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Sixty more people confirmed with coronavirus on cruise ship in Japan - TBS TV
National Post ^ | 02/10/2020 | Reuters

Posted on 02/09/2020 9:33:59 PM PST by SpeedyInTexas

Testing aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan has found 60 more confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus, domestic broadcaster TBS TV said via Twitter.

That brings total cases on the ship docked in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, to 130, according to TBS. The liner was placed on a two-week quarantine on arriving at Yokohama on Feb. 3.

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalpost.com ...


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KEYWORDS: coronavirus; cruiseship; diamondprincess
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To: Equine1952

I guess 1 every 13 days would tend to get on your nerves after awhile! But government knows best.


41 posted on 02/09/2020 10:25:37 PM PST by Karl Spooner
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To: 21twelve

Even that might be wishful thinking. Those people will need Psychiatric care, too. They are already going a little nuts.


42 posted on 02/09/2020 10:30:23 PM PST by Karl Spooner
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To: VanShuyten

“I think we can get a good idea of the real infection and mortality rates, now that they’re in a first-world country and not the lying, third-world Communist China.”

I think Westernized countries will handle things better - containment, treatment and eventually a vaccine or cure - than the Chinese who are more preoccupied with saving face than saving lives.

The vast majority of the reported fatalities have been in the Wu Han region (Hubei Province, but probably Wu Han itself) where the mortality rate is above 30% (871 deaths, 1795 recovered). There have been few deaths anywhere else (39 other deaths; 37 in China proper, 1 in Hong Kong and 1 in the Philippines).

So far no deaths in a country with modern robust medical infrastructure.

It’s early, yet, for the rest of the world. This thing had a month or more to run free in Wu Han and the rest of China before people in the rest of the world started to pay real attention (”it’s just the flu”, yeah, right).

The next couple of weeks should show us how this is going to go outside of China. Regardless of how well the rest of the world deals with it, I think it’s too late for China and this thing is going to wreak havoc there for a while until it burns itself out (I pray that I am wrong on that point).

I wouldn’t go to Central/South America or Africa for a while, either. We don’t know what’s happening there and I doubt they would recognize it there early enough to take effective measures.


43 posted on 02/09/2020 10:32:35 PM PST by calenel (The Democratic Party is a Criminal Enterprise. It is the Progressive Mafia.)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

Several thousand.

Japan is an archipelago of how many islands?

Even a small uninhabited island set up with a isolation camp would probably offer better conditions than are being experienced aboard the cruise ship.


44 posted on 02/09/2020 10:40:17 PM PST by Captain Rhino (Determined effort today forges tomorrow.)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

Several thousand.

Japan is an archipelago of how many islands?

Even a small uninhabited island set up with a isolation camp would probably offer better conditions than are being experienced aboard the cruise ship.


45 posted on 02/09/2020 10:42:00 PM PST by Captain Rhino (Determined effort today forges tomorrow.)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Now this is what I call “cabin fever”


46 posted on 02/09/2020 10:46:45 PM PST by vespa300
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To: SpeedyInTexas

(New England Journal of Medicine - NEJM, 2004) Evidence of Airborne Transmission of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Virus

“...Residents of the floors at the middle and upper levels in building E were at a significantly higher risk than residents on lower floors; this finding is consistent with a rising plume of contaminated warm air in the air shaft generated from a middle-level apartment unit....”

https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa032867


47 posted on 02/09/2020 10:47:32 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Bad


48 posted on 02/09/2020 10:47:57 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Time to up our FR Monthlies by 5-10%. You'll < hardly miss it and it will help.)
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To: Karl Spooner

There was a youtube of some British couple and they seemed to be doing okay, but they had a nice large state room with a balcony. Showing off the bathroom. “And here’s the fancy Japanese toilet with all the various spray features. It’s the main entertainment for us at the moment.”

The man said something like “Our early cruises we had inside berths. Small, no windows. I can’t imagine being stuck in one for even a day - much less an extended time.”


49 posted on 02/09/2020 10:57:14 PM PST by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Getting 3,700 hundred people off a ship into single isolation rooms would be a massive task. Most hospitals only have a relatively few isolation rooms.

I honestly don’t know how they would facilitate a task like this.


50 posted on 02/09/2020 10:59:05 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Time to up our FR Monthlies by 5-10%. You'll < hardly miss it and it will help.)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

I swear if I ever see an Antifa rally I’m going spread the idea through the crowd that they’re wearing masks because they have the Coronavirus. Then say that I’m getting out of there before they give it to me.


51 posted on 02/09/2020 11:04:35 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: 21twelve

One way or another, I don’t think that cruise ship will have very many repeat customers.


52 posted on 02/09/2020 11:09:38 PM PST by Karl Spooner
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To: Karl Spooner

i was just thinking that most likely the ship will need to be scrapped or at least renamed and sent to another part of the planet if this ever ends..


53 posted on 02/09/2020 11:21:17 PM PST by mowowie
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To: lightman

Well they let the people on that cruise ship dock 20 minutes from my house in Bayonne.

I had no problem with them being stuck at sea.

Better than the thousands that might die from releasing those who they THINK aren’t infected.

In this case, yeah one culture was more than equal.

They did the smart thing


54 posted on 02/09/2020 11:23:31 PM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point finger at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to makne ends meet)
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To: SpeedyInTexas
On the Johns Hopkins Virus Map, those people on the ship are not considered to be in Japan. They are included on the country list as "Others."
55 posted on 02/09/2020 11:28:32 PM PST by UnwashedPeasant (Trump is solving the world's problems only to distract us from Russia.)
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To: Captain Rhino
Even a small uninhabited island set up with a isolation camp would probably offer better conditions than are being experienced aboard the cruise ship.

An old TB clinic-isolation colony. circa 1909

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TB Tent Colonies

56 posted on 02/09/2020 11:32:49 PM PST by Karl Spooner
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To: irishjuggler

That’s what they are supposed to do by international treaty. Plague ships are to be given safe harbor and supplies, but they are to be quarantined until the disease passes one way or the other.


57 posted on 02/09/2020 11:36:05 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: mowowie

It’s definitely cursed forever more as is, that’s for sure.


58 posted on 02/09/2020 11:38:09 PM PST by Karl Spooner
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To: irishjuggler

“Seems like the Japanese are treating the ship as isolation... which is very unfortunate for the as-yet uninfected on board”

They might as well scuttle that ship when it’s all said and done. What fool would book passage on it?


59 posted on 02/10/2020 1:48:03 AM PST by DAC21 ( and Naflet)
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To: PghBaldy

160/3700 = 3.5% . I wonder if that’s a low or high rate of transfer? (just sticking with person-to-person contact and ignoring AC) ? If it’s P2P will the %% go down as the sick are removed? If it’s AC-driven, will it go up no matter how many are removed?


60 posted on 02/10/2020 2:07:12 AM PST by blueplum ( ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017))
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