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Letter Re: A Ship's Belated Flu Quarantine as an Object Lesson
Hi Jim,
Here is a bit about the progress of Swine Flu in Australia with this
article about a quarantined luxury cruise ship.
We now have a cruise ship, the P & O Pacific Dawn, being quarantined at
Willis Island on the Great Barrier Reef – with 2000 people on board.
Yesterday the ship was photographed flying the yellow quarantine flag! Our “brilliant” state
health departments let 20 infected people disembark at Sydney and they [then]
flew throughout Australia .
[Some background:] 13 of these people turned up at the Robina Hospital at
the Gold Coast and the staff at the hospital had no idea what to do with them.
The
people
were
put in a single room with a single bed and most of the family was made to sleep
on the floor. Authorities seemed to be clueless.
They (the New South S]Wales government) then let new passengers embark on the
infected ship and let the ship leave Sydney on a trip. They also let three
infected staff
sail
on the
new
voyage. No prizes for guessing what happened next. All people on board now
exposed to the swine flu and the ship has been quarantined.
I really enjoy your web log and I have been sharing it with my friends. Keep
up the great work and my prayers and best wishes to your wife with her illness.
Yours sincerely - Jamie in Queensland, Australia
