Question for any medical experts…if this virus is transmitted by disturbing rodent excrement/urine, or at worse through extremely close contact between infected people, why is every country so scared to even let it dock? I get that they’d want to investigate/disinfect the ship and its passengers before letting everyone off, but refusing docking seems like a bit of an extreme measure all things considered?
minobi on
At this point every country needs epidemic specialists operation group who can take over similar cases to isolated people and keep them safe at the same time. I feel like we are not far from middle age doctors who burned villages to stop plague.
roarti on
I don’t understand why the ship didn’t just turn around to Argentina where it departed. In parts of Argentina the virus is endemic anyway. There it wouldn’t matter if an infested rat sneaks on land.
That-Advance-9619 on
Our president did something good????!
slackrse on
Voyage of the damned
Typingdude3 on
It’s a Dutch flagged ship owned by a Dutch expedition company. Why not dock it in Amsterdam? They need to step up and own this.
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Can’t really blame them tbh. Nobody wants to be the port that accepts a disease ship.
Why does Spain always end up in the middle of EVERY pandemic? I can already see it—it’ll be called the Spanish disease
Those poor people on the ship. With strict protocols it can be properly contained.
A passenger who was on the ship in April is sick in hospital in Switzerland.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy592qeq071t
Question for any medical experts…if this virus is transmitted by disturbing rodent excrement/urine, or at worse through extremely close contact between infected people, why is every country so scared to even let it dock? I get that they’d want to investigate/disinfect the ship and its passengers before letting everyone off, but refusing docking seems like a bit of an extreme measure all things considered?
At this point every country needs epidemic specialists operation group who can take over similar cases to isolated people and keep them safe at the same time. I feel like we are not far from middle age doctors who burned villages to stop plague.
I don’t understand why the ship didn’t just turn around to Argentina where it departed. In parts of Argentina the virus is endemic anyway. There it wouldn’t matter if an infested rat sneaks on land.
Our president did something good????!
Voyage of the damned
It’s a Dutch flagged ship owned by a Dutch expedition company. Why not dock it in Amsterdam? They need to step up and own this.