Why Is The
Government Turning 11 Military Bases Inside The US Into Quarantine Camps?
by Tyler Durden
Tue, 02/11/2020 -
12:45
If this
coronavirus outbreak is not a serious threat, then why is the U.S. government
preparing to quarantine victims all over America? As you will see below, 11 U.S. military
bases located close to major airports are being converted into “quarantine
centers” for potential patients. When I first learned about this, I was greatly
alarmed, because we have all seen what is going on in China right now. People
are literally being physically dragged out of their homes and are being
forcibly relocated to “mass quarantine camps” with hordes of other very sick
people. Sadly, many of them will never come out of those camps alive. If
this virus starts spreading like wildfire here in the United States, is it
possible that something similar could start happening here?
The vast majority
of the confirmed cases are still in China, but over the last couple of weeks
the number of cases in the rest of the world has escalated dramatically.
Back on January
20th there were only 4 confirmed cases outside of China and now there are 464.
At this point there are victims in at least 28 different countries, and that number is almost certain to keep
growing.
The reason why
the virus has already spread to so many nations is because it is highly
contagious. Scientists have discovered that it can be transmitted from person
to person very easily, it has an incubation period of up to 24 days, and it can survive on smooth
surfaces for up to 9 days.
If this
coronavirus starts spreading very rapidly in the western world it is going to
create a tremendous amount of panic. Many are still trying to compare this virus
to the common flu, but that is a huge mistake. China would never lock down
major cities for weeks on end for the flu.
Obviously
something really big is happening, and the U.S. government is preparing for a
worst case scenario. According to the Miami Herald, 11 military bases inside the United
States are currently in the process of being transformed into “quarantine
centers”…
Eleven
military bases near major airports in the United States are setting up
quarantine centers for possible coronavirus patients, the Department of Defense
said.
The Department of
Health and Human Services asked the Pentagon for quarantine space in case beds fill
up at other coronavirus centers around the country, according to a DOD
statement.
Is this an
indication that the threat that this virus poses to our country is far greater
than we are being told?
The Department of
Defense has released a statement about this new program, and in that statement
the 11 military bases were specifically identified…
- JB Pearl Harbor-Hickam, HI (HNL)
- Great Lakes Training Center Navy Base, IL (ORD)
- Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base, TX (DFW)
- March
ARB, CA (LAX)
- Travis
AFB, CA (SFO)
- Dobbins
ARB, GA (ATL)
- Fort
Hamilton, NY (JFK)
- Naval Base Kitsap, WA (SEA)
- Joint Base Anacostia, DC (IAD)
- Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, NJ (EWR)
- Fort Custer Training Center (DTW)
Hopefully not all
of those facilities will be needed, but things are certainly looking more grim
with each passing day.
For example, the
number of confirmed cases on a cruise ship anchored off the coast of
Japan nearly doubled on Monday. Of the total number of
people that have been infected, at least 24 of them are Americans…
There are at
least 24 Americans among the 135 people infected with the Wuhan
coronavirus aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship, according to information
from Princess Cruises and a CNN tally.
Japanese
authorities are still testing hundreds of passengers on board the ship, which
has been stuck at a harbor south of Japanese capital Tokyo for almost a week
now.
Once the
quarantine of that cruise ship is over, those Americans will certainly want to
return home.
Will they be
allowed to do so, or will they be required to go to one of these quarantine
centers first?
Elsewhere in the
country, people are being put in “self quarantine” until officials believe that
it is safe for them to resume their normal lives. According to local officials,
this is being done to “an unspecified number of people in
Bexar County” right now…
A
number of Texans have been put in ‘self quarantine’ in their homes in case they have the coronavirus
after recently returning from China.
Officials in the
city of San Antonio confirmed that an unspecified number of people in Bexar
County were being confined to their homes for 14 days.
Their quarantine
period began at 10am Sunday, News 4 San Antonio reported.
Hopefully they
know what they are doing, because if this virus gets out of control it could
potentially sweep across America like wildfire.
We have already
seen what has happened in China, and we definitely do not want that to happen
here.
The Chinese have
implemented extreme measures in a desperate attempt to slow the spread of the
virus, but so far the most effective thing that they have done to reduce the
numbers is to literally change the definition of a “confirmed case”. The
following comes from Zero Hedge…
As reported by
local media this morning, the Chinese National Health Commission quietly
changed its definition of Coronavirus “confirmed case” in the latest guideline
dated 7/2. As a result, going forward patients who tested positive for
the virus but have no symptoms will no longer be regarded as confirmed. As
Alex Lam observes, “this inevitably will lower the numbers.”
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Of course there
has been a tremendous amount of skepticism about the numbers that China has
been giving us from the very beginning, and so this latest move isn’t that
surprising.
But no matter how
much China tries to spin things, there is no hiding the fact that this is a
very serious outbreak, and it will almost certainly continue to intensify in
the weeks ahead.
At this point,
even the director-general of the World Health Organization is admitting
that “we may only be seeing the tip of
the iceberg”…
Tedros Adhanom
Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, warned that the
numbers may not tell the entire story.
“There’ve been
some concerning instances of … spread from people with no travel history to
China,” Tedros said. “The detection of a small number of cases may
indicate more widespread transmission in other countries. In short, we may only
be seeing the tip of the iceberg.”
As I discussed
yesterday, humanity is now facing a “perfect storm”, and what we have witnessed so far is just the beginning.
Personally, I am
still hoping that this outbreak will fade. I don’t know if this is the sort of
extremely deadly global pandemic that so many experts have been warning could
happen one day, but without a doubt it is definitely clear that a lot of people
are dying over in China.
Will the final
death toll from this outbreak eventually number in the thousands or the
millions?
I don’t know, but
all of us should definitely continue to monitor the latest developments on a
daily basis.
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