Buses carrying cruise passengers bound for Dobbins ARB ordered to turn around

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https://www.cbs46.com/news/buses-carrying-cruise-passengers-bound-for-dobbins-arb-ordered-to/article_10d15cfc-63c0-11ea-af62-d3960b08dc81.html?fbclid=IwAR23Twka-w8AsU1MxawLtXjahYeMY9S627qG-60ka8KZHSSPtDafiHJMLIo

OAKLAND, Calif. (CBS46) – Two buses transporting passengers from The Grand Princess cruise ship in California bound for Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta were stopped Wednesday and ordered to turn around.

The passengers were told to return to their staterooms on the ship.

Cruise ship passengers who may have been exposed to COVID-19 were headed to three military bases, including Dobbins Air Reserve Base for quarantine.

The Grand Princess Cruise Ship docked Monday in Oakland, two days after its scheduled arrival in San Francisco. Twenty-one people on the ship tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday. Passengers on the ship had been isolated in their rooms ever since

[Historic NY]

1. What a cluster-fuck.

[pbmus]

3. It's really a kakistrophic kleptocratic Klusterfuc...

[Baitball Blogger]

12. KKK

[HarlanPepper]

4. And guess what will happen this weekend?

About 10-15 more floating Petri dishes will depart from Miami and Ft. Lauderdale each carrying thousands of passengers and crew. And that’s just those 2 ports.

[elleng]

2. Holy CRAP!

Those poor passengers, subjected to whatever this 'administration' can throw together.

[DENVERPOPS]

9. Genocide for Seniors.......N/T

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

5. Once again, this resembles a badly designed high school biology experiment

to see just how many people we can infect in a closed environment.

[Totally Tunsie]

6. Poorly written article, lacking details.

Where were they when they were stopped?

Who told them to return to their staterooms?

Old Journalism Rules: Who, What, When, Where, How.

[BusyBeingBest]

15. Yeah, they might as well have stopped writing anything

beyond the headline. Total journalism fail.

[dewsgirl]

7. I follow a couple ladies on the ship, people are beginnimg

to lose it...this will not end well.

[Baitball Blogger]

13. .

[dewsgirl]

14. I know.😔

This make me unbelievably angry at those that continue to take these risks, and don't even get me started on the greedy crusielines.
Side story, there is a couple suing the cruiseline for a million dollars, while they are trapped.

[winstars]

8. The local station in GEORGIA CBS46 has updated the story, see below:

https://www.cbs46.com/second-plane-carrying-cruise-ship-passengers-expected-to-land-at/video_196367fa-a19a-52cb-981c-51b7fba0622f.html

[KY_EnviroGuy]

10. Here's a good article on the general conditions aboard that ship.....

on a more personal level......

Couple still aboard the Grand Princess describe confusion and anger
Amanda McCracken, SFGATE
Published 9:03 am PDT, Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Read it here: https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Inside-the-Grand-Princess-cruise-ship-room-232-15119916.php

(snip)

After being stranded for days off the coast of San Francisco, the Grand Princess cruise ship finally docked at the Port of Oakland on Monday. Twenty-one people aboard the ship, including 19 crew members, are confirmed to to have contracted COVID-19. The process of disembarking the thousands of passengers is underway, yet as of Tuesday, hundreds are still awaiting their first steps on land, after what has been a frustrating, sometimes scary ordeal.

LouAnn and David Wood, a couple in their 60s who are still stuck in cabin 232 on the ship, told us about their experience....

KY..........

[KY_EnviroGuy]

11. This is a Thursday morning update from an Oakland, CA news source.....

Nearly 800 disembark Grand Princess cruise ship, process to continue Thursday
By Debora Villalon
Published 2 hours ago

Read here: https://www.ktvu.com/news/nearly-800-disembark-grand-princess-cruise-ship-process-to-continue-thursday

(snip)

OAKLAND, Calif. - Thursday should be the final day for evacuation from the Grand Princess cruise ship in Oakland.

Almost 800 passengers came off the ship Wednesday, with fewer than 300 remaining, according to CDC spokesman Dave Daigle. The stragglers have been more difficult to find charter flights for, said Daigle, due to special circumstances or out-of-the-way destinations.

"We live in strange times, I'll say that," said West Oakland resident Matt Kong, who has twice made his way to the waterfront to observe the ship and take photos. "Thankfully Oakland was willing to open itself up to this and allow these people to get off, when they were just circling," said Kong. "I felt bad for them, it's a damn shame."

Hundreds of people taken off the ship are settling in to a two-week quarantine at Travis Air Force Base forty miles away. But after numerous busloads over three days, the Westwind Hotel is now filled to capacity.

Hopefully, that bus turnaround was just a logistics issue that has been solved.

KY..........