[SpeedyInTexas]

As I've said before, get those people off the ship.

Virus is in the AC vents.

[janetjanet998]

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Quarantine officer infected with coronavirus was carrying out an inspection of the “Diamond Princess” cruise ship near Tokyo - NHK
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[Pearls Before Swine]

That’s my take. If you have a balcony room, maybe you can plug the vents and open the door. Otherwise, you’re screwed.

[Dogbert41]

They are going to have to take the ship out to sea and scuttle it.

[Bonemaker]

“They were found on the “Diamond Princess” cruise ship”

“Diamond Princess”...aka SS Coronavirus.

[null and void]

Petri Cruises

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.

[null and void]

I think we should fly them all to Texas.

“What’s that you say?”

“NOT IN MY BACK YARD!”

Everybody says that, silly...

[VAFreedom]

yep, they need help before it is too late, they need to be quarantined separately. although that is a lot of people to handle at once.

[ETCM]

They are only on day 7, so we don’t yet know if it is still spreading on the ship. I know it must be terrifying for those on board. So far, it seems most people show symptoms within 3-7 days, so if we continue to see this many “new” cases over a couple more days, they have to assume the quarantine procedures are not stopping the spread from passenger to passenger. At that point, they will be under massive pressure to allow people off the ship into a purpose built facility, or be evacuated by their home country.

[LilFarmer]

CDC contact tells American couple on the ship “its very likely that the virus is actually in the air”
https://twitter.com/ZJasko/status/1225947496888852480

[mrsmith]

“in the AC vents”

Yep.
Apparently it wasn’t known at the time that the virus is aerosoled (though it seemed obvious that it would be).

[Zhang Fei]

Yet another reason to believe the Chinese government numbers are understated by at least 1 order of magnitude, i.e. they need to add a zero on the end.

[familyop]

The hospitals are stuffed with flu cases. The folks on those ships could be flown to the ski resorts on the Rockies, though. ;)

[familyop]

Oh, I know. They could all be moved to tents on Galveston and Padre, or Garner St. Park. ;)

[Ouderkirk]

Keeping them on that ship is criminal.

Quarantine is fine but not getting them off there is a death sentence

[BenLurkin]

It’s a nightmare scenario, it’s almost as if they being used as lab rats.

[Mount Athos]

That’s the dumbest idea i’ve see posted on FR all year

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

Nobody will ever get on this ship again. Might as well sink it afterwards

[ZOOKER]

On a cruise ship, there are just too many people confined to 'way too small a space. Everyone will be exposed (although not everyone will succumb). It's a death sentence.

Transportation of 4000 possibly infected people risks spreading the disease worldwide. How about another option? There are still uninhabited islands in the world, how about a vacation on the beach? Airdrop supplies and wait it out...

[sauropod]

bkmk

[Abathar]

I wonder how fast the ship will be renamed after this is all over.
Psychologically no one is going to want to take a week cruise on that thing now, no matter how many gassings they do to sterilize it now.