Bad News:
I thought a whole cruise ship had been let loose in NJ. Maybe the CDC has reason to think this isn't coronavirus, but if they are wrong, 23 people could infect a lot of NJ. It's not clear that the 23 were told to self isolate. It sounds like they weren't.
The Royal Caribbean cruise ship with the passengers who fell ill docked around 6 a.m. in Bayonne, according to WABC-TV. The report said the four who are being evaluated were transported to University Hospital in Newark.
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I would like to see the list of names of those Big Brain Officials who allowed this ship to dock.
Why isn’t little dictator Greta, aka Lie Ying, over there telling the Chinese if they cleaned up their crap...they might be able to live longer. She could go cheaply on an empty cargo vessel.
It appears the passengers have a weekend to run around NJ/NY before returning by departure time Monday. The CDC took a chance letting anyone off the ship until the test results came back.
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.
#BREAKING UPDATE: Crew member found dead on Royal Caribbean cruise ship docked in NJ, not believed to be coronavirus-related: report https://t.co/dx8oogPy9G pic.twitter.com/N4SNMCCWto— 1010 WINS (@1010WINS) February 8, 2020
Not too late for us to do as they did in THE DECAMERON but we will probably end up like The Mask of the Red Death.