Posted on 02/17/2020 3:18:11 PM PST by yesthatjallen
Another 99 people have tested positive for coronavirus onboard the stricken Princess Diamond cruise ship docked in Japan, bringing the total number of confirmed infections to 454.
Meanwhile concern is growing over possible infections among passengers from another cruise liner that docked in Cambodia last week. On Sunday a traveller from the MS Westerdam was confirmed to have the virus in Malaysia, days after disembarking along with hundreds of other passengers.
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Japanese public health experts advising the government defended the decision to isolate passengers and crew on the Diamond Princess.
“Many people are testing positive on the ship, but that is because we are testing everyone onboard, regardless of their medical condition,” said Shigeru Omi, the chief director of the Japan Community Health Care Organisation. “And 70% of those testing positive are not showing any symptoms at all.”
With fresh cases emerging daily, the Japanese government has advised citizens to avoid mass gatherings. On Monday it cancelled celebrations for the emperor’s birthday, while organisers of the Tokyo marathon cancelled next month’s mass participation race, in which 38,000 people were due to take part.
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Always lots of false pos and false negs due to interfering substances and specificity errors on gen 1 tests.
If you have internet access to Freerepublic during your free quarantine, you’ll be alright.
There are still uninhabited islands out there. Admittedly, the reason they're uninhabited is because they won't sustain life - no food, no water, no shelter - but these can be supplied by airdrops until the virus burns itself out. Tents, fresh water, canned food - it'd be no vacation but better than sitting in a cabin listening to your neighbor cough his lungs out.
I'd much rather take my chances on the beach...
a month long cruise (Australia/New Zealand)
On Fox News today, a dr from Vanderbilt was interviewed and said that Japan and Diamond Princess had no choice, Japan did not have facilities to accommodate/quarantine all onboard.
Lost wages, heck most employers wont hold s job open for a month
A neighbor just retired last year from a major airline.....she was a flight attendant......
She told me today her friends in the industry are being warned not to fly the Asian route
Just the European route
I have friends who are flying Thursday to New Zealand
It will take 26 hours with a stop in LA
I truly would cancel
I Know what you are saying. And yet this thing is so nasty that even the fish might catch it. Imagine that for a moment.
I guess that in the old days they had something called Sulfur Candles. I guess they killed everything.
http://netnebraska.org/article/news/1205780/new-quarantine-center-unmc-ready-if-needed-coronavirus
Flying some of them to Omaha.
Great facility, and one that is located near my extended family.
However, there is not enough beds for this.
Philippine media claim that at least 27 Filipino crew (out of 500 crew) are infected...
Sorry this didn’t get vetted by the Chinese Communist Government first, to the disappointment of some here
I’m starting to think the long flights are a bigger problem than the cruise...especially to Aus/NZ
Been there, awesome trip, hope it works out.
My guess that should be a safe trip.
Can I conclude you like the gambling casinos?-Tom
Just in time for the Captains lobster dinner party?
I know that that ship is going to have a fresh coating of paint and a new name as soon as she gets tented and fumigated with the strongest antiviral misters known to man.
No way someone is going to buy tickets to cruise on that thing after this now, it will be interesting to follow the ship and see what happens to it. I bet it changes hands three times through shell corporations, renamed, cosmetically altered and then put back into service hoping its not wide spread news which ship she was.
Anyone with half a brain knows what happens when you lock up several thousand people in a confined area with someone has a communicable disease. Viola! They will all get the disease.
When the disease has a 4 percent fatality rate, scores of them will DIE! The Diamond Princess line faces major lawsuits, and it deserves them all.
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