Posted on 10/17/2014 1:06:30 PM PDT by rstrahan
Update on the Texas nurse on the Carnival Magic cruise per Carnival social media updates.
First, the nurse is showing no signs of Ebola. Good News. Second, though, Mexico refused the ship docking privileges in Cozumel, so the ship is returning to its home port of Galveston. Carnival is giving on-board credit to the passengers and a discount on a future cruise for their inconvenience, even though it is not Carnival's fault. So Carnival is doing its best to make things good for the passengers.
ironic. ebola would actually improve cozumel.
My G-d. Does everyone realize how INCREDIBLY expensive this is for the company? I hope they sue the CDC and win.
Did the nurse make it back on the ship from the tender?
Wow,
Was there some sort of rush to get out and mingle with the common folk directive. Flying on a plane , going on a cruise, what’s next go to a crowded Football stadium and mingle with about 80,000?
Yes, the CDC will say little risk of infection to others, but why take ANY risk at all?
Glad I locked in my cruise price for next May!
Holy chaos batman - I have a feeling we got a boatload of nasty fussy drunk animals. What a party! Not.
Belize wouldn’t let a person at risk of Ebola in to their country.
Mexico wouldn’t let a person at risk of Ebola in to their country.
Meanwhile, in America, we are not only fast-tracking Visa’s from Ebola countries, now they are talking about bringing already-INFECTED African Ebola victims here!!!
Even Mexico gets it, while the USA welcomes ebola.
The company should give them a total refund. It’ll be cheaper than the law suits.
This is the government our founders warned us about.
Please call congress and tell them that we must be deadly serious about containing Ebola by strict quarantine within the United States and from infected nations. This is our right and our duty and it is THEIR duty to protect US.
Capitol switchboard is 202-224-3121 or Google your congressman or senator and get his contact information and call him / her office directly. You can also call or go to their local offices.
I believe decisive response is urgent because you can’t put this Ebola genie back in the bottle once it gets out. It is a fire, it consumes all the fuel it can get and the fuel is people. The only way to stop a fire is to block it from the fuel or cool it with water. A vaccine or medicine to treat Ebola would be the water and we don’t have reliable, enough or any.
Every possible measure must be taken to stop the spread before draconian measures are imposed. What is being done now is sloppy. We are walking a dangerous road. The threat is blossoming by the day if not hour. Almost every hour there is some new Ebola development and none of them are good. This is a serious and potentially deadly event. Unchecked it could destroy or weaken the United States and facilitate our destruction by others. It has that potential for every country and that is why so many are responding with such strict quarantines. These consequences, no matter how small the probabilities, demand a full effort and significant response.
Ebola is being spread here in the United States right now. First Texas, then Ohio then? Terror is an excellent weapon. It disrupts, confuses, paralyzes and destroys a society. Many others and we on FR have speculated that terrorists may spread Ebola. How do you that remember 9/11 feel right now compared to what you felt then? Do you want to gather your loved ones near you to protect them? I do. Even more than I did on September 11, 2001! Isn’t this passive response by this administration accomplishing the very same things a terrorist would want?
When something is being done that makes as little sense as what Obama is doing there has to be some other reason. I leave it to you dear reader to draw your own conclusions as to the reasons.
What is happening now is insane. It makes no sense at all. For example the head of CDC says: “Stopping travel from Africa won’t do any good because you have to get people into Africa to fight Ebola.” “You can’t get Ebola from an infected person on a bus but an infected person should never be on a bus because he can infect others.” “Blocking travel from infected countries would damage their fragile economies.” What about ours? What about our safety? What about resources we have paid for that should be protecting us?
Even the most despotic dictatorship in Africa has acted to protect his nation by strict quarantine and stopping travel from infected countries. Even CDC, the UN and WHO advocate and credit strict quarantine for nipping the spread of Ebola in the bud at the source in places like Senegal and Nigeria where both have had faster and more successful outbreak controls than we have had here. 35 countries have stopped travel of people from infected West African countries. It is so obvious even a child could understand it so why is it OK for people from infected countries to travel here?
I will post this message and keep posting it until someone stops me.
For further reference:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3216461/posts
Some compensation for a boatload of tourists cowering in their cabins, air conditioning turned off, eating seagulls and drinking bottled beer and rainwater.
That's what you get when you put IDIOTS in charge.
Reading John Heald’s (head cruise director) page this morning....$200.00 on board credit and a $50.00 off future cruise for each passenger. Carnival is taking a big hit, especially when this was no fault of their own. The Magic goes from Sun. to Sun. my husband and I were wondering about the debarkation process with this going on. That and the clean up, all because of the inept CDC. What a mess...
Yes, but the government doesn't care. Carnival didn't build that business.
Doubt you can sue the CDC. Nurse could be at risk. Don't know if Carnival uses a standardized health questionaire. This one is pretty specific about being in contact with a confirmed InfluenzaA(H1N1) case? If it were less specific than H1N1, for example being in contactact with someone displaying Fever or Feverishness, Cough, Runny Nose or Sore Throat I hope she answered Yes, she could have a problem. As she could if she were symptomatic.
0.01% x DEAD still equals DEAD.
Is that a risk you want to take? Don’t you want to do everything you can to make 0.01%.... as close to 0% as you can make it?
That doesn’t strike me as very generous. In any case I have to think whether necessary or not, clean up will meane this Sunday’s cruise won’t be leaving on time.
How many went to the State Fair and the TX OU game?
It’s the Love... *cough* *cough* boat... *vomit*
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