Calm down. There’s no reason to board the cruise ships if the neighboring Islands won’t allow them to land there. Over half the island is in the zones where risk is not severe enough to evacuate. There’s no need to evacuate the entire island. It is a gross exaggeration that this is a take the vaccine or face death situation. BTW, it would take weeks for the vaccines to become effective so it’s rather silly to think they could vaccinate those boarding the ships.
How much did you sell your soul for?
It’s not an exaggeration that they are leaving non-vaccinated behind to do the best they can.
20,000 people — no power, no water (housing, sanitation, and food?) ... right, no big deal.
In the severe 1902 eruption most of the deaths occured near the volcano. The rest fled south to the Kingston area. In 1902 the massive death occured from a pyroclastic flow from Pelee’s huge eruption on Martinique. It was no more than 5 miles away, but the govt. refused to encourage/permit evacuation because a controversial election was about to be held. The governor who made this mistake died most horribly. There had been weeks of preliminary eruptions and at least 50 had already died when giant poison centipedes or millipedes (forget which) and poisen snakes fled into the city. Below is a recent link with video and photos.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-56713564