What's interesting is that U.S.-based cruise ships already have relatively stringent infection control protocols resulting from repeated outbreaks of gastrointestinal illness due to norovirus....
What's interesting is that U.S.-based cruise ships already have relatively stringent infection control protocols resulting from repeatedoutbreaks of gastrointestinal illness due to norovirus.
Unfortunately, there's just too much person-to-person contact in those cramped confines, and an airborne virus is going to be so dangerous that I think the advice is correct. A single infected person might have hundreds of proximate contacts. Considering that the prolonged stay on the Diamond Princess infected 700 of the 3,700 passengers, even with quarantine measures, cruising just doesn't seem sensible right now.
Of course, if all consumption activity that isn't sensible stops, the economy might collapse.
What's interesting is that U.S.-based cruise ships already have relatively stringent infection control protocols resulting from repeated outbreaks of gastrointestinal illness due to norovirus.
Unfortunately, there's just too much person-to-person contact in those cramped confines, and an airborne virus is going to be so dangerous that I think the advice is correct. A single infected person might have hundreds of proximate contacts. Considering that the prolonged stay on the Diamond Princess infected 700 of the 3,700 passengers, even with quarantine measures, cruising just doesn't seem sensible right now.
Of course, if all consumption activity that isn't sensible stops, the economy might collapse.