A cruise ship infected by the coronavirus has been denied port in California.
The World Health Organization declined to declare a pandemic and a cruise ship remained at arms length from San Francisco on Thursday as officials grappled with the coronavirus outbreak blamed for more than 3,300 deaths worldwide.
The Grand Princess was denied port in California amid concerns its 3,500 passengers and crew may have been exposed to the coronavirus. California Gov. Gavin Newsom said the ship was sailing with 62 passengers who had been on the ship’s previous voyage with a 71-year-old man who eventually died from the virus.
The current cruise was scheduled to arrive in San Francisco on Wednesday but will not return to port until testing can take place, Newsom said. More than 20 passengers and crew members have developed symptoms consistent with COVID-19. Test kits were being flown onto the ship to test them and scores of others on board, the governor said.
The man died in Placer County, near Sacramento, representing the first U.S. fatality outside of Washington state, which has reported 10 deaths. More than 30 of the nation’s 165 confirmed coronavirus cases are in California. California and Los Angeles declared states of emergency Wednesday; San Francisco issued its declaration a week ago.
It’s actually funny that the entire west coast is having the most problems with the coronavirus. It is funny because there are many people on the west coast who I would love to see die of the coronavirus.
I also find it funny that California’s Governor Gavin Newsom is denying entry to this cruise ship, leaving them to die at sea. This is also funny because anybody who willfully spends their money on a stupid cruise deserves to die just on basic principle.
I’m just waiting for his Democrat friends to accuse him of being mean spirited and racist for not allowing the cruise ship to dock.
And even though I don’t think the coronavirus will cause an apocalypse, I still am rooting for it to cause an apocalypse because an apocalypse would make life much more interesting. Plus, during an apocalypse, we won’t hear anyone bitching about gender pronouns and dumb annoying shit nobody cares about. So that’d be one positive right there.
We have to understand that despite the negatives, an apocalypse would also provide many positives.
