You Had One Job
January 27, 2020·0 comments·the zeitgeist
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What made me so angry? This.
U.S. Sets Evacuation Plan From Coronavirus-Infected Wuhan [Wall Street Journal]
The U.S. State Department said Sunday that it is organizing a single flight out of the central Chinese city of Wuhan, confirming efforts to extricate diplomats and a limited number of private U.S. citizens from the virus-hit city.
Private citizens are expected to later repay the travel costs, the notice said.
U.S. authorities believe that roughly 1,000 American citizens live in and around Wuhan, a sprawl of 11 million people with a manufacturing-based economy that includes a number of major American companies.
The U.S. evacuation flight from Wuhan’s Tianhe International Airport was initially planned for Sunday, but issues related to chartering the plane from the U.S. caused a delay.
The jetliner is expected to be a Boeing 767 with about 230 seats.
The flight is expected to carry mostly Americans and possibly a small number of other foreign nationals but no Chinese citizens.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Sunday that Japan would evacuate from Wuhan any of its citizens who want to leave, using charter flights and other means to get them back to Japan as quickly as possible. Public broadcaster NHK said about 700 Japanese citizens were thought to be in Wuhan as of Friday.
According to an evacuee manifest and promissory note posted to its website, the State Department asks any participants in a government-arranged evacuation to provide basic identification information and to sign an agreement promising to repay the State Department for all expenses included in the evacuation within 30 days.
That includes the cost of an air ticket, whose price shouldn’t exceed the cost of a full-fare economy ticket.
Japan is getting ALL of its people out of Wuhan. Why aren't we?
Why the hell are we evacuating "a small number of other foreign nationals" and leaving Americans behind?
Why does this article feel compelled to tell us TWICE about the payback terms on the price of evacuation?
We spend TRILLIONS of dollars fighting god-forsaken wars in god-forsaken countries, and we have "issues" chartering ONE Boeing plane?
JFC.
Rhode Island residents Patrick Randy Stockstill, his wife and two children had traveled to Yichang, a city of about four million near the Three Gorges Dam in Hubei province and 200 miles west of Wuhan, to celebrate Lunar New Year with the extended family of Mr. Stockstill’s wife.
Mr. Stockstill, who had arrived in Yichang on Jan. 20 and was set to leave this coming Friday, said his family was very worried about his youngest son, who is 3 months old. Public transportation in Yichang has been shut down since Friday.
“We’re not looking for special treatment,” said the 38-year-old loan officer, who hasn’t stepped outside for four days for fear of getting infected by the virus. “We are just looking for a way to get my boy home.”
Forget about impeachment and its partisan Kabuki theater. It's a joke.
If there's some rich dude who bought his way onto that Wuhan evacuation flight, and you know there is ... if there's a pecking order that leaves people like the Stockstills behind, and you know there is ... if this Administration is forsaking its ONE JOB to protect American citizens, and you know they are ...
THAT'S what brings down this government.
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