He also prevented that cruise ship from docking in SAN Francisco.
LIE-beral govt HAS UTTERLY FAILED to do ANYTHING USEFUL about cruise ship passengers!
Here is an article illustrating how POORLY LIE-berals have been handling the mass of travellers on cruise ships during the Wuahn Virus Mess! With some comments of my own in brackets):
‘God Knows How Many People We Infected’: New Protocols Aim to Get Cruise Passengers Home
By Frances Robles The New York Times
Published March 27, 2020
The authorities evacuated nearly 2,000 asymptomatic people from the Grand Princess cruise ship when it was docked in Oakland, Calif.
(The Uniteed States is philosophically unprepared to deal with a Pandemic! For Yankees - health care is a PERSONAL MATTER with no govt intervention desired!
In fact most Yankees are convinced that getting govt involved will WEAKEN the quality of their care - thus they are paralysed when confronted by infected groups!)
KEY WEST, Fla. — Days after a harrowing journey to escape a trans-Atlantic cruise where two passengers came down with fatal cases of Covid-19, Jim Nevis is back home in Arizona, fighting the virus in a hospital intensive care unit.
A Canadian family evacuated from the same Italian ship, the Costa Luminosa, travelled through three airports to get home to Victoria, B.C., only to learn that all five of them were infected.
(Yes - Cdns with their generally more effective cooperative group mind set on health care AT HOME are also paralysed by medical issues occurring OUTSIDE the country! LIE-berals are TOO CHEAP to deal with medical threats until they are AT OUR DOOR! How FOOLISH that LIE-berals have been SO DEADLY CARELESS about air travellers wandering unchecked through travel hubs - while jammed in disease sharing groups at customs booths and baggage carousels!)
Michelle Saunders, who was on the Grand Princess when it docked March 9 in Oakland, Calif., was quarantined on an Air Force base in Georgia, then released two days early with a warning that she and the others could still become ill, and possibly make others sick, too
(Yes- there is new evidence that the gestation period for Wuhan Virus VARIES from as little as 3 days up to 3 weeks - apparently due to issues related to personal health and possibility of several VARIANTS of the Virus being spread! Thus a 2 week quarantine may not even be enough to protect us!)
Passengers from the Costa Luminosa arrived at the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta last week.
(One has to think passengers should be landing at military bases rather than public air ports! Our idiot Boy Justin had the right idea in sending some Cdn travellers coming from China - into quarantine at the Trenton, Ont military base! Too bad Our idiot Boy has decided he does not wish to waste HIS GRAVY playing host to sick people and has thrown responsibility back on the provinces - who DO NOT have the same ability as Ottawa to handle the sick until AFTER they get through federal customs and arrive home after infecting passersby on their way home!)
Then on Friday, Holland America Line announced that four passengers had died aboard its cruise ship, the Zaandam, after it was refused entry into Chile nearly two weeks ago. The ship, with 53 passengers and 85 crew members aboard displaying symptoms of the coronavirus, is now awaiting permission to transit the Panama Canal and sail on to Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
What would happen to the passengers if they reached Florida was far from clear.
With at least 18 cruise ships still at sea and making their way to shore in the coming days, state and federal authorities have yet to establish a cohesive strategy for evacuating ships and repatriating passengers around the world without exposing them and others to more disease.
(All govts seem to be paralysed by this issue of dealing with infected passengers and crew! Govt seems more focussed on WHO PAYS THE BILLS than on preventing further spread of Wuhan Pestilence! In the very early stages - Our idiot Boy was heard to publicly ask: “who was going to pay the medical bills for Cdns returning home from China”! Subsequently the idiot Boy put up nearly 400 Cdn travellers in quarantine at the Trenton base - and once they were “cured” - LIE-berals then dumped responsibility for all other travellers back on the provinces and of course these travellers are now responsible for virtually ALL our current infection rates!)
Passengers who were either sick or possibly exposed to the virus were in some cases put on buses and planes, endangering others. Quarantine procedures for evacuees were sometimes contradictory and confusing, as the problems of holding passengers in isolation after they returned from their trips became almost as substantial as the danger of letting them go.
(Yankees are being FORCED to re-think their sense of individual responsibility during a Pandemic - how SAD that Cdn LIE-berals are FAILING SO BADLY to step up and do their own jobs - inspite of our history of public care! But the various FAILINGS do NOT prevent LIE-berals from bravely virtue signalling with empty platitudes!)
“The evacuation definitely helped sicken people and definitely helped spread the disease,” said Paul B. Turner, a golf club professional in Wisconsin who was aboard the Costa Luminosa.
(This same issue - of a cruise ship crowded with passengers and crew being a COMPLETELY UNSUITABLE place to quarantine people should be common knowledge by now! Such crowded conditions ENSURE that people will keep infecting each other! Only a military base offers the sort of room needed and ability to segregate the sick from the others!)
The ship, which set out from Fort Lauderdale bound for Venice, Italy, tried to dock at several ports before unloading in Marseille, France, on March 19. Mr. Turner and the other Americans and Canadians on board flew to Atlanta, then made their way to their home destinations.
(It is understandable that local authorities who are already overwhelmed by their own sick citizens would not wish to accept responsibility for foreigners! This is yet another LIE-beral care FAILING! Letting sick people drift around like that is murderously careless!)
While U.S. health authorities took great pains to sequester passengers from affected cruise ships in the early days of the outbreak, the C.D.C. in recent days has allowed hundreds of exposed and ill cruise passengers to travel on commercial flights across the country, potentially jeopardizing everyone from flight attendants to airport restaurant workers, to unwitting fellow passengers.
(Yes - LIE-beral politicians seem to have given up the fight and resigned themselves to watching as the Pandemic unfolds!)
The reason, C.D.C. officials said, is that the outbreak has entered a “new phase” in which so many people are returning from countries affected by the virus that the priority is to get evacuated passengers home quickly, where they can self-isolate.
(Yet people ARE NOT effectively self isolating! They need to go out for food and to the bank for cash and etc! Voluntary self isolation is a FAILURE!)
“We are at a different stage of a pandemic,” said Benjamin Haynes, a C.D.C. spokesman. “We are doing our best to not allow sick people to get on commercial airlines. But we also have an urgency to return well travelers home as quickly as possible.”
(In other words - IT WOULD HAVE BEEN BEST to quarantine passengers IN PLACE in whatever country their ship docked in - before letting them travel home - but LIE-berals do not wish to pay for that! And as the number of infected rises thanks to returning travellers - it is CLEAR that letting returning travellers ride PUBLIC TRANSIT or go shopping for food is a bad idea- which is why Cdn LIE- berals just now ordered travellers to take PRIVATE CARS home from the airport - in that way only their own families will face infection risks!)
William R. Burke, the chief maritime officer for Carnival Corp., which operates more than 100 cruise vessels around the world, said companies are facing suddenly closed ports, or countries that have abruptly imposed new border rules in response to the coronavirus.
(One is inclined to wonder if it would have been best for the cruise lines to SAIL their passengers back to their home countries rather than trying to dump them on unwilling local host port lands? We should even consider that cruise ships should rendezvous and SWAP passengers so that each vessel can carry as many people of one single nationality home as possible - thus also minimizing the number of different country destination stops for each ship?)
“This week the rules are different than they were a week ago,” Mr. Burke said. “We learned a lot about how to do this, good and bad. I wish I had learned from somebody else doing it.”
Passengers who were part of the chaotic scramble over the past 10 days, under rules that allowed many passengers to navigate their own way home, said that even people who were coughing and clearly sick were packed into buses and planes.
Mr. Nevis, who flew from Atlanta to Phoenix, learned this week that he had Covid-19.
(Living conditions for ships crews ARE IDEAL for spreading a Pandemic - thus getting EVERYBODY off the ships as quickly as possible and fully quarantining passengers AND crew is a clear and logical solution! They can be sent home much more safely AFTER getting through the quarantine period!)
“We were lepers — roaming freely,” said Jane M. Kennedy, who flew to Idaho after sailing on the Costa Luminosa. “God knows how many people we infected.”
(True dat! And public awareness of and anger at the FAILURES is growing!)
James Walker, a lawyer who files lawsuits against cruise companies, said the federal authorities still lack a plan for how to get people home safely.
“I don’t think the C.D.C. has protocols in place,” Mr. Walker said. “Everyone is scrambling around trying to figure things out. It seems to me kind of a Mad Hatter type of environment; no one who is in charge, no one who is taking the lead.”
(CDC clearly has NO MANDATE for handling issues in foreign lands! CDC focus is on LOCAL issues at home! Handling travellers is a GOVT job - that they failed!)