[null and void]

Somehow I knew that they’d be upset.

[9YearLurker]

And she’d rather how many people potentially lose their lives completely because of her selfishness?

[null and void]

Next time don't. Just don't.

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.

[stars & stripes forever]

You’d think Americans would be grateful the U.S. got them off the cruise ship and onto American soil, with its superior treatment for infectious disease.

They made the choice to take a cruise, risks included.

[Gamecock]

I’m sure they were briefed on this before they made the decision to come home.

[Jane Long]

I’ve already labeled this chick a whiney, crybaby....selfish weeotch.

[Balding_Eagle]

Remember how quarantines for AIDs was verboten?

that worked out so well I think we are to try it again

[DoughtyOne]

I wonder how much time “DEAD” would have taken from her life?

Now we’ll be fed endless stories about how unfair Trump is.

E N O U G H !!!!

[redgolum]

Life sucks. But I suppose letting the bug team free would be better

[LeonardFMason]

Selfish.

[colorado tanker]

Those folks ought to stop and consider there are a lot of crazy Americans who think the same authorities in charge of this SNAFU ought to run the entire US health care system.

[Moonman62]

Earlier this week, it emerged that some 1,000 crew on board the ship had not been kept in quarantine, eating meals together with masks off and working side by side.

...

A lot of people weren’t obeying the rules.

I’d read something similar about a week ago.

[IndispensableDestiny]

Idiots. They were on a floating petri dish, waiting to be the next infection.

[Seruzawa]

Just the media doing what it does, maximizing the worst.

[lurk]

My favorite cruise line is a condo in the Rocky Mountains. These latest outbreaks exhibit why.

[Mr. Rabbit]

Of course. We have to have CNN getting a picture of some drama queen blubbering on camera. They just reported 99 new cases on the ship. Perhaps she’d rather be there?

[PghBaldy]

"Rod J. Rosenstein... has one sister, Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Rosenstein

[njslim]

Couple of LONG LANCE torpedoes amidships should solve the problem …….

[BobL]

She needs to learn that, while money can buy you a lot (like a cruise in the Far East), it CANNOT buy you everything. She needs to now do her time and I doubt our boys at Travis will be very patient with her ‘needs’.

[SES1066]

Know history, gain perspective!

Quarantines have a long history for a good reason, they are a brute force method that works. Ships would sail into a harbor under the era-equivalent of the above flag, indicating infection or serious illness aboard. This summons public health authorities as well as port officials. No one is permitted to disembark until cleared by these officials.

In the US, up until the 1950s, it was not unusual for an individual house and residents to be placed in quarantine for a number of infectious diseases by public health officials.

A reminder of this history is that the Surgeon General position in the United States Executive branch wears a uniform and heads a uniformed service, the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps (PHSCC). Because their original mission was working in ports and ships, their uniforms and ranks match their USN & USCG commissioned counterparts. The Surgeon General ranks equivalent with a Vice Admiral.

FYI: With the new US Space Force, there are now 8 "Uniformed Services" in the US Executive branch.