2,300 cruise passengers including dozens of Britons are ordered back on board their ship off of Greece and told not to leave after it is revealed former passenger has coronavirus

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8074709/2-000-passengers-kept-cruise-liner-latest-coronavirus-scare.html?ito=push-notification&ci=9077&si=489689
Published: Mar 4, 2020
Author: Chris Martenson
Post Date: 2020-03-04 17:04:42 by Horse
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Cruise ship passengers were kept on an ocean liner in yet another coronavirus scare at sea today after a former shipmate tested positive in Italy.

Some 2,300 people - including 39 Britons - were called back on board the MSC Opera from an excursion in Athens today and told not to leave the ship.

Once they returned, the captain revealed that an Austrian tourist who left the ship on February 28 had been infected with the virus.

The virus patient, a man, had disembarked in Genoa in northern Italy, the region at the centre of the coronavirus outbreak in Europe.

Poster Comment:

The makings of a great movie if it had been made in 2019 and released two weeks ago.

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#1: Lod    To: Horse (#0)

Hard to believe that anyone's still cruising at all.

Lod posted on 2020-03-04 17:21:53   Reply   Private Reply

#2: Horse    To: BTP Holdings, Lod, Ada (#1)

A great comedy skit. A take off on Michael Caine's movie The Wrong Box. A cruise ship salesman wins a prize for booking solid a cruise on the Diamond Princess despite the mandatory health minister's warning that this was the Plague Ship.

How did he sell those cruise tickets? He called up the poor relations of elderly multi-millionaires and sold them on credit.

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#3: BTP Holdings    To: Horse (#2)

the Plague Ship.

How did he sell those cruise tickets? He called up the poor relations of elderly multi-millionaires and sold them on credit.

Yeah, then if they get sick and croak, the debt goes into the estate of the deceased and it gets cancelled as a bad debt. We know the routine.

My sister ended up in a similar situation by putting my Dad in a nursing home in Chicago. It is likely the nursing home would not take him unless she cosigned. She told me he still owed $10k when he passed. Now she is dead so they had to take the pipe on it. ;)

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