PING!
so the experiment worked but its not a bioweapon at all
The headline makes it sound worse than it really is.
It’s not ‘most of the Americans who got evacuated’, it’s ‘most of the 14 Americans that had already tested positive or that they already strongly suspected had the virus’.
So there’s no real news here. Just confirmation of what was already thought.
Did anyone expect anything different. All of the air was cycled through a central heating and cooling system.
It is not every day that you see “Omaha” and “Cruise Ship” in the same headline.
Why would anyone want to go on a cruise after this whole fiasco!!!!!
Yeah but I’ll bet the food was better on the ship.
HOW CHEAP is Cruising going to get!?
News or not, problem is >= 11 people have Coronavirus ... in the USA.
At the observed R0 & terminal rates, we’re in for a big problem if just 1 of them “gets out”.
A cruise ship is the worst place in an epidemic. It is a perfect incubator for infectious diseases. There is no avoiding breathing other peoples’ air and sharing space with them.
An airplane is just as bad. Or worse. You have to stay in the plane until it lands. If you brought along your own air mask, and a box of depends, you might just make it.
In an epidemic, all cruise sailings can be stopped, if their country of registry agrees. But stopping air travel will eventually affect peoples’ ability to earn a living. Governments could mandate some kind of air filtering system to replace the germ-and-virus-sharing system that we have now. But the airlines would yell and scream and it would never happen.
I actually want to know every detail of the lifestyles of the two who tested negative!
Floating Petri dish. They should have been quarantined at Adak. *sigh* Don't say we didn't warn you.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.
If just ONE person standing at the bow of the ship sneezes, then within a few days everyone is sharing the germs.
The same goes for airplanes but 100x worse as its a sealed enclosed vessel!
“Most of the Americans monitored at the University of Nebraska Medical Center...”
Now they’ll all get sick.
Two more of the “ uninfected” tested positive today. So I guess that resets the quarantine clock for everyone they flew with on Monday
So now it is all over Camp Ashland.
Right were my friends and family are.
I tend to side with the CDC. They should have NEVER been allowed back in the mainland US till after quarantine. Let along dropped in an airplane and flown to the middle of the continent.
Going to be an interesting next few weeks.
Where did the rest of them go?
This would not have happened if Captain Stubing was around.
https://tinyurl.com/sczju3x