ironic. ebola would actually improve cozumel.
My G-d. Does everyone realize how INCREDIBLY expensive this is for the company? I hope they sue the CDC and win.
Did the nurse make it back on the ship from the tender?
Belize wouldn’t let a person at risk of Ebola in to their country.
Mexico wouldn’t let a person at risk of Ebola in to their country.
Meanwhile, in America, we are not only fast-tracking Visa’s from Ebola countries, now they are talking about bringing already-INFECTED African Ebola victims here!!!
Even Mexico gets it, while the USA welcomes ebola.
The company should give them a total refund. It’ll be cheaper than the law suits.
Please call congress and tell them that we must be deadly serious about containing Ebola by strict quarantine within the United States and from infected nations. This is our right and our duty and it is THEIR duty to protect US.
Capitol switchboard is 202-224-3121 or Google your congressman or senator and get his contact information and call him / her office directly. You can also call or go to their local offices.
I believe decisive response is urgent because you can’t put this Ebola genie back in the bottle once it gets out. It is a fire, it consumes all the fuel it can get and the fuel is people. The only way to stop a fire is to block it from the fuel or cool it with water. A vaccine or medicine to treat Ebola would be the water and we don’t have reliable, enough or any.
Every possible measure must be taken to stop the spread before draconian measures are imposed. What is being done now is sloppy. We are walking a dangerous road. The threat is blossoming by the day if not hour. Almost every hour there is some new Ebola development and none of them are good. This is a serious and potentially deadly event. Unchecked it could destroy or weaken the United States and facilitate our destruction by others. It has that potential for every country and that is why so many are responding with such strict quarantines. These consequences, no matter how small the probabilities, demand a full effort and significant response.
Ebola is being spread here in the United States right now. First Texas, then Ohio then? Terror is an excellent weapon. It disrupts, confuses, paralyzes and destroys a society. Many others and we on FR have speculated that terrorists may spread Ebola. How do you that remember 9/11 feel right now compared to what you felt then? Do you want to gather your loved ones near you to protect them? I do. Even more than I did on September 11, 2001! Isn’t this passive response by this administration accomplishing the very same things a terrorist would want?
When something is being done that makes as little sense as what Obama is doing there has to be some other reason. I leave it to you dear reader to draw your own conclusions as to the reasons.
What is happening now is insane. It makes no sense at all. For example the head of CDC says: “Stopping travel from Africa won’t do any good because you have to get people into Africa to fight Ebola.” “You can’t get Ebola from an infected person on a bus but an infected person should never be on a bus because he can infect others.” “Blocking travel from infected countries would damage their fragile economies.” What about ours? What about our safety? What about resources we have paid for that should be protecting us?
Even the most despotic dictatorship in Africa has acted to protect his nation by strict quarantine and stopping travel from infected countries. Even CDC, the UN and WHO advocate and credit strict quarantine for nipping the spread of Ebola in the bud at the source in places like Senegal and Nigeria where both have had faster and more successful outbreak controls than we have had here. 35 countries have stopped travel of people from infected West African countries. It is so obvious even a child could understand it so why is it OK for people from infected countries to travel here?
I will post this message and keep posting it until someone stops me.
For further reference:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3216461/posts
Some compensation for a boatload of tourists cowering in their cabins, air conditioning turned off, eating seagulls and drinking bottled beer and rainwater.
Reading John Heald’s (head cruise director) page this morning....$200.00 on board credit and a $50.00 off future cruise for each passenger. Carnival is taking a big hit, especially when this was no fault of their own. The Magic goes from Sun. to Sun. my husband and I were wondering about the debarkation process with this going on. That and the clean up, all because of the inept CDC. What a mess...
It’s the Love... *cough* *cough* boat... *vomit*
Say no to Noro
Say yes to Ebola?
The passengers will be able to take another “ebola cruise” at half price.
Carnival is the lamest of the lame in the cruise ship industry. They're booze cruises priced for the younger party animal set. Ships are all beat up and the food is like Golden Corral buffet. They're also the line that has had all the at-sea passenger poisonings. Destinations are all the 'get stabbed with a Caribbean hobo knife' port calls because they're the cheapest.
Not at all surprised to learn that some dingbat Ebola nurse ended up on a Carnival cruise. She probably planned to spend the whole trip drunk and laid. I'd rather join the Indian Navy for a week than go on an all expense paid 7-day Carnival cruise.
Anyone interested in cruising is 1000x better off with Royal Caribbean or Celebrity. Expect to pay a little more.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
The real issue is when is the ship’s next scheduled sailing?
Some how I don’t it is going to enough time to disinfect the ship.
I wonder how many passengers are going to show up?