While I cannot understand how anyone still has boarded a cruise ship after what happened to the Diamond Princess in February, it is a fact that now still thousands of people are stuck on cruise ships that are at sea and do not find any place to dock.
Every country, every port refuses to let the passengers and crew on land. Some good news came from Florida allowing the Zaandam and the Rotterdam to dock, but the war against the coronavirus is showing humanity's worst side.
Lives could be saved, but no one wants to commit. What happened to the Diamond Princess in Japan, was sending shivers over my spine, but the drama, the tragedy now seems worse with other ships.
Borders are closed, messages full of hatred are flooding the news article comments section and the social media. What would have seemed unthinkable violations of human rights, now seems to become a weird normal. People are dying alone in homes for the elderly, nobody allowed any visits. We were taken aback by the quite sudden pandemic, but there must be better ways, more creative solutions on how to deal with our elderly population in a safe and humane way.
Let us please come up with more humane preventive measures. While the stay-at-home policy may be an acceptable and effective way to prevent the spread of the disease, please keep things in place to preserve the sanity and humanity of humanity. It would be nice to read in the comments section of this post, creative ideas on how we can keep it all a bit more humane.
Every country, every port refuses to let the passengers and crew on land. Some good news came from Florida allowing the Zaandam and the Rotterdam to dock, but the war against the coronavirus is showing humanity's worst side.
Lives could be saved, but no one wants to commit. What happened to the Diamond Princess in Japan, was sending shivers over my spine, but the drama, the tragedy now seems worse with other ships.
Borders are closed, messages full of hatred are flooding the news article comments section and the social media. What would have seemed unthinkable violations of human rights, now seems to become a weird normal. People are dying alone in homes for the elderly, nobody allowed any visits. We were taken aback by the quite sudden pandemic, but there must be better ways, more creative solutions on how to deal with our elderly population in a safe and humane way.
Let us please come up with more humane preventive measures. While the stay-at-home policy may be an acceptable and effective way to prevent the spread of the disease, please keep things in place to preserve the sanity and humanity of humanity. It would be nice to read in the comments section of this post, creative ideas on how we can keep it all a bit more humane.
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