.S. states, with Oregon the latest to declare a state of emergency on Sunday, and 60 million people in California and New York states under crisis measures.
Two more deaths were reported in Washington State – both linked to a virus-hit care home near Seattle – bringing the nationwide toll to at least 21.
Trump, who has been accused of peddling misinformation on the outbreak, blamed the media in a tweet for trying to make his government "look bad."
"We have a perfectly coordinated and fine-tuned plan at the White House for our attack on CoronaVirus," Trump tweeted.
"We moved VERY early to close borders to certain areas, which was a Godsend. V.P. is doing a great job. The Fake News Media is doing everything possible to make us look bad. Sad!"
But Larry Hogan, the Republican governor of Maryland, criticized Trump, telling NBC the president "hasn't communicated the way I would, and the way I might like him to."
New York governor Andrew Cuomo said federal health authorities had been "caught flat-footed" and had "handcuffed" the ability of individual states to respond.
"Their messages are all over the place, frankly," he told Fox News.
Trump has been heavily rebuked for repeatedly contradicting the advice of his administration's experts in his public pronouncements about the coronavirus.
Hendrik_2000
Lieutenant General
They just all but give up on containment now they say stepping into mitigation let see how it is proceed
In interviews across major television networks on Sunday, U.S. officials all-but-admitted that efforts to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, have failed and that the country now needs to move to mitigate the effects of the continuing spread of the disease on the nation’s health and econom
Mistakes were made
Faulty test kits and internal divisions over how to respond to the spread of the virus in the United States hamstrung early efforts to get an accurate picture of how rapidly the virus was moving through the population, according to multiple reports.
“They’ve simply lost time they can’t make up. You can’t get back six weeks of blindness,” Jeremy Konyndyk, a senior policy fellow at the Center for Global Development and an Obama-era administration staffer involved in the government’s response to the spread of the ebola virus, . “To the extent that there’s someone to blame here, the blame is on poor, chaotic management from the White House and failure to acknowledge the big picture.”
There is a world in which a coordinated U.S. response to the outbreak of the coronavirus, , would have been led by the global health security team within the National Security Council, but by the National Security Advisor at the time, John Bolton.
In that world, perhaps the U.S. could have ramped up the production and acquisition of testing kits, provisioned facilities in communities deemed to be more at-risk with the necessary equipment, and issued emergency authorizations to enable public institutions to administer tests without undergoing formal approval processes. In that world, the CDC would not have needed to impose severe restrictions on who could be tested for the virus, because they would not have needed to limit the number of tests they could conduct to only the most pressing — or obvious — cases.
Instead, as reporting in both The Washington Post and the indicates, a series of poor decisions, slow responses, and technological missteps limited the government’s ability to respond effectively to the threat.
The problems seem to have been threefold — the Centers for Disease Control did not move quickly enough to manufacture test kits at scale (either because of lack of funding or political will) nor did it open up testing options to other institutions that could have worked to develop tests — and because of the limited availability of tests, the CDC rationed how many tests were performed. Those issues were compounded by the initial release of faulty tests by the CDC in early February.
In interviews across major television networks on Sunday, U.S. officials all-but-admitted that efforts to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, have failed and that the country now needs to move to mitigate the effects of the continuing spread of the disease on the nation’s health and econom
Mistakes were made
Faulty test kits and internal divisions over how to respond to the spread of the virus in the United States hamstrung early efforts to get an accurate picture of how rapidly the virus was moving through the population, according to multiple reports.
“They’ve simply lost time they can’t make up. You can’t get back six weeks of blindness,” Jeremy Konyndyk, a senior policy fellow at the Center for Global Development and an Obama-era administration staffer involved in the government’s response to the spread of the ebola virus, . “To the extent that there’s someone to blame here, the blame is on poor, chaotic management from the White House and failure to acknowledge the big picture.”
There is a world in which a coordinated U.S. response to the outbreak of the coronavirus, , would have been led by the global health security team within the National Security Council, but by the National Security Advisor at the time, John Bolton.
In that world, perhaps the U.S. could have ramped up the production and acquisition of testing kits, provisioned facilities in communities deemed to be more at-risk with the necessary equipment, and issued emergency authorizations to enable public institutions to administer tests without undergoing formal approval processes. In that world, the CDC would not have needed to impose severe restrictions on who could be tested for the virus, because they would not have needed to limit the number of tests they could conduct to only the most pressing — or obvious — cases.
Instead, as reporting in both The Washington Post and the indicates, a series of poor decisions, slow responses, and technological missteps limited the government’s ability to respond effectively to the threat.
The problems seem to have been threefold — the Centers for Disease Control did not move quickly enough to manufacture test kits at scale (either because of lack of funding or political will) nor did it open up testing options to other institutions that could have worked to develop tests — and because of the limited availability of tests, the CDC rationed how many tests were performed. Those issues were compounded by the initial release of faulty tests by the CDC in early February.