Posted on 04/01/2020 9:39:52 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
The Coast Guard is directing cruise ships with passengers that may be infected with coronavirus to stay offshore “indefinitely” and prepare to treat passengers aboard their ships, according to a safety bulletin issued Sunday.
The Coast Guard’s new regulations mandate all ships in U.S. waters with more than 50 people give daily updates on their medical caseloads or face civil or criminal punishment. Coast Guard Rear Admiral E.C. Jones, whose district covers Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and Puerto Rico, signed the bulletin preventing ship evacuations.
“This is necessary as shore-side medical facilities may reach full capacity and lose the ability to accept and effectively treat additional critically-ill patients,” the memo said. “A potential evacuee has better access to comfortable surroundings and the medical staff on board the foreign passenger vessel where care is already being provided.”
Foreign-flagged vessels “that loiter beyond U.S. territorial seas” should first attempt to evacuate passengers through their countries, the regulations say. Many of South Florida’s cruise ships are registered in the Bahamas, a country with limited hospital capacity, The Associated Press noted.
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I live in Florida and I agree. Ship must be able to at least dock.
I had a tenant leave March 15th. Broke lease for new job. So I was free and clear in the unit.
One week later than tenant calls back and wants to come back, pay up and continue. He was likely a carrier of the virus. I said ok. We are keeping our distance, had to block air vents and install a window a/c, just to separate air spaces.
Yes, and bleed them for plasma loaded with antibodies!
Mostly, but not completely /S
Yep.
5.56mm
“They all had to fly to get on. All will have passports. 100%”
Since when is a passport required for a domestic flight?
Good. Get them help on board.
To get on that Zaandam ship you had to fly to Argentina or Chile. You are over your head on this thread. Hmm a rhyme !
DeSantis is doing a GREAT job.
WHEN did these ships set sail???? I would say well after the Pandemic was under way.
They CHOSE poorly. WHY is it Florida’s responsibility to take all these potentially infected folks in?
The cruise started in Argentina.
A small fire started by a crew member who wants off could force the USCG to have to evacuate these ships.
This needs to be resolved quickly.
You know all those prisoners they are letting out?
Perfect place to put them all.
How do the Coast Guard idiots think these ships will pay for much less supply themselves with food and fuel?
We’ve become Idiocracy.
Not right. Trump needs to intervene. He needs to call on all possible agencies to find some way to bring these boats to share, take their passengers off safely, isolate and test all the passengers, and get any critically ill into hospitals. U.S. coast guard, U.S. military (Navy), national guard, homeland security, state governors, state agencies - whatever; get them all working to solve this.
Were you able to watch the Corona News conference today? President answered that question at the end, 2nd or 3rd to last question he took.
DeSAntis BETTER do the RIGHT thing!
Yes...the flagged home ports do have their own issues, but I fail to see why they should be headed to the US to offload their ill non-US citizen passengers onto the US healthcare system.
This might interest you too;
The State Department has rescued more than 27,000 Americans from 50 countries during the past several weeks since the coronavirus stranded scores of U.S. citizens abroad, including in some countries that have been placed on complete lockdown.
INHUMANE!
it’s a death sentence
If the ship is allowed to dock, legalities may kick in that will make containment difficult.
Perhaps FReeper legal eagles could weigh in on that.
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