[SpeedyInTexas]

Time to get everyone off that ship and into real isolation.

[irishjuggler]

Seems like the Japanese are treating the ship as isolation... which is very unfortunate for the as-yet uninfected on board.

[BenLurkin]

Just d-mn

[lightman]

“So long, Mama, I’m stuck at Yokohama”

[allendale]

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.

[Sleeping Freeper]

Almost doubled in one day. Must be circulating in the air system. If so, there will be a lot more. Need to get them off the ship into isolation.

[Karl Spooner]

Might be too late. It’s airborne through the air duct system. they say.

[dayglored]

Reports of passenger suicides in... 3... 2... 1...

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

How many people are on that ship in total?

[stars & stripes forever]

How is the ship disposing of the infected body waste?

[null and void]

It's beginning to sound like a Chinese quarantine.

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.

[bigbob]

And Beijing is now on lockdown.

“If a person refuses to accept hospital quarantine, home quarantine, and other epidemic prevention measures, the public security organ shall severely punish those who commit acts against the administration of public security, according to the law.”

[Berlin_Freeper]

You won’t find this on a travel brochure.

[KarlInOhio]

The liner was placed on a two-week quarantine on arriving at Yokohama on Feb. 3.

Two weeks was picked as the quarantine time because that's supposed to be the maximum amount of time between exposure and symptoms appearing if the exposed person has caught it. But since more and more people are catching it, that quarantine should be expanded to two weeks after the last case seen.

The two weeks might be different if they are doing regular testing on everyone to see if they have the disease instead of relying on symptom appearance.

But the rest of the passengers better not be getting off the boat in one more week. I doubt they are keeping total isolation, including individualized HVAC, to prevent passengers from infecting each other.

[Cowboy Bob]

Voyage of the damned?

[neverevergiveup]

That the Chinese government were so concerned by this, so early, suggests to me that they knew more about this virus than they should have.

[AlaskaErik]

Voyage of the Damned. These people are nothing more than lab rats to see how an epidemic spreads thorough a ship.

[VanShuyten]

“ Time to get everyone off that ship and into real isolation.”

Nope. They’re just fine right there. If someone gets sick enough to need intensive care which cannot be transported onboard, then take them off. This virus doesn’t seem to be airborne, so the ship is better than moving them through populated areas to some kind of isolation tank, which is what I imagine you’re thinking of.

I think we can get a good idea of the real infection and mortality rates, now that they’re in a first-world country and not the lying, third-world Communist China.

[shanover]

Japan is a very complicated culture that does do things right in my opinion. They don’t let scum into their country like Muslims and similar disease.

[volunbeer]

What a nightmare! I don’t see how they leave them all on the ship.

[OrangeHoof]

Sounds like a bad week to run out of toilet paper.

This stuff sounds like it could make for a cool Movie Of The Week: “Cruise Ship Quarantine”.