Passenger Aboard First Cruise Ship to Return to Sailing in Caribbean Tests positive for COVID-19

[Nevilledog]

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Passenger Aboard First Cruise Ship to Return to Sailing in Caribbean Tests Positive for COVID-19
Passengers and non-essential crew are now isolating in their cabins as the ship heads back toward its departure point in Barbados
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[Miguelito Loveless]

1. Because. WHO could have forseen?

[SharonClark]

2. Interesting story by a travel reporter on that cruise.

https://thepointsguy.com/news/caribbean-cruise-covid-scare-seadream/

The cruise line took lots of precautions but failed on common sense and understanding human nature.

[Midnightwalk]

3. Aren't cruise ships the natural habitat of corona viruses?

I think David Attenborough did a documentary on them a few years back. Didn’t he?

[Wounded Bear]

4. Every contagion loves when we gather large groups in closed settings...

Remember Legionaires Disease a few years back? Contagious viruses + large groups of people confined in close quarters = epidemic. It's rather logical.

[Midnightwalk]

5. Yep

But more than that. Cruise ships are notorious for outbreaks. I remember corona viruses being the specific cause in a number of then. Legionnaires too.

Logical but also that’s what the record says. It’s insane.

For clarity legionnaires is bacterial, but I think it likes air conditioning too. Maybe just wording

Also just in case, there was no such documentary, just a dumb joke because it seems so obvious a breeding ground.