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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 2099" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2020-carnival-cruise-coronavirus/?utm_source=pocket-newtab" target="_blank"><strong>Socially Distance This - Bloomberg</strong></a></p><p></p><p><strong>Carnival Executives Knew They Had a Virus Problem, But Kept the Party Going </strong></p><p></p><p>More than 1,500 people on the company’s cruise ships have been diagnosed with Covid-19, and dozens have died. </p><p></p><p>The news, when it reached the <em>Grand Princess</em> early on March 4, barely registered at first. In a letter slipped under passenger cabin doors, Grant Tarling, Carnival Corp.’s chief medical officer, announced that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control had begun “investigating a small cluster” of Covid-19 cases in California that might have been linked to the ship. Thirteen days after leaving San Francisco for Hawaii, the vessel would be skipping a scheduled stop in Mexico on its return voyage and sailing back early to its Bay Area port.</p><p></p><p>That day, passengers noticed new hand sanitizer stations and crew members wearing gloves, but life on the <em>Grand Princess</em>, which advertises 1,301 cabins, 20 restaurants and lounges, about a dozen shops, and four freshwater swimming pools, otherwise went on as normal. Guests prepared for a ukulele concert, played bridge at shared tables, and took line-dancing classes. That night, Laurie Miller and her husband, John, attended <em>True or Moo</em>, a show featuring an emcee in a cow costume; the following morning, John joined about 200 other passengers in the ship’s Broadway-style theater for a lecture on Clint Eastwood movies. “I’m surprised they’re even letting this event happen,” he whispered to a nearby friend. “This is a big crowd.”</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 2099, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2020-carnival-cruise-coronavirus/?utm_source=pocket-newtab'][B]Socially Distance This - Bloomberg[/B][/URL] [B]Carnival Executives Knew They Had a Virus Problem, But Kept the Party Going [/B] More than 1,500 people on the company’s cruise ships have been diagnosed with Covid-19, and dozens have died. The news, when it reached the [I]Grand Princess[/I] early on March 4, barely registered at first. In a letter slipped under passenger cabin doors, Grant Tarling, Carnival Corp.’s chief medical officer, announced that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control had begun “investigating a small cluster” of Covid-19 cases in California that might have been linked to the ship. Thirteen days after leaving San Francisco for Hawaii, the vessel would be skipping a scheduled stop in Mexico on its return voyage and sailing back early to its Bay Area port. That day, passengers noticed new hand sanitizer stations and crew members wearing gloves, but life on the [I]Grand Princess[/I], which advertises 1,301 cabins, 20 restaurants and lounges, about a dozen shops, and four freshwater swimming pools, otherwise went on as normal. Guests prepared for a ukulele concert, played bridge at shared tables, and took line-dancing classes. That night, Laurie Miller and her husband, John, attended [I]True or Moo[/I], a show featuring an emcee in a cow costume; the following morning, John joined about 200 other passengers in the ship’s Broadway-style theater for a lecture on Clint Eastwood movies. “I’m surprised they’re even letting this event happen,” he whispered to a nearby friend. “This is a big crowd.” [/QUOTE]
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