sportchampps wrote:

Does anyone else think letting the passengers off the ship seems like a bad idea. 

First off, who visits a landfill to birdwatch while on a cruise, WTF kind of "excursion" is that?

I mean, how do they let the original mans wife just fly home? She collapsed and died at the airport after being on a plane (I think I read it that way).

And yes, its a bad idea to let anyone off until it is proven no one else on the ship has it. transport supplies as needed.

jmog wrote:

First off, who visits a landfill to birdwatch while on a cruise, WTF kind of "excursion" is that?

I mean, how do they let the original mans wife just fly home? She collapsed and died at the airport after being on a plane (I think I read it that way).

And yes, its a bad idea to let anyone off until it is proven no one else on the ship has it. transport supplies as needed.

Yeah the whole story seems crazy and we have now seen cases in Switzerland and France I think 

sportchampps wrote:

Yeah the whole story seems crazy and we have now seen cases in Switzerland and France I think 

Visiting a landfill while on a cruise sounds about as "dumb" as the "bat from a wet market" story. But I hate being a conspiracy advocate.

jmog wrote:

Visiting a landfill while on a cruise sounds about as "dumb" as the "bat from a wet market" story. But I hate being a conspiracy advocate.

I don't know.  Bird watchers seem a bit whacky, and I could totally see going to a landfill to catch a glimpse of an elusive bird you've been trying to check off.

Otherwise, I don't know how people aren't quarantined for 2 weeks of whatever.   They seem a little dismissive that human-to-human transmission has been rare, but what if it's mutated?  Even if it's not an "outbreak",  you're still exposing people to a non-zero chance of catching this and it's 40% fatal (compared to Covid, which in it's worst days was probably less than 0.5% fatal).

gut wrote:

I don't know.  Bird watchers seem a bit whacky, and I could totally see going to a landfill to catch a glimpse of an elusive bird you've been trying to check off.

Otherwise, I don't know how people aren't quarantined for 2 weeks of whatever.   They seem a little dismissive that human-to-human transmission has been rare, but what if it's mutated?  Even if it's not an "outbreak",  you're still exposing people to a non-zero chance of catching this and it's 40% fatal (compared to Covid, which in it's worst days was probably less than 0.5% fatal).

Apparently the version they have (starts with an A) is transmissible between humans.  So way woese than “non-zero”