This person lived for about 2 days. This was back around when Pelosi was still telling people to come to China town. Covid was on our radar but it hadn't yet developed into the focus of everyone's attention. They tested this person before he/she died and the test was negative but this was back when the Covid test was plagued by unreliability issues. There's no way this person was Covid negative. No way.
Anyways, TSA put this person on an airplane. He/she was flying home from vacation. They had to wheelchair his/her obtunded half dead body onto the jet full of passengers. That should not have happened. He/she never should have even been allowed into the airport let alone onto a plane.
He/she is for hipaa purposes incidentally.
No special pandemic rules were or are needed when it comes to airlines taking themselves out of the responsibility of handling an obviously extremely ill person, and given that Covid-19 spread was already beginning, both the airline and the TSA had all the authority they needed to NOT take the patient on a regular commercial passenger flight. The did not need, legally, CDC rules or anything else to make a different choice in the matter.
On a long flight from one coast to other, people sit within inches of each other, breathing each others exhaled air.
Covid-19 virus is primarily a respiratory virus. On a large cruise ship (100,000 tins+) one can avoid easily avoid crowds and there is ample opportunity to breathe the ocean air with high oxygen levels from the zillions of plankton in ocean water. One has the option of 24 hour room service or many other opportunities to grab food from a buffet station and use an outdoor table. Even in the main theater there are usually plenty of empty seats.
So, I agree that air travel should be lot more restricted than cruise ship travel. But airlines do not impact Florida or governor DeSantis like the cruise business does. So I don’t expect CDC will do any favors to DeSantis.
Bahama & other Caribbean ports are not far from Miami. We have already done a couple of cruises sailing from Montego Bay in Jamaica. It was no sweat at all, except for the slow lines to sign in for return flight from Montego Bay to Miami.