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Coronavirus: How a misleading map went global

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The worrying thing is at the people from the Princess cruise ship got released, after being confined to tight quarters on that boat.

And everyday for 2 weeks, the confirmed infected count went higher and higher. And then, they released the people into the general public. Now, these people are spread out all over the world.

The Western governments blew it on this one. They should’ve evacuated the passengers immediately, and quarantined each one of them, separately, for 2 weeks, to confirm that they weren’t infected.

But, they can still save the situation, by forcing these people released to be quarantined for another 2 weeks.

I was under the assumption that the passengers were quarantined in their private quarters onboard.

Yes, but recent evidence indicates that the cruise ships are not safe for quarantine. It’s like they were all in the same cesspool, just waiting to get infected.

In theory, cruise ships should be pretty well suited for such purposes; industry experience with outbreaks (mostly norovirus I believe), private restroom in every cabin, probably top-notch central filtration on the AC, no more than two people in most cabins ... I wonder how the virus managed to spread so widely in such a short time under such conditions.

staff not quaranteed. Food carried down corridors without any covering from the air. Only ht food was covered with aluminium foil.

My understanding is that the crew was still preparing the food. With the outbreak, it's inevitable that one of the kitchen staff would catch it, and then everything coming out of that kitchen is contaminated.

Even worse than that: https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-c...

An excerpt:

Iwata said he saw people eating lunch with their medical gloves on, and handling their smartphones while wearing protective suits, “so it was completely chaotic."

Missed pun opportunity at went viral?

The BBC isn't likely to make puns about something so serious.

But The Times does, sorta. Though this is a lot less serious in topic than the BBC article https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/coronavirus-james-bo...

This is nothing close to serious. It's a media hype train that people lap up.

More people died from the flu last week than this virus has killed in months.

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