VP Pence says 21 coronavirus cases on California Grand Princess cruise ship

cnbc ^ | Mar 6, 2020 | William Feuer

[DannyTN]

Vice President Mike Pence said Friday 21 people aboard the Grand Princess cruise ship idled off the coast of California have tested positive for COVID-19.

Of the 21 people who tested positive, 19 are crew members and two are passengers, Pence said, adding that the ship will be brought to a non-commercial port and every person will be tested. He did not say which port the ship will go toward or when it is expected to port. ...

[traderrob6]

Dam% cruise ships are as bad as nursing homes.....Big petri dishes.

[proust]

Out of 40 tested.

[McGavin999]

Wasn’t the cruise right before the one to Hawaii from Mexico? That’s the cruise the man who died was on.

[Gahanna Bob]

19 of the 21 cases are crew members. If I heard correctly, there are 1100 crew members on the ship.

[proust]

My bad, out of 46 tested.

[DannyTN]

What’s interesting is that 19 of the 21 are workers.

What I think that means is they got infected on an earlier trip. The passengers have been exposed but aren’t testing positive YET.

[be-baw]

“Out of 40 tested.”

Could be over 1000+ on that ship who have the virus.

[huckfillary]

I think it’s about time we move on from this BS. It’s starting to get annoying. Besides, in my case death is so preferable to marriage.

[proust]

It doesn’t look good. Princess Cruise also had infected crew members.

[sphinx]

Fortunately they’re not illegal aliens, so the courts won’t demand that they be immediately released into the general population.

[Presbyterian Reporter]

“””Of the 21 people who tested positive, 19 are crew members”””

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This is really scary that so many of the crew tested positive.

[Ingtar]

I really wish I thought you were kidding.

[Mariner]

Pence and Newsome agree...nobody comes off that ship without being tested and spending time in quarantine.

right answer.

[DannyTN]

Just don’t read the CV threads.

Or go find a happy book.

Or imagine your wife is the CV and the only way to disinfect the house is to make her happy. Yeah, you’ll probably die from CV, but at least you died trying.

[Gahanna Bob]

The media hype is worse than the disease. Anything to make the Trump Administration look bad is all that gets reported.

[Sooth2222]

19 are crew members and two are passengers

Well, THAT's interesting!

[LouieFisk]

“Passengers on the ship found out about the test results from Pence’s press briefing, according to a video from a passenger on the ship.
“We apologize but we were not given advance notice of this announcement by the US federal government,” according to an announcement broadcast on the ship and recorded on the video. “It would have been our preference to be the first to make this news available to you.”

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/06/health/california-coronavirus-friday/index.html

[null and void]

Q: How do you filter out Corona Virus cases?

A: With a Pence sieve...

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.

[null and void]

What I think that means is they got infected on an earlier trip. The passengers have been exposed but aren’t testing positive YET.

I think you NAILED it!