Posted on 03/31/2020 6:56:02 PM PDT by Capt. Tom
On Tuesday, authorities in Broward County, Fla. — where the cruise ship with four dead and two in dire need of medical attention hopes to dock this week — said a plan presented by owner Carnival Corp. does not yet address all their concerns.
A representative for the U.S. Coast Guard said the Zaandam and an accompanying ship would not be allowed to enter U.S. waters without submitting “a complete plan for self-support of the medical issues occurring on board the vessels.”
At a meeting Tuesday, Coast Guard Capt. Jo-Ann Burdian said a “unified command” — a group of local, state and federal agencies — was looking to get concerns addressed and reach unanimous consent for the ships to dock.
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Why isn't (Dutch) Aruba under any pressure to assist?
The Zaandam was scheduled to be in Port Everglades on April 7th, so some people who took a long cruise on the Zaandam probably left their cars there, and flew to south America to board the ship. -Tom
Would you have them throw them overboard?
FL does not want or need .
We have ICU beds fir our residents not foreigners .
Send them packing .
Trump wants to win FL .
Listen to the Fl Gov.
Keep sailing .
We have a mess in SFL .
it left from ft lauderdale as a round the southern hemisphere cruise as i understand it. some of the passengers have been on board since october
so why would America be stuck with caring for passengers from a cruise that started in South America?....why is America always the one to get dumped on?....
Not getting in your car and infect the rest of the state.
Desantis needs the national guard to stop this insanity.
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we took the tail end of the cruise on that very ship about 6 years ago. BA Argentina to Valparaiso Chile. Great cruise professional company. It strikes me not only are you contained when on ship, but then you go into ports and mix with locals. Perfect for carrying and getting virus.
A plague of African origin breaks out on an international airline flight. As passengers keel over one by one, the pilot frantically searches for an airport to land. No one is equipped to treat the virus, so no one will allow them (they are allowed to refuel out on the tarmac, as long as no one opens the door, and they take off immediately). They eventually get permission to debark, but only at the backwater African village where the virus originated!
In this spirit, I nominate the harbor at NYC. They like international tourists and already got the virus, so why not?
The actual pandemic wasn't formally declared until March 11, but there were plenty of warnings before then. (The US State Department issued an advisory warning Americans not to travel on cruise ships on March 08.)
Now Carnival wants to dump there infected mess in a hot zone .
Fl Gov said no .
Trump better staff by him .
Fl a swing state and we need our ICU beds for us not foreigners and idiots taking cruises during a well known pandemic,
What are you talking about. We need to get the bodies and everyone off that ship. Period. FIGURE IT OUT.
And the Zaandam was underway.
07 Mar Departing from Buenos Aires, Argentina
They should try Cuba. If that doesn’t work the captain could try Antwerp. They might need to re-name it the M.S. St. Louis first.
Has the fraction of Anti-Trumpers on board been determined?
Or rename it the Flying Dutchman. -Tom
The Flying Dutchman (Dutch: De Vliegende Hollander) is a legendary ghost ship that can never make port and is doomed to sail the oceans forever. The myth is likely to have originated from the 17th-century golden age of the Dutch East India Company
Wagner wrote an entire opera about it.
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