Now that < 1hr tests are appearing to market, the cruise ship industry has a great opportunity.
1. Use a test to test crew and passengers 2. Sail the seas and come back in two months (or whatever). Everyone can even continue to "work from home" from their cabin.-- theircompetitor, Mar 31 2020 Luxury Hotel Quarantine https://www.cnbc.co...ronavirus-test.html [theircompetitor, Apr 02 2020] well imagine you test when you buy the ticket, test again before going on board 3 weeks later -- I think that would work-- theircompetitor, Mar 31 2020 If you get one false negative, after the incubation period won't you just end up with a whole shipfull of sick people ? For the 3 week delay, the potential passengers will have to spend all that time in total isolation.
Although even with 100% infection, 60% will have no symptoms and 30% will have only mild symptoms.-- 8th of 7, Mar 31 2020 If you care to become a reviewer, we will be delighted to welcome you on board as our guest, free of charge.-- 8th of 7, Mar 31 2020 With bandwidth requirements for streaming video and exorbitant costs for satellite service being what they are on cruise ships, I don't think the "work from home" thing is gonna work here.
That said, I like the idea of the cruise for 2 months.-- 21 Quest, Mar 31 2020 // I don't think the "work from home" thing is gonna work here //
But it works perfectly well for the ship's crew. Can not something be deduced from that ?-- 8th of 7, Mar 31 2020 Like you can believe everything you read on TripAdvisor ? Puh-lease ...
Three bad reviews, against the innumerable other good ones from the Collective ?
Look, it's a free holiday, what have you got to lose* ?
*Your individual personality, any sense of independent identity, and your life as you have known it. But you get some cool technology to play with.-- 8th of 7, Mar 31 2020 We have Twiglets, Cheeselets and Mini Cheddars, grissini, Cheese Footballs, and some tins of Peek Freans assorted cocktail biscuits that are <Peers dubiously at faded datestamp on base of tin/> probably still edible.
<Shakes tin again, listens to unencouraging dull thudding sounds/>
Plus lots of patterns stored in our replicators*, which you are free to use at any time.
*Athough the backup unit on Level 43, cross-link L 7, section Theta 5, cluster 41686, node Ox5F45 is still producing blue granite trilby hats full of horse chestnut soup topped with shredded opossum skin**. It's never been quite right since Sturton was last on board. We're working on it.
** Actually, the soup's not that bad if you add salt and pepper, but the hats are heavy, uncomfortable, and after a few days start to smell really gross however much they're washed out.-- 8th of 7, Mar 31 2020 No, a Waitrose.-- 8th of 7, Mar 31 2020 Well, when Mt. Ranier blows its top, you can always come and stay with us.
Forever ...-- 8th of 7, Mar 31 2020 USGS is; but the data from Rainier looks a little bit more significant than Hood. Higher temps at Rainier, slightly more uplift at Hood, but importantly no significant tremor at either - nothing indicating magma on its way up at any great speed.
The problem is that a jolt on the offshore fault could change that very quickly. The ancient tsunami event off the Pacific coast could be repeated, too - the First Nations oral traditions have been confirmed by the geology. That could be a lot worse than a volcano blowing - after all, St. Helens was noisy and dramatic but remote enough not to do much real harm, and it was short and sweet.
Still, it might be worth visiting Olympic National Park this summer, while it's still looking all green and pretty ... the subduction zone is right under your feet ...
The Canucks are watching Tseax and the surrounding area closely, too.-- 8th of 7, Mar 31 2020 While I've not been on a cruise, I hear they love an opportunity for squeezing additional revenue out of their captives. So, I put on my evil cap and came up with an idea that would go along with this. A great way to keep mischievous airborne viridae out of one's respiratory tract is to be in a room that is at positive pressure relative to adjacent rooms. This is used in operating theaters, clean rooms, that kind of thing. So let the "customers" pay for "gold premium breathing experience". Of course the air pressure will always be a relative thing, so the platinum experience lowers the air pressure in immediately adjacent cabins. To enhance the overall effect, perhaps the lower pressure in the neighbor cabins will be enough to bring on some mild respiratory distress that may be enjoyed through the "walls".-- bs0u0155, Apr 01 2020 That sounds inventively evil, although the bulkheads will need stiffening, and there will need to be modifications to the HVAC.
"Please swipe a major credit card for your next 30 minutes of respiration" will bring in those tourist bucks like nothing else.
Could be done in hotels, too, although harder to make the rooms sufficiently airtight.-- 8th of 7, Apr 01 2020 // 60% will have no symptoms and 30% will have only mild symptoms
not great, not terrible-- sninctown, Apr 01 2020 Just like life in general, then. Average. Why, what did you expect ?-- 8th of 7, Apr 01 2020 This needs to be done.-- doctorremulac3, Apr 02 2020 Nice, But unless there's upgrades, wouldn't this be a little novel, floating, incubation vessel experiment? A slight increased chance of mutation, especially with rough seas.-- wjt, Apr 04 2020 That will only become a testable hypothesis after nine months, shirley ?-- 8th of 7, Apr 04 2020 random, halfbakery