I hope he’s a starving ex comic.
He put people at risk.
He should be fired.
Nothing funny about that.
A nice hotel room? How would he have liked it if he was stuck at sea like those
other people on that other ship? This action only agitates big government to
impose more radical quarantines
It’s a crime to break quarantine.
Throw his ass in prison.
He sure isn’t a “WooHoo!” comic.
What a total irresponsible jackass!
He was inspired by Kaci Hickox the Ebola Nurse.
He’s lucky he did not pull that stunt in North Korea.
He would have been eternally self-deported.
No matter how carefully we monitor this there will always be ‘Typhoid Marys’ who actively work to skirt our efforts.
If he was infected with Wuhan flu, then he exposed everyone in those airliners to the disease.
let’s see, stay on the cruise ship and die or flee, I pick flee. Good for him!
I don’t think he was planning to go back on a floating petri dish you can’t get off of, anytime soon, anyways.
“Remember the cruise vacation that turned into the movie Contagion?” “You know its a bad sign when the ships crew looks like the cast of The Andromeda Strain.”
Please take not of the drop in reports of new cases. It is Mainland China
related, and is making these questionable numbers from the start, look
even worse.
In the last day or so the leadership of China stated they have done a
a lot of work to end COVID-19, and local Wuhan leaders would be held
responsible for reports of new cases.
DATE TIME DAY CASES 02/17/20 23:43 MON 31 02/18/20 09:23 TUE 31 02/18/20 15:23 TUE 31 02/18/20 18:13 TUE 31 02/18/20 20:33 TUE 31 02/18/20 23:03 TUE 31 02/19/20 08:43 WED 31 02/19/20 15:53 WED 31 02/19/20 20:03 WED 82 02/19/20 23:33 WED 82 02/19/20 23:53 WED 82 02/20/20 09:33 THU 104 02/20/20 16:13 THU 104 02/20/20 18:33 THU 156
I know this p***k through business contacts.
Here he is in a KOMO video interview, in his own words. I made a transcript, 99% accurate.
“And there was really no official “you can’t leave.” If you tried to go out the front door with your luggage, security would stop you. If you went out with your backpack and you’re sight-seein’, not a problem, I thought.
Then they did what they should have done to start with: They did a swab in the nose, a swab in the throat...because 200-some odd of us...by now it’s the 15th of February there. Um...16th...16th of February.
So, how long is it going to take to get the results back? ‘Cause nobody’s moving ‘til those results come back, and I got an engagement on the 20th of February, and I speak on suicide prevention. So, not only is it my paycheck, but you know sometimes when I speak, you know, it’s just enough information for somebody whose depressed & suicidal, you know, just enough to keep ‘em alive.
So, I thought, you know, I’m outta here. I’m gonna get my bags, so I walked around the entire hotel to see what security looked like...all the muckety-mucks with security are at the front gate, all the peons are at the back gate...so out I go the back gate with my luggage. My plan was if they stopped me and really wouldn’t let me go, I was gonna take it back to my room, just remove what I couldn’t live without, leave my bags in the room and take my backpack. SIGHTSEEIN’!
But, security tried to stop me and all I could say was ‘No’. ‘You must leave your bags’. ‘No.’ ‘What is your room number?’ ‘No, cause...if I got stopped at the airport, I wanted to be able to come back at my room.
‘You tell me your room! You must leave your bags!’ ‘Nnno.’ ‘You must!’ ‘Unless you’re gonna arrest me...’ and I already called the Uber. and over there it’s like this little 3-wheeled toc-toc, you know? It’s like a Briggs & Stratton engine, and a big sweaty guy, and no doors, no place for luggage. I’m holding my luggage like this. And I gotta tell ya, I would have gone piggyback on him - on foot - to get to the airport.
So I get to the airport and I chose Emirates because some people had been turned away from the airport by a discount airline. I think the discount airline figured passengers are gonna cheap out. I betcha anybody who makes a last minute reservation on EVA is somebody who’s trying to flee the country, and sure enough they turned ‘em back. I thought, ‘You know what? I’m buying Emirates,’ twice the price and I bought the upgrade on top of that, just for extra comfort.
Sailed right through. Bangkok, one question: ‘Been to China?’ ‘No.’ Dubai: No questions. Here? ‘Been to China?’ ‘Nope.’ ‘Fine, you’re done!’”
“Orignally, how long was the cruise?”
“Two weeks.”
“Two weeks. And you were on for...”
“Two weeks. I would’ve gotten off...if things had worked out, I would have been on my way home on the day I was supposed to be on my way home. But when the woman tested positive in Kuala Lumpur, the whole thing came to a screeching halt and that’s the point where I started doin’ the math about getting’ home...There’s still 200 people in the hotel, plus there’s still a couple hundred people on the ship. I NEVER would have made it back in time.”
“So there’s still people on the ship that they won’t let get off the ship?”
“Yeah, ‘cause it froze the whole operation in place.”
“K.”
“And the ship, you know...it’s a wonderful place to be stuck but, you know, people like me got a job and, you know, I...c...I...I mean...I...selfishly...well, by the way, somebody said to me, ‘Isn’t it kinda selfish of you to self-deport?’ I said, well, I...I took the tests - you know that - the results aren’t back, but...no fever, no symptoms. And February 1...February 15th: 14-day incubation period: I feel fine. So I figure...AND, if these guys had said, ‘You can’t fly into Oregon’ I’ve got a car rented and a plane flight from HERE [Seattle]. So if I couldn’t fly, if I had to self-quarantine, I’d have gotten in the rent-a-car. And my gig’s in Arkansas, and I calculated, if I had to self-quarantine...I had to DRIVE to Arkansas, I get there by the 20th, so put nobody else at risk.”
Jokes on him!