Corona Virus #7

[dragoneggs]

I have not seen 5030 post for a week. I sent him a PM yesterday but no response yet. He is a fellow Michigander who farms in southern MI. He believed he was relatively safe on his farm, and maybe he is out doing his thing; but it is not normal for him to be silent this long.

He is a high risk individual as he was/is undergoing cancer treatment. And southern MI is one of the hot spots....so hoping that he and his family are riding this out OK.

His last post with 3/25 in the afternoon.

 

[bunyip]

Just received this.....

 

[RoyJackson]

The Captain of a Carrier that has a panic attack over a virus is unfit to command and should be relieved of duty immediately. If I am not mistaken, none of the crew has died. I doubt many of the crew are "high risk". He is not commanding a retirement home.

Wrong answer...especially in peace time!
I was in the Navy for about 10 years...served on the USS Saratoga and USS Inchon.
Unlike a cruise ship, crewmembers are berthed in very close quarters....not staterooms. There may be as many as 100 personnel on a berthing compartment, normally two or three racks high and, if an adjacent berth, only a opaque curtain separates shipmates. A breeding ground for rapid transmission of a contagious disease.
If this had happened in war time, this risk may have been acceptable...but we're not at war.
So, you guys criticizing that skipper don't know what the **** you're writing about...do you? Would you like to write those letters to the husbands, wives or parents of the men and women who died?

 

[cqaigy2]

Not sure what your source is but there are things here that make no sense at all. For starters, you are talking about treatment in the pre antibiotic era, before WWII, but you mention that studies showed an increase in 哲K cells. NK cells were not even discovered until the 1970痴, 30-35 years after we routinely used antibiotics in treatment of pneumonia. What is your source? I hope it痴 not the well known bozo Dr Google.

Sorry. Yes i've done a poor job of putting down what was on the video. The pre antibiotic era treatments were during the civil war. The studies of increase of natural killer cells were done much later. I don't recall his name being Dr Google. :laughing:

 

[riptides]

Pentagon Orders Bases to Stop Reporting Coronavirus Numbers as Cases Surge | Military.com

Wrong answer...especially in peace time!
I was in the Navy for about 10 years...served on the USS Saratoga and USS Inchon.
Unlike a cruise ship, crewmembers are berthed in very close quarters....not staterooms. There may be as many as 100 personnel on a berthing compartment, normally two or three racks high and, if an adjacent berth, only a opaque curtain separates shipmates. A breeding ground for rapid transmission of a contagious disease.
If this had happened in war time, this risk may have been acceptable...but we're not at war.
So, you guys criticizing that skipper don't know what the **** you're writing about...do you? Would you like to write those letters to the husbands, wives or parents of the men and women who died?

 

[RoyJackson]

Pentagon Orders Bases to Stop Reporting Coronavirus Numbers as Cases Surge | Military.com

Still a wrong answer...that skipper reported the issue before this directive (linked) was issued. He also already had personnel showing symptoms and, apparently confirmed cases...
IMHO, as a Navy veteran, the captain did the right thing

 

[/pine]

The Captain of a Carrier that has a panic attack over a virus is unfit to command and should be relieved of duty immediately. If I am not mistaken, none of the crew has died. I doubt many of the crew are "high risk". He is not commanding a retirement home.

FYI...You do not get to be the captain of a nuclear aircraft carrier by being a fly off the handle dumbass...exactly what are your credentials to question or second guess a high ranking military commander ???

 

[Jaylegger]

No Captain is comfortable going to war with an exponentially increasingly disabled crew. He made the correct call while he still could.

 

[riptides]

Defense sec. Issued a press statement last Friday. No numbers.

Still a wrong answer...that skipper reported the issue before this directive (linked) was issued. He also already had personnel showing symptoms and, apparently confirmed cases...
IMHO, as a Navy veteran, the captain did the right thing

 

[shooterdon]

FYI...You do not get to be the captain of a nuclear aircraft carrier by being a fly off the handle dumbass...exactly what are your credentials to question or second guess a high ranking military commander ???

First...I was commenting on what another poster suggested motived the Captain...panic.

Second...there is a chain of command....that does not include the media.