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Old Nov 14, 2020, 9:09 pm
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jmastron
 
Join Date: Feb 2011
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Am I understanding right that they plan to release all of the "negative passengers" to fly home? That's recklessly insane. With the same tests that showed these passengers were supposedly "negative" twice before boarding? Until one wasn't. And then 7 (not even in the same family) weren't? These tests simply aren't 100% accurate, and at this point every single passenger needs to be fully isolated until time has passed and *everyone* has tested negative multiple times. That can happen on ship or in a locked quarantine facility at the port, but it really needs to happen. I sure hope the Barbados authorities aren't going to fall for the Ruby Princess/Hartigruten scheme where the ship rushes to disperse all the passengers before they are identifed as the spread vector, and if they do the airlines or destination border agencies will hopefully take action.

And yeah, the 3 guys huddled together to deliver whatever is an example of "pretending to care but missing the point" -- masks, especially surgical masks, go *with* social distancing, not instead of. Yes, there are times when crew may need to be in closer proximity, but food delivery can easily be done by one person in a hall, leaving it outside the door for the passenger to retrieve.
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