Posted on 02/09/2020 9:33:59 PM PST by SpeedyInTexas
Testing aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan has found 60 more confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus, domestic broadcaster TBS TV said via Twitter.
That brings total cases on the ship docked in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, to 130, according to TBS. The liner was placed on a two-week quarantine on arriving at Yokohama on Feb. 3.
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Not sure but they should reset the clock.
Thanks...it’s nice to get actual FACTS. They seem to be hard to come by.
Well put a couple thousand people in a tin can together and yeh stuff spreads.
Time to get everyone off that ship and into real isolation.
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Yes. The authorities are essentially condemning them all to getting sick in the current situation.
That ship is a giant inoculum poised to grossly infect Japan with the coronavirus. If that happens it will be a disaster for the people Japan. It will also be an economic catastrophe which will precipitate a worldwide recession.
Very much doubt the Japanese authorities will allow those passengers to disembark.
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You are correct about the importance of isolation, but Japan is a rich country and could afford the facilities and the manpower needed to move these unfortunates off that ship of the damned and into true isolation.
Hello muddah
Hello faddah
Here I am
In Yokohama
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Clever.
But sad.
interesting
Yes, as sanitation in much of India is rather sub-par.
“Getting 3,700 hundred people off a ship into single isolation rooms would be a massive task. Most hospitals only have a relatively few isolation rooms.”
I think I read Japan has 2000 isolation rooms at hospitals country wide.
The 3700 can’t all be sent to the hospital. They should be isolated at military bases, hotels, etc. Only those testing positive sent to the hospital.
“One way or another, I don’t think that cruise ship will have very many repeat customers.”
I read the cruise company was going to give them a full refund and a voucher for a free cruise in the future.
“This keeps being said, but I have seen ZERO official evidence that it is fact. Show me............”
On Cruise Ship Quarantined In Japan, Any New Cases Would Reset The Isolation Clock ==> https://www.npr.org/2020/02/07/803843303/on-cruise-ship-quarantined-in-japan-any-new-cases-would-reset-the-isolation-cloc
According to WHO, the clock should be reset after each confirmed case. Will Japan do that? Time will tell.
only those testing positive that are sick enough to need hospitalization should be sent to a hospital. The rest. like. e observed at a barracks or hotel reserved for the infected but not seriously ill
Because an island isolation camp set up using the resources of a wealthy national government to deal with a highly contagious disease would somehow still not be able to duplicate the medical staff and facilities available aboard the cruise ship.
Of course! What possessed me to even suggest it?
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Canadian TV News:
Life under quarantine on a cruise ship (14 hours ago)
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1695682115937
Shows interior, windowless cabin and plight of healthy people on board waiting to catch coronavirus.
Yeah, an isolation camp in Army tents will just be paradise compared to the primitiveness of a cruise ship. The luxury of latrines, communal bathing facilities...all the comforts of home. No thanks!
A floating prison a solution does not make.
/yoda
Sounds like anybody breaking China’s quarantine will be rounded up and summarily executed. Gonna need a bigger incinerator.
Depends on what you mean by “army tents “. The army tent of the 21st-century is a lot different than what you’re probably imagining, especially when talking about a country like Japan. Google “Expeditionary medical facilities” for further information.
In addition, moving the passengers to land would allow their physical distribution over a larger area so that the sick and the possibly sick could be isolated, truly isolated from the still healthy. It would also allow the introduction of fresh air and sunshine into the equation, so that the passengers were not constantly in a confined environment where the sickness is apparently still spreading.
It would allow the introduction of protocols to control contamination so that the true vectors of transmission of the disease could be identified. As it is now, information released to the public says that it is airborne with a two week incubation period before the disease becomes manifest. But there’s been a report in the last few days that it may be also caused by improper handwashing after using the bathroom. That implies transmission could come through something common like food preparation facilities and workers.
Isolating the uninfected would also stop the constant resetting of the two week quarantine period so they eventually could be cleared for release and return to their normal lives.
Of course, they can just keep doing what they are doing now. Reports on NHK, the Japanese national public radio and television service, reported 65 new cases aboard the ship this morning.
I don’t know. It’s a good question.
I’m sure hotels have central air, and the ducting would operate pretty much the same way it does on the ship.
It would be a massive undertaking to facilitate this, and then the next cruise ship docks, and the next, and the next...
Seems to me, whether we like it or not, keeping people on the ship is probably the best resolution, as long as preventative measures are taken to prevent spread of the disease.
Cranking down the air to almost no/or none at all circulation could help. Keeping people in their rooms could help.
It’s a mess.
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