Lecturer stranded in China

[elanfan]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-51249369

Whilst I sympathise with this lady’s plight I can’t help think - how fecking selfish. The latest on this virus is that it is contagious even during the incubation period. So bring her home, she infects her rescuers and spreads it to this country. What the absolute fk!

[poo at Paul's]

elanfan said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-51249369

Whilst I sympathise with this lady’s plight I can’t help think - how fecking selfish. The latest on this virus is that it is contagious even during the incubation period. So bring her home, she infects her rescuers and spreads it to this country. What the absolute fk!

How long has this virus been about in Wuhan? They've been there 3 weeks.....why not get out a fortnight ago?

[anonymous-user]

There is a case to be made for UK to send an RAF transport with quarantined quarters to collect these people then stick them in isolation in a hanger at Brize Norton for two weeks.

[Alucidnation]

elanfan said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-51249369

Whilst I sympathise with this lady’s plight I can’t help think - how fecking selfish. The latest on this virus is that it is contagious even during the incubation period. So bring her home, she infects her rescuers and spreads it to this country. What the absolute fk!

What if it was someone close to you?

[amusingduck]

Alucidnation said:

elanfan said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-51249369

Whilst I sympathise with this lady’s plight I can’t help think - how fecking selfish. The latest on this virus is that it is contagious even during the incubation period. So bring her home, she infects her rescuers and spreads it to this country. What the absolute fk!

What if it was someone close to you?

Then he'd be far less objective, and should be kept even further away from the decisions

[KrazyIvan]

amusingduck said:

Alucidnation said:

elanfan said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-51249369

Whilst I sympathise with this lady’s plight I can’t help think - how fecking selfish. The latest on this virus is that it is contagious even during the incubation period. So bring her home, she infects her rescuers and spreads it to this country. What the absolute fk!

What if it was someone close to you?

Then he'd be far less objective, and should be kept even further away from the decisions

Surely bringing her back with the associated risks, would be a far less objective thing to do rather than arrange for her to be quarantined in China, until the outbreak is under control, and then look to bring her back.

[zygalski]

jsf said:

There is a case to be made for UK to send an RAF transport with quarantined quarters to collect these people then stick them in isolation in a hanger at Brize Norton for two weeks.

Can they not just run a blood test whilst in isolation? If so, people could potentially be in & out of quarantine within a few days.

[Neonblau]

jsf said:

There is a case to be made for UK to send an RAF transport with quarantined quarters to collect these people then stick them in isolation in a hanger at Brize Norton for two weeks.

I'm sure the Chinese would have no problem allowing a foreign military aircraft to fly into the heartland and land in an infected city sealed off from the rest of the country.

[matthias73]

Where the fk has common sense gone.

She's not vital to the UK. leave her there.

[oobie38]

matthias73 said:

Where the fk has common sense gone.

She's not vital to the UK. leave her there.

Other coutries are feeling that it's appropriate to repatriate (and presumably isolate) their non-vital citizens.
I don't think, considering what we know about transmission of the infection, that flying them back home is taking leave of common sense. Nobody is suggesting that they wouldn't be quarantined.

[Agammemnon]

jsf said:

There is a case to be made for UK to send an RAF transport with quarantined quarters to collect these people then stick them in isolation in a hanger at Brize Norton for two weeks.

Who pays for it & why?

[andymadmak]

She's been there 3 weeks. She could have got out earlier, but chose not to.
She's in a nice hotel (if the pictures are anything to go by) and it would appear (according to the article) that the Chinese hotel workers are taking good care of her.
It's unfortunate, but why can't she sit it out? It's not like she's on the streets or in a punishment block.
If the Government can agree with the Chinese authorities to get all similarly affected people to a single location for a pick up by the RAF, then fair enough, but I fancy that the Chinese have other things on their minds right now.
The pleas that foreigners should somehow be exempt from the travel ban suggest that there are still folk who think that being foreign somehow puts you above the rules in certain parts of the world

[Sophisticated Sarah]

andymadmak said:

The pleas that foreigners should somehow be exempt from the travel ban suggest that there are still folk who think that being foreign somehow puts you above the rules in certain parts of the world

Sadly it’s a common attitude, oddly (in my experience) more prevalent in the world of academia.

[Sheepshanks]

There's a bloke on our local news who is teaching out there - his 81yr old grandmother, who has COPD, was visiting him, and is now stuck. https://www.lancs.live/news/lancashire-news/lancas...

[Earthdweller]

It might be considered heartless by some but my view is that either there IS quarantine and a travel ban or there isn’t and the nationality of those quarantined or banned from travelling is irrelevant

[Alucidnation]

Not saying I don't agree, it was more the OP's attitude.

[Sophisticated Sarah]

Earthdweller said:

It might be considered heartless by some but my view is that either there IS quarantine and a travel ban or there isn’t and the nationality of those quarantined or banned from travelling is irrelevant

Ebola nurse shows how cautious we need to be

[Murph7355]

Sophisticated Sarah said:

andymadmak said:

The pleas that foreigners should somehow be exempt from the travel ban suggest that there are still folk who think that being foreign somehow puts you above the rules in certain parts of the world

Sadly it’s a common attitude, oddly (in my experience) more prevalent in the world of academia.

I agree. But I don't think thoughts of being "foreign" come into it. It's simply "everyone else but me".

Another "racism"/"xenophobic" angle that's just not there. Selfishness transcends such concepts and it is that which is rife all over the place (not just here).

[Teddy Lop]

jsf said:

There is a case to be made for UK to send an RAF transport with quarantined quarters to collect these people then stick them in isolation in a hanger at Brize Norton for two weeks.

sort of like have a few close-to patient zeros for when the mutant strain reaches us?

[Murph7355]

jsf said:

There is a case to be made for UK to send an RAF transport with quarantined quarters to collect these people then stick them in isolation in a hanger at Brize Norton for two weeks.

Is there?

Will their travel insurance cover that....?