{"id":25870,"date":"2020-02-13T12:41:16","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T17:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/?p=25870"},"modified":"2020-02-07T21:50:14","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T02:50:14","slug":"cruise-ships-in-the-time-of-plague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/13\/cruise-ships-in-the-time-of-plague\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruise ships in the time of plague"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even if coronavirus isn&#8217;t a serious statistical risk from being on a cruise ship, I wonder if the public health response will trim the sails (so to speak) of the hitherto unstoppable industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Consider the passengers on the Diamond Princess in Japan. Best case for the healthy ones is to be stuck at the dock for 14 days, mostly in their tiny cabins. From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/02\/07\/803843303\/on-cruise-ship-quarantined-in-japan-any-new-cases-would-reset-the-isolation-cloc\">NPR<\/a>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>On the ship, passengers \u2014 including some who had already spent two weeks aboard the vessel before the quarantine doubled their stay \u2014 are told not to leave their rooms. They visit the deck in shifts, for a rare breath of fresh air.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But there could be days of quarantine after a scare, right? So if you book a cruise from Date X to Date Y you won&#8217;t have any guarantee of getting back to work, family, and other commitments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Does this prove the old adage that being on a boat is like being in prison, except that you can&#8217;t drown in prison?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Related:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/11-americans-aboard-cruise-ship-japan-infected-coronavirus\/story?id=68819290\">&#8220;Royal Caribbean bans all passengers with Chinese, Hong Kong or Macau passports&#8221;<\/a> (ABC; February 7): Royal Caribbean International announced that any of its passengers holding a Chinese, Hong Kong or Macau passport will not be allowed to board its cruise ships &#8220;regardless of when they were there last.&#8221; (should be plenty of last-minute rooms available for those with no fear of lockdown)<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even if coronavirus isn&#8217;t a serious statistical risk from being on a cruise ship, I wonder if the public health response will trim the sails (so to speak) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[42,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-travel-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - 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