In this Friday, Jan. 31, 2020, photo, American citizen James Dickey sits on a train on his way back to his home in Changsha, China. Dickey, a kindergarten teacher in the central city of Changsha, outside the locked-down area, said he was “really scared” and trying to arrange for his daughter and ex-wife to leave Wuhan for the United States. The State Department said Americans "should consider departing” as the death toll rose in an advisory Friday.
The State Department issued a travel advisory Friday saying Americans in China “should consider departing.” That followed the evacuation earlier this week of about 200 Americans from Wuhan, the locked-down city at the center of the outbreak. A second flight is planned next week. He planned to stay in China with his Chinese girlfriend. “If I leave, she’s going to be all alone in a city that’s not her hometown, so if I left her right now that would be a really terrible thing to do,” he said. “I couldn’t do that to her.”Iacampo. who has lived in China for two years, said she has no plans to leave and is more worried about the flu.
“I’m wearing masks out and about,” she said. “But generally speaking my daily life hasn’t had to change.”Wester, a businessman who has lived in China for 19 years, is staying in Beijing and “self-quarantining myself,” which feels safer than facing airports crowded with strangers. He and his wife are staying home with their 12-year-old daughter. Her school is closed but she is keeping busy writing blog entries for his company, including a series on meals that can be made with three basic ingredients.
“We haven’t been quarantining ourselves, but we are taking precautions like washing our hands and wearing masks,” said Layman, who has been a teacher in Beijing since mid-2018.“I’m trying to not spread or get into a state of panic,” said Raymond, 28. “But I don’
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No glasses? Haha. The mask is not for protection but against contaminating others. Is Superman aware of that?
For some people they may be safer where they are. Going thru an airport or getting on a plane may not necessarily be their safest option now. Safer to hunker down and have a duvet month or two
Some? Really?
Well make sure they are not already sick with a two week isolation in their own homes.
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