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Coronavirus Is About To Explode In Mexico, It's Time to Secure The Border
Posted on 4/3/20 at 6:42 am
Posted on 4/3/20 at 6:42 am
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"... The Central de Abasto, Mexico City’s main wholesale food market, has remained busy and crowded this week. Some merchants have even taken to posting on social media that the coronavirus doesn’t exist, that it’s a “trick of the government with other countries to get into debt.”
You can hardly blame them for thinking so. For weeks now President López Obrador has more or less done the same, denying the threat of the virus and at one point telling a crowd that the disease is “not going to do anything to us.”
Yet the raw numbers of supplies on hand suggest an impending humanitarian catastrophe. Mexico, with a population of 130 million, has only 356 ICU units, fewer than 50,000 hospital beds, fewer than 2,500 ICU beds, and just 5,523 ventilators. That’s for the entire country. (For context, New York City alone has about 6,000 ventilators and more than 2,000 ICU beds.)
Mexico’s unpreparedness, combined with woefully incomplete data about the extent of confirmed cases across the country, present real dangers to the United States, especially to communities along the southwest border.
Although the Trump administration imposed a partial closure of the border on March 17, shutting down all “nonessential” travel, the nearly 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border is inherently porous, with a constant flow of licit and illicit goods going back and forth over the Rio Grande every day.
It’s true that travel restrictions have quieted once-bustling border crossings in Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez, and the streets of Laredo, Texas, where on average 10,000 people cross the pedestrian bridge daily to shop and attend school, are deserted. But cross-border traffic continues apace, from commercial truck drivers and farm workers on agricultural visas to powerful drug cartels trafficking narcotics. (Last week in Laredo, Texas, U.S. border officials seized a single shipment of meth worth $37 million.)
In addition, the illegal flow of migrants across the border hasn’t stopped altogether because of the pandemic. Last month, more than 30,000 people were apprehended by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, including 3,600 single adults...
...Cross-border air travel also continues apace. Mexico is the top destination for American tourists, and as of this writing commercial flights to and from the United States and Mexico were still running."
When this takes off there you could see the entire population of that country decide two start heading north.
Militarize the southern border. Shut it all down.
"... The Central de Abasto, Mexico City’s main wholesale food market, has remained busy and crowded this week. Some merchants have even taken to posting on social media that the coronavirus doesn’t exist, that it’s a “trick of the government with other countries to get into debt.”
You can hardly blame them for thinking so. For weeks now President López Obrador has more or less done the same, denying the threat of the virus and at one point telling a crowd that the disease is “not going to do anything to us.”
Yet the raw numbers of supplies on hand suggest an impending humanitarian catastrophe. Mexico, with a population of 130 million, has only 356 ICU units, fewer than 50,000 hospital beds, fewer than 2,500 ICU beds, and just 5,523 ventilators. That’s for the entire country. (For context, New York City alone has about 6,000 ventilators and more than 2,000 ICU beds.)
Mexico’s unpreparedness, combined with woefully incomplete data about the extent of confirmed cases across the country, present real dangers to the United States, especially to communities along the southwest border.
Although the Trump administration imposed a partial closure of the border on March 17, shutting down all “nonessential” travel, the nearly 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border is inherently porous, with a constant flow of licit and illicit goods going back and forth over the Rio Grande every day.
It’s true that travel restrictions have quieted once-bustling border crossings in Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez, and the streets of Laredo, Texas, where on average 10,000 people cross the pedestrian bridge daily to shop and attend school, are deserted. But cross-border traffic continues apace, from commercial truck drivers and farm workers on agricultural visas to powerful drug cartels trafficking narcotics. (Last week in Laredo, Texas, U.S. border officials seized a single shipment of meth worth $37 million.)
In addition, the illegal flow of migrants across the border hasn’t stopped altogether because of the pandemic. Last month, more than 30,000 people were apprehended by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, including 3,600 single adults...
...Cross-border air travel also continues apace. Mexico is the top destination for American tourists, and as of this writing commercial flights to and from the United States and Mexico were still running."
When this takes off there you could see the entire population of that country decide two start heading north.
Militarize the southern border. Shut it all down.
Posted on 4/3/20 at 6:48 am to Boatshoes
I’m surprised it hasn’t already, especially in places like Mexico City
Posted on 4/3/20 at 6:49 am to Boatshoes
This shite won’t kill as many Mexicans as the cartels. Facts!
Posted on 4/3/20 at 6:51 am to Boatshoes
It’s all good. They have universal health care so nothing to worry about.
Posted on 4/3/20 at 6:54 am to TigahTeeth
Im sure its there in numbers, just not testing.
Same with Africa, chinese been crawling all over that country and very few cases, not likely.
Same with Africa, chinese been crawling all over that country and very few cases, not likely.
Posted on 4/3/20 at 6:54 am to TigahTeeth
Yea Mexico isn’t worried about a flu on steroids they have bigger issues.
Posted on 4/3/20 at 6:55 am to Boatshoes
Damn, that's gonna screw up taco Tuesdays.
Posted on 4/3/20 at 6:56 am to Boatshoes
Not to fear. Mexico doesn't have a middle class. The upper class will get whatever they need. Everyone else is just grist for the mill.
Posted on 4/3/20 at 7:01 am to Boatshoes
Two things will change the way most lefties view this virus with a quickness:
1. Trump stands up and announces that he is expediting sealing off the border and building the wall as part of his emergency declaration.
AND / OR
2. The election is postponed, leaving Trump in office until the virus is resolved.
1. Trump stands up and announces that he is expediting sealing off the border and building the wall as part of his emergency declaration.
AND / OR
2. The election is postponed, leaving Trump in office until the virus is resolved.
Posted on 4/3/20 at 7:02 am to Boatshoes
So when do we hear how it's racist to not take in poor migrants who don't have access to healthcare in their own country?
Posted on 4/3/20 at 7:06 am to The Maj
quote:I'm for the wall, but this not a spending priority at this moment.
Trump stands up and announces that he is expediting sealing off the border and building the wall as part of his emergency declaration.
Posted on 4/3/20 at 7:09 am to HubbaBubba
quote:
I'm for the wall, but this not a spending priority at this moment.
Not arguing whether it is or is not but if there is an infrastructure bill that is going to be passed as part of the virus response, it seems the wall fits in there quite nicely with roads, bridges, and the like...
Posted on 4/3/20 at 7:10 am to Boatshoes
Trump Fidden to build the wall with the defense production act.
Posted on 4/3/20 at 7:19 am to Boatshoes
quote:
Some merchants have even taken to posting on social media that the coronavirus doesn’t exist, that it’s a “trick of the government with other countries to get into debt.”
Apparently they post here.
Posted on 4/3/20 at 7:26 am to Boatshoes
I figure eating authentic Mexican food daily makes you immune to the CV
Posted on 4/3/20 at 7:43 am to HubbaBubba
quote:
Not to fear. Mexico doesn't have a middle class. The upper class will get whatever they need. Everyone else is just grist for the mill.
Yep, the upper class Spaniards that run the place give no fricks about the little brown ones. Deported to the US or dead makes no difference to them.
Posted on 4/3/20 at 7:44 am to The Maj
quote:
2. The election is postponed, leaving Trump in office until the virus is resolved.
That's not how it works
Posted on 4/3/20 at 7:45 am to Powerman
quote:
That's not how it works
No shite sherlock, really?
I have seen a lot of shite that is "not how this works"...
Posted on 4/3/20 at 7:57 am to Boatshoes
Liberals: We shouldn't be asking people for proper documentation! Why do you need to know who they are or where they have been?
Also Liberals: Lock down all the states and ID everyone coming in and out! We have to flatten the curve here people!
Also Liberals: Lock down all the states and ID everyone coming in and out! We have to flatten the curve here people!
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