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kurisupisu
Haven’t the Japanese authorities learned anything about keeping people in cruise ships?
Obviously not...
Ah_so
How have the authorities lost crew members? Surely there were controls about who was getting off the boat.
mmwkdw
Today's Cruise Ships have been likened to Petri Dishes... I wonder whether people will now, still wish to book a Cruise around the World, as it's clearly not plain Sailing.
Tamarama
This is a pretty bad stuff up.
Not only do they have their own precedents for this, but there are plenty of examples of how other places have very successfully handled badly infected cruise ships in this pandemic. Clearly in this case they have not.
If I were a resident of Nagasaki, I'd be pretty irate.
kurisupisu
The Japanese seem not to want to discuss any type of outside entity regarding the pandemic.
Foreign cruise ships seem to fit this paradigm.
By not doing so, they seem to be repeating mistakes from their recent past.
The authorities here seem to expect that by staying home will end the problem.
Well, when hospitals all over Japan do not receive proper advice on preventing in situ viral contagion and do not train staff nor equip them with correct protective gear then the same old tune will get played again and again...
Gorramcowboy
Ok, can we just write that off? Really.
It ponders the question, why so many ppl aboard? And why is there a cruise ship still in operation? Dry dock or not.
Idiots to say the least and not worthy of adding to negativity that is the daily news.
Next.
memoryfix
Nobody would have handled it better, in hindsight.
And look at the EU’s bungling of the disease in Europe in early March.
1) Stop blaming.
2) Move forward in cooperation and support.
3) Unlock.
Open Minded
Japan is a Petri dish like everywhere in the world. This is why it is called a pandemic.
What the point of blaming or even discussing the situation of this ship?
Chubaka
If it can be shown that the crew violated quarantine (via security cameras or otherwise), Japan should ask that the crew be reduced or suspend the ship’s docking privileges. As it is, local firms doing the maintenance and repairs continue to be exposed to this growing breeding ground of Coronavirus.
Most of the ship’s crew could be sent back to their home origins, which are probably SE Asian nations like Indonesia and Philippines. This foreign ship’s personnel could needlessly tie up medical resources that are best used elsewhere in the prefecture. There can be no economic benefit worth keeping the status quo.