<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Due to how Cruise Ships produce fresh water, they have actually returned to the open ocean. I see little risk for them to spread the contagion further into Japan since they are currently on open ocean.<div><br></div><div>The guests are currently quarantined in their cabins, with food being delivered to their rooms by crew.</div><div><br></div><div>They will remain on open ocean for the 2 week period before retesting.</div><div><br></div><div>More worrying are the ports where they had previously stopped, rather than Yokohama. </div><div><br></div><div>I am personally more interested to the US numbers 2 weeks post-Super Bowl, and 2 weeks post-Valentines. <br><div><div><br><div dir="ltr">SR Ballard</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Feb 6, 2020, at 12:43 PM, John Clark via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 11:40 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>We just got a text from our friends who are nearly two days out to sea heading east back from a Hawaii vacation. The captain announced they are turning back and heading for Hawaii because one of the passengers has (an unspecified) medical emergency. </i></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="4">A passenger on the 116,000 ton cruise ship Diamond Princess tested positive for the Wuhan virus and now the ship is tied up in Yokohama Japan and 3700 people are under quarantine and not allowed to leave the ship.</font><br></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4"> John K Clark</font></div><div> </div></div></div></div>
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