The Grand Princess

[SmokyMose]

The school district that shut down outside of Sacramento was the Elk Grove Unified, right where we moved from eight months ago.

My friend and his wife will get off the ship today and be quarantined at Travis AFB in Fairfield. From him this morning:

"at 6 am, we got a bagel with a half teaspoon of jelly with salami.
who wants salami for breakfast ? stinking up the room....yuck"

Sounds like they're running out of food.

 

[schlotz]

An elementary school In Avon, IN (about 10 miles from me) had a student test positive a couple of days ago. No details about where he or she contracted it. They not only closed that school but all the schools in Avon until the end of March or early April.....

Yup, looks like someone in our Avon community got it. Who knows how, being in the heartland of Indiana, but it happened. Let's hope the parents are SMARTER than that one family in Minn (?) who were on house quarantine yet the father decided to go ahead and take his daughter to the school's father daughter dance. This shows you how stupid people can be. #tryingtostaysafe here in Avon.

 

[noboundaries]

Sounds like they're running out of food.

Yep. Several years ago I watched a show about how mega cruise ships function. They have ports where they restock their planned menu for a specific period of time for the number of guests and crew members. When I heard about the offshore delay of the Grand Princess, I knew food would become an issue.

As far as bagels and salami for breakfast, that took me back to 6 1/2 weeks I once spent on a foreign exchange cruise with the Japanese navy. There are many cultures that make no distinction between the type of food served at breakfast from other meals. I found that liberating and can eat anything for breakfast. Had a Kettle fried pork chop with applesauce this morning. A bagel and salami? No problem.

The community right next to mine, and where I grocery shop, is dealing with 6 current Covid-19 cases that resulted from the poor man who died after leaving the Grand Princess. They are all quarantined.

 

[Bearcarver]

I'm glad this didn't happen years ago, when My Brother's Youngest Daughter was a Dancer on a Cruise Ship, running between CA and Alaska. She did that for a few years, then Danced at Bush Gardens for a couple more. Now she has her own Dance Studio, in Pennsburg, PA.
Mrs Bear did her books, until she got the Business running Smoothly.

Bear

 

[SmokyMose]

Yup, looks like someone in our Avon community got it. Who knows how, being in the heartland of Indiana, but it happened. Let's hope the parents are SMARTER than that one family in Minn (?) who were on house quarantine yet the father decided to go ahead and take his daughter to the school's father daughter dance. This shows you how stupid people can be. #tryingtostaysafe here in Avon.

And Avon is one of the busiest shopping areas in the Metro area....

 

[SmokyMose]

I just made a trip to our Walmart to get the last things we need to Shelter In Place and
the toilet paper isle was empty, so was the alcohol isle in the Pharmacy area.

I was at Target yesterday picking up meds for the Mrs and someone asked the pharmacist where the rubbing alcohol was and she told him they were out of it.
I never thought about t.p. We'll be ok for a few weeks...
What the heck is going on? Toilet Paper?

 

[noboundaries]

SHRAY, any update from your friends?

 

[sawhorseray]

SHRAY, any update from your friends?

Nothing immediately. Earlier today my friend and his wife were hoping this would be the day, knowing that for some reason they were going to be amongst the last to leave. He emailed and said he was tracking they were unloading 50 passengers per hour, a far cry from the 3-day projection of having everyone off the boat. He states the food is garbage, and supplied by some commercial catering company that restocks cruise ships. To say they are unhappy, even with the promise of total reimbursement, would be a HUGE understatement. He's a fairly influential man, and sounds like he's going to reach far and wide. RAY

 

[Fueling Around]

Yeah, about the same numbers here in Indiana for "domestic" flu, and it's been about the same every year but no panic. I read the other day that the Spanish Influenza killed well over a half million in the U.S. during WW1. Influenza of any "strain" is potentially fatal and always has been.
We just observe the same precautions we always do.

Majority of the people that died during the 1918-1919 pandemic wasn't from flu virus. It was the secondary bacterial infection that results in pneumonia.
Antibiotics didn't come around until the 1930's.

 

[noboundaries]

To say they are unhappy, even with the promise of total reimbursement, would be a HUGE understatement. He's a fairly influential man, and sounds like he's going to reach far and wide. RAY

Understood. I read today there's already a $1mil lawsuit filed by a couple for failure by the cruise line to ensure passenger safety.

I hope your friend and his wife are disembarked soon, even though it's out of one quarantine into another. "This too, will pass."

 

[6GRILLZNTN]

Seven cases here in TN ( so far). Four in the county that borders mine (yikes). Vanderbilt closed, Williamson County schools closed.

 

[sawhorseray]

Seven cases here in TN ( so far). Four in the county that borders mine (yikes). Vanderbilt closed, Williamson County schools closed.

This is just getting started. The original forecasts from the CDC were for the number of cases to double every six days, for how long no one knows, until it runs it's course I'd guess. I'm just reading this morning that the confirmed cases of coronavirus in the USA has surpassed 1000. Remember what the total was a week ago?The coronavirus kills 3-3.5 people out of every 100 who get it. The good old fashioned flu kills 1 out of 1000. Millions and millions of people could die, that's the way a pandemic works, nobody is ready for it. I remember watching the movie "Outbreak" where it starts off with a guy sneezing in a crowded movie theatre and you follow the germs that escape down into other people lungs, Netflix is delivering it to our house this week, we thought it would be fitting to see it again now. So if coronavirus incubates for 5-6 days like the CDC is saying, and some guy goes to a casino and gets it from a dealer at a card table, how many folks will he infect before he ever realizes he's got it? The beat goes on.

My friend and his wife are still on the ship, maybe today will be the day. He thought it was kind of ironic they were sequestered in their cabins and told to stay away from others, now they are being herded like cattle down the gangplank and loaded onto buses. RAY

 

[6GRILLZNTN]

This is just getting started. The original forecasts from the CDC were for the number of cases to double every six days, for how long no one knows, until it runs it's course I'd guess. I'm just reading this morning that the confirmed cases of coronavirus in the USA has surpassed 1000. Remember what the total was a week ago?The coronavirus kills 3-3.5 people out of every 100 who get it. The good old fashioned flu kills 1 out of 1000. Millions and millions of people could die, that's the way a pandemic works, nobody is ready for it. I remember watching the movie "Outbreak" where it starts off with a guy sneezing in a crowded movie theatre and you follow the germs that escape down into other people lungs, Netflix is delivering it to our house this week, we thought it would be fitting to see it again now. So if coronavirus incubates for 5-6 days like the CDC is saying, and some guy goes to a casino and gets it from a dealer at a card table, how many folks will he infect before he ever realizes he's got it? The beat goes on.

My friend and his wife are still on the ship, maybe today will be the day. He thought it was kind of ironic they were sequestered in their cabins and told to stay away from others, now they are being herded like cattle down the gangplank and loaded onto buses. RAY

I saw a picture of the lines off the ship. People stacked like cordwood. Talk about ironic, I just watched "Outbreak" about a week ago.

 

[Bearcarver]

So if coronavirus incubates for 5-6 days like the CDC is saying, and some guy goes to a casino and gets it from a dealer at a card table, how many folks will he infect before he ever realizes he's got it? The beat goes on.

RAY

Especially when it takes many weeks to get the Test Kits out there!!
How many people have it? Who Knows??

Bear

 

[sawhorseray]

Exactly Bear! When a million people have it, there will be two million 5-6 days later, with what, 30K dead, then 60K. It's going to be interesting to see how they are going to handle March Madness, the NBA playoffs, and the opening of baseball season. My wife just got off the phone with a old friend who lives in Texas. Two weeks ago this old friend and her sisters rented a house on a island near Seattle and they all went to celebrate her mother's 80th birthday. They spent a night at a casino and went out to dinner a few times, flew back to Texas with one sister going to Boston about a week ago. Now Mama is sick! Imagine how many folks they came into contact with, and on and on and on. RAY

 

[chopsaw]

Let's hope the parents are SMARTER than that one family in Minn (?) who were on house quarantine yet the father decided to go ahead and take his daughter to the school's father daughter dance.

That was here . The older sister came home from Italy . Then tested positive on Saturday . Family was told to stay at home . The Dad takes the younger sister to the school dance same day he was told to stay home . Dance was held at a hotel banquet center , but now that school is / was closed . My daughter teaches at a private school and has kids that have older siblings that go to the school that was closed , but luckily none of those went to the dance .

 

[sawhorseray]

I figured that was the case near you when I read about it Rich. The guy claims he was never told to quarantine the family. He most likely was told, just not in writing, and the idiot is not only stupid, he's also a liar! The old lady in Texas wasn't tested for coronavirus, the doc just wanted to know what foreign county she might have been to. The former head of the FDA says things are going to get real bad over the next 2-3 weeks, that could be a real understatement. We are in complete lockdown. RAY

 

[Bearcarver]

I figured that was the case near you when I read about it Rich. The guy claims he was never told to quarantine the family. He most likely was told, just not in writing, and the idiot is not only stupid, he's also a liar! The old lady in Texas wasn't tested for coronavirus, the doc just wanted to know what foreign county she might have been to. The former head of the FDA says things are going to get real bad over the next 2-3 weeks, that could be a real understatement. We are in complete lockdown. RAY

This is what happens when your leaders say it's all a hoax, and overblown by the media.
The dead people are probably actors.

Bear

 

[chopsaw]

The guy claims he was never told to quarantine the family.

B.S.
Last I saw , they're watching this pretty close . He might have a problem he didn't think about .

 

[cmayna]

We're ready !!