What's Going On With Shipping?

Reply to What's Going On With Shipping? on Tue, 05 May 2026 16:38:28 GMT

lor@goingdark.social — Tue, 05 May 2026 16:38:28 GMT

Yeah the boat is contaminated.

Reply to What's Going On With Shipping? on Tue, 05 May 2026 16:19:24 GMT

me_valentijn@m.ai6yr.org — Tue, 05 May 2026 16:19:24 GMT

@jt_rebelo @ai6yr
The threat of continued exposure to rodent droppings or contaminated food on the ship is substantial, and with lethal consequences. The existence of human-to-human transmission of hantavirus, on the other hand, is not supported by any strong evidence.

Confining people to the ship is far more likely to kill people than carefully ferrying them to shore sans mice. And quarantine need not be fancy or long term - eg, a hotel paid for by the ship's insurer, etc, until other arrangements can be made.

Reply to What's Going On With Shipping? on Tue, 05 May 2026 16:03:30 GMT

jt_rebelo@ciberlandia.pt — Tue, 05 May 2026 16:03:30 GMT

@ai6yr not on Cape Verde. They passed by many other countries, could have and should have gone anywhere else. The island's doctors and nurses will do what they can, on the boat, but Cape Verde doesn't have the infrastructure to deal with an on shore quarantine, much less with a possible outbreak (human to human, or mice on the island). They'd be devastated into oblivion (poor people without basic sanitation on small islands, with about 10 full-time doctors on their biggest hospital, their "brain drain" happens to my country, since we speak the same language and Cape Verde was a Portuguese colony until the late 1970's).
They should be brought to a more developed country, one that can impose a quarantine while the ones that become sick can be properly treated.