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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,192 posts) Sun Mar 15, 2020, 08:36 PM Mar 2020

More than 3,800 passengers on a cruise ship disembarked in Miami without screening for COVID-19

despite a previous traveler testing positive days earlier

More than 3,800 passengers disembarked from a cruise ship in Miami on Sunday without any type of screening for illness or potential coronavirus infections, the Miami Herald reported Sunday.

"When I say there was no check, there was none whatsoever," one passenger told the Herald. "I expected us to have some kind of a screening. They didn't do a single thing. We walked straight off the ship. There wasn't any check on anyone for anything."

A previous passenger on that same ship, the MSC Meraviglia, disembarked on March 8 and subsequently tested positive for COVID-19.

MSC told the Herald it "followed all protocols as required" and had been cleared to dock and disembark as normal by US health authorities.

https://news.yahoo.com/more-3-800-passengers-cruise-203139303.html

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More than 3,800 passengers on a cruise ship disembarked in Miami without screening for COVID-19 (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2020 OP

Maybe they can stay at Maro Loco doc03 Mar 2020 #1

WTF? Bettie Mar 2020 #2

Quick!...give them a ride to Mar-a-Lago stillcool Mar 2020 #3

If USCIS/ICE cared 1% about this rather than then implementing Trump DonaldsRump Mar 2020 #4

Don't think 3800 test kits were available in Miami at140 Mar 2020 #5

Each kit is good for about 500 tests. Totally Tunsie Mar 2020 #6

Oh ok, so what was the excuse for not doing any? at140 Mar 2020 #8

Don't ask me...not my call! Totally Tunsie Mar 2020 #9

Way ta go Floriduh! poli-junkie Mar 2020 #7

Way to go Trump/Pence. keithbvadu2 Mar 2020 #11

Just damn ... uponit7771 Mar 2020 #10

What. The. Fck? mcar Mar 2020 #12

doc03

(35,364 posts)

1. Maybe they can stay at Maro Loco

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sun Mar 15, 2020, 08:38 PM

Mar 2020

Bettie

(16,124 posts)

2. WTF?

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sun Mar 15, 2020, 08:39 PM

Mar 2020

I guess people really are that fucking stupid.

stillcool

(32,626 posts)

3. Quick!...give them a ride to Mar-a-Lago

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sun Mar 15, 2020, 08:40 PM

Mar 2020

DonaldsRump

(7,715 posts)

4. If USCIS/ICE cared 1% about this rather than then implementing Trump

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sun Mar 15, 2020, 08:40 PM

Mar 2020

and his overtly racist policies, we would be far better off.

THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN TESTING BACK IN JANUARY OR FEBRUARY. Period. End of discussion. That was criminally negligent and these agencies, plus DHS and Health, are TOTALLY to blame.

The lack of testing and total lying about it even today is criminal.

at140

(6,110 posts)

5. Don't think 3800 test kits were available in Miami

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sun Mar 15, 2020, 08:40 PM

Mar 2020

but the port authorities in Miami should have at least taken forehead temperatures.

Totally Tunsie

(10,885 posts)

6. Each kit is good for about 500 tests.

Reply to at140 (Reply #5)

Sun Mar 15, 2020, 09:06 PM

Mar 2020

They'd need only 8 kits to test the 3,800.

at140

(6,110 posts)

8. Oh ok, so what was the excuse for not doing any?

Reply to Totally Tunsie (Reply #6)

Sun Mar 15, 2020, 09:10 PM

Mar 2020

Most people infected with covid-19 show fever, so taking forehead temp with electronic device is quick,
and there is limit on how many. Some countries are doing exactly that with flights arriving from affected areas.