Rigby5
Diamond Member
Who do you think I am going to listen to? The dismissed (acting) Sec. of the Navy? Or Capt. Crozier?
Clearly, solutions were not easy to find, or the Capt. would not have been fired for speaking out in trying to find them. Neglect is not a solution to the problem of a outbreak sweeping across this carrier. As far as to who leaked this letter to the Chronicle, it has never been confirmed that it was Crozier, to my knowledge. Apparently the only solution you could come up with was supporting Modley and dismissing the captain of this ship. If silencing the captain is your only solution, then you don't have one.
And I notice not a single suggestion as to what could have been done better. In fact, not a single condemnation of those on Guam and how they handled this, or any proof that those on board were being neglected.
And the simple fact is, this letter should never have been sent in a way where it could have been leaked. At a minimum, this should have been classified as "Secret", and never been sent in the open across unsecured lines. That alone has seen people put in jail.
This is how I look at it. I ignore all politics, that is irrelevant to the actual issue. Was the attention given to the crew the best that the Navy could do under the circumstances? Either it was, or it was not. And the lack of any apparent care over the treatment before or since this letter shows me that nobody gives a damn about that, they only care about the politics.
Nonsense.
There are dozens of solutions, and the situation was lethal.
Not only would everyone quickly gotten the virus on the ship, but there were no medical facilities to prevent any of the easily prevented deaths, with the use of ventilators at ANY port.
They would have been better off sent to land in China than to be condemned to death at sea.
And the proof there is a simple solution is that the ship finally did land at Guam and the crew disembarked.
They NOW are surviving.
And if not for Crozier, hundreds would likely be dead by now.