Honeymooning couple quarantined on ‘coronavirus cruise’ beg Trump for help

The Sun ^ | Feb 8. 2020

[11th_VA]

Milena Basso and her husband Gaetano Cerullo are trapped on the quarantined Diamond Princess off the coast of Japan, with at least 64 cases of the killer virus confirmed on board.

The couple said the situation on the ship is “desperate” with food and water running out and the disease spreading through the 2,000 trapped passengers.

New cases are being confirmed every day, and the American newlyweds say they still have two weeks to wait before they can leave.

Cerullo told Fox News: “We are kind of worried because we've still got two weeks on here assuming that works out in our favor and we still have to get onto American soil.

“And, if Donald Trump could help us in any way...”

[Elsie]

... safely supply a cruise ship containing 3,000 passengers and crew members with fresh water and food,...

Load the supplies om a barge and tie it along side.

Problem solved.

[LilFarmer]

Won’t be hard.

CDC contact tells American couple (different couple) on the ship “its very likely that the virus is actually in the air”

https://twitter.com/ZJasko/status/1225947496888852480

[Jane Long]

LOL....😬😱

[StAnDeliver]

If it’s true that ncov is inducing pneumonia in the 90-100% range then yeah either USNS Comfort or Mercy should probably make way.

This vessel, their internal quarantine is clearly being broken daily and so the vector is established to eventually infect everyone aboard (that is vulnerable) Evac to secure negative pressure spaces will soon be necessary.

[PIF]

It’s impossible to safely supply a cruise ship containing 3,000 passengers

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Cargo transfers ship to ship have been going on since forever. 3,000 people and more are on various navy ships - there is no problem resupplying them. Just have a US navy supply ship pull up along side and throw lines to begin the transfer of supplies.

[null and void]

Please Mr. President we want to come home and not be quaratined </Ebola nurse Kaci Hickox>

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

[BobL]

“The two weeks keep re-setting as each new case crops up. More like two weeks after the last victim dies. “

Kind of like the ‘elimination rounds’ in the day of the Roman Empire.

[goodnesswins]

Well it put the kabosh on my hubs plans for a cruise this year....yippeee

[Guenevere]

My take too!
And they even have a balcony!.
Snowflakes!
Somehow I doubt they voted for Trump

[Wonder Warthog]

Oh, malarkey....the Japanese can lower supplies of food and water by helicopter airlift. Or doctors, for that matter. No..keeping them onboard is the best solution.

[PAR35]

And another thing. Hollywood just can’t come up with any new plot lines. I remember seeing this movie years ago, but it was set on a train running through the mountains, and they re-routed it to go across a rickety bridge.

Took me a while to find it with Google. I forgot that that hero of action films, O.J. Simpson, was the star.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cassandra_Crossing

[PAR35]

I thought so, as well. Until I saw it was tied to the dock and they have a gangway rigged.

[Vigilanteman]

I was on a cruise once. Great food and entertainment, the best of which was frequent sex with my Mrs. to the rhythm of a gently rocking boat in the lowest cost interior cabin.

[CJ Wolf]

Batman and bat boy to the rescue.

Prayers for them.

[skimbell]

Kinda iffy, but unless she has a real deep bag of tricks, could be a long couple of weeks.

[Pajamajan]

" A cruise ship is a floating petri dish."

A plane is worse.

[Brown Deer]

They are stuck in their tiny room and not getting much food or water. And what makes you believe that nobody is complaining?

[ConservativeMind]

Aren’t most ships flagged out of Nigeria or Somalia? They will have to file there, if there’s a corresponding law.

[Capt. Tom]

Well it put the kabosh on my hubs plans for a cruise this year....yippee

Cmon you can do one.

Do an Alaskan cruise. You are not that far from Vancouver to get started,

My daughter likes that cruise and says just drress warm and bring a raincoat.Your not in the Caribbean.
And she will go here again from the Boston area. Much closer to you. -Tom

[samtheman]

A plane is hours.

But you know what, it doesn’t matter that much to me. If you like it, do it.

It’s just not for me.