The coronavirus-stricken cruise ship returns to sea about 3,000 passengers lighter and with crew members out of quarantine.
www.mercurynews.com
Nowhere did that say US citizens were kept on the boat, liar. You made that up
A plan took shape: The ship, still floating off the California coast, would
dock in Oakland.
Americans would be taken to military bases for two weeks of quarantine, and people from other countries would be sent home.
Grand Princess passengers were quarantined on bases. How ...
www.washingtonpost.com › national › 2020/03/23
Right, so you admit you were wrong. Americans were not prevented from entering the United States as you claimed
You never stop kazzing, a.k.a., lying, huh? He said they were being held on the ship before being let off. Then he posted a links echoing that...
The ship was left to circle outside the Golden Gate for days as authorities pondered how to quarantine more than two thousand passengers.
Here's a more descriptive link ...
A 15-night vacation to Hawaii, the trip of a lifetime, came to an end with a global pandemic and a detour into quarantine
www.theguardian.com
The morning of 4 March, the same day the Placer county man died at a hospital, Grand Princess officials told the 60 passengers who traveled with him they’d need to stay in their rooms until they could be screened for symptoms.
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Later that day Gavin Newsom, California’s governor, announced a state of emergency and, citing those on board who had shown symptoms said the Grand Princess, would head back to California early for testing.
The ship is then stranded off the coast of California on March 5th as Impeached Trump dithered. No one is let off until March 10th...
Meanwhile, as the Grand Princess idled offshore, Donald Trump publicly expressed reluctance to bring the ship home.
“I like the numbers where they are,” Trump said. “I don’t need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn’t our fault.”
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The Grand Princess was finally given the green light to return to shore, but it would dock in Oakland, not San Francisco. Officials said Oakland’s outer harbor put it at safer remove from tourists and densely populated areas.
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The worst, it seemed, was over. But still to overcome was was the colossal task of moving thousands of passengers, an untold number of whom had been infected, off the boat and onto buses, where they’d be transported to hospitals, hotels or military bases for 14 days of quarantine.
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On 10 March, the day the Grand Princess first reached Oakland, passengers received an official document under their cabin doors that read: “Once you arrive at the military installation, you may choose to be tested for Covid-19.”