If I ever have to “self quarantine” I’m going to book a cruise cabin or some place with room service
OMG that’s the same cruise hubby and I were thinking about taking next spring with our MyVegas points. Those were pre-Ebola plans, lol.
Wow Obola ia a gift that just keep on giving.
Worst
Love
Boat
Episode
EVER!
She was part of the group considered to be only distantly in contact with Duncan and therefore was simply told to take her temperature twice a day but otherwise to go on with her life. She was already on the cruise when the restrictions were expanded when Vinson was diagnosed.
When they were informed about this, she and her husband apparently restricted themselves to their cabin and were waiting to be evacuated to the US as a precautionary measure (probably demanded by the cruise line).
The problem was that at the very onset of this, they announced some (but not enormous) restrictions for a certain set of “high risk” Duncan contacts, but very few for what were considered “low risk,” such as people who didn’t have direct contact with him. It comes of the CDC not taking it seriously, in my opinion, which was the reason that there were no severe mandatory restrictions on the first group and only minor restrictions on the activities of the second group. Now, of course, they’re trying to make up for lost time. (It has been 19 days since this woman had any contact with Duncan’s fluids, so it seems pretty unlikely that she has it.)
That said, I’ve been wondering if the fluid contact is not so much respiratory fluids as stomach or bowel fluids, which all of the health care workers (in any country) would have had some contact with (ick!). Perhaps the virus is more concentrated there. I was reading that one of the reasons for high rates of contagion in Africa is that part of the burial process consists of “pressing the remaining fluids out of the stomach” of the dead person. Double ick - and it would certainly give plenty of exposure to the people doing it.
If it turns out she really has Ebola they’ll have to tow that boat out to sea and sink it. No one will ever want to sail on it again.
cruise ships? cruise ships? haven’t they been in the news in the past. I remember something about an outbreak of illness on cruise ships? Its really easy to spread disease on a cruise ship because of the close contact between passengers?
Something like that.
boy! talk about a bummer!
the lady books a cruise (might be her trip of a lifetime, saved up for years, etc.) then some nut lies about his health and comes to the USA and ends up in her ward...
then she listens to the ‘experts’ (big mistake, i know but...) who tell her that she can’t possibly get sick without ‘close contact’, and she takes off on her dream cruise.. and then WHAM! gets clobbered by all this crap... AND she get’s blames for not having the foresight of the ‘experts’.
and it is no less a bummer for the OTHER passengers, crew, etc...
all because one guy lied and got on a plane....