Ruby Princess Doctor Surprised Passengers Were Let Off Without Tests. After 700 hundred cases of illness directly linked to Passengers from the Ruby Princess an investigation has been launched into what happened. One of the first people questioned was the doctor from the Ruby Princess cruise ships. #cruiseshipnews #cruisingwithdon #donsfamilyvacations #rubyprincess
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The doctor in the Ruby Princess said that had they asked her if she thought people on board may have had Covid 19.. she would have said yes. But Boone asked. Why did SHE not just offer that information. She had 2 people that had awaiting ambulances and she said these two people may have Covid 19 (1 soon after died) but she never said to anyone else about the numerous amount of people having respiratory issues on board. I think she should be held to account for this sadly.
Do you think smoking will be banned on all future cruises since the virus is a respiratory one?
I believe there is enough blame to go around for everybody from princess cruises right thru to and including N.S.W. Government. I also Believe that some people got on this ship knowing what had already happened to the diamond princess and believed it couldn’t happen to them. A Current Affair showed interviews with some of these people as they boarded and the arrogance they expressed was astounding. Also after people got sick on the diamond princess the cruise lines should have taken things more seriously and shut down the industry much quicker. Even now if the cruise industry re opened tomorrow there are people saying they would jump on board because they have the right to do whatever they want when they want because it’s there life what they fail to realise is that our actions have consequences that can affect others and you don’t have the right to do things that put other people at risk so please stop and think what you are doing and how it will impact on others as well as yourself
Hi Don. The NSW government forced the Ruby Princess to sail from Australia and she is now on her way to the Philippines. The crew who tested positive for COVID 19 have been placed in quarantine in a Sydney hotel for the next 14days. The ship has sailed along with any witnesses aboard that may be pertinent to the criminal enquiry which is still ongoing. The NSW STATE GOVERNMENT is pointing fingers at the FEDERAL BORDER FORCE and vice versa. The Captain advised NSW HEALTH DEPARTMENT of sickness aboard his vessel and the Health Department directed the Captain to dock and disembark his passengers BEFORE test results were in. To most people here it would seem that heads should roll in the Health Department. We can only wait and see.
The cruise industry you are purporting are not safe
"The Blame Game". Exactly what Don has transformed his once very enjoyable channel into. All I hear are rants and blaming now. I wish he would go back to putting out positive ideas and congratulating those who are helping.
This whole pandemic, Don, reminds me of an old school hit. TRUE COLORS by Cyndi Lauper. People, governments, Presidents, Governors, Mayors, Airlines, Cruise ships, hospitals, Nurses, Doctors and the general population are all now showing their TRUE COLORS. THINK ABOUT IT. This virus has caused a paradigm shift. The world as we Thought we knew it, will NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN. CRUISING WILL NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN, FLYING ON AN AIRPLANE, GOING TO THE MOVIES, THE SALON, THE SUPERMARKET, THE DOCTORS OFFICE, THE LIBRARY, YOUR JOB, WILL NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN.
Don: thank you for your research and positive discussion mostly for items.
Lol influenza is ALL tgey can ever test for, i been saying this for 3 months now! Its negligence and the lines will pay!
Ps i know that doctor, she i woukd never want as mine, cant gandle anything on board prior to covid, every call minimum 12 people with bs problems hv to be taken to local hospital. Goid picture you chose as thats her normal look when asked any medical question.
Some follow up to your comments, there are three departments that are concerned with the Ruby Princess, the NSW Port Authority, NSW Health and Australian Border Force.
what each of these departments with the help of the NSW police is trying to do is but the blame directly on the Ruby Princess.
This has been shown with comments made by the NSW Police Commissioner, who has no authority over NSW ports, with his comment when asked would he allow the Ruby Princess to return, he said never whilst he is in command, he has no authority over Cruise ship unless it is a legal matter and then he still has to have Aust Border Force do the investigation as it is an international Ship and the Crew has certain rights up until it has docked. he kept saying to the media the ship would be sailing on certain days and it was shown he had no authority, that authority was NSW Health whom stuffed up this completely, and then you have the NSW Premier also blaming the cruise line for allowing the passengers to off load, on that same day the Golden Princess docked in Melbourne and all Passengers where held on the ship till late afternoon awaiting clearance from Vic Health Dept so is shows how different state departments have varying policies on this, the NSW health dept should have requested assistance from the Australian Health Dept not give a cart blanche realease of all passenger and allowing them to spread out.
mate what is the going on in america when trump comes out and he wants to inject yous with disinfectant to kill the virus wow no other leader of a country would come out and say those things what plant does he live on also don just like to point out it was not just the ruby princess that cause alot of people in australia to have the virus there were other cruise ships as well naming
ovation of the seas , voyage of the seas carnival spirit , as well as some other ships that come into port the over a two week time
The doctor als l said she checked a box that there were not contagious disease on the ship thinking it referred only to norovirus.
Don really need to get the stick out of his ass and accept that the Ruby Princess was responsible for major clusters and the Ships Doctors signed off saying there was no evidence that there were sick people on board which was a lie. I hope Don learns to get his fact straight and checks his over biased opinions. He doesnt care about anything other than the American – Alaska seasons anyway so what the hell would he know? Was he THERE? No . Hes Not an expert hes a youtube blogger and unless her got all the evidence his opinions mean sweet F A
Sure sounds like the typical Government Blame game…
Don, off topic what are you standing in front of? Volcano? Stromboli?
It seems to me that princess cruises has a much higher infection rate for everything, including Noro.
There is more to this that meets the eye. Definitely blame on both sides. Called into question also is the fact that that cruise should NEVER have departed in the first place under the current conditions, and the fact that Princess did not disclose to anyone that there had been suspect cases and illness on the cruise BEFORE this one departed, with the usual short turnaround period where full disinfection could not have taken place. So likely there is blame on both sides here. Should never have happened after the Diamond experience in Japan. Very sadly there are now a significant number of deaths of passengers who were on that ship for a cruise of a lifetime. Very very sad indeed.
I was shocked they allowed the ship to leave with an investigation underway think the government just wanted it out of sight
You can't bring beef jerkey in a hermetically sealed container into the country! This seems extremely suspect (like planned) that OZ immigration would have allowed a whole ship to disembark without testing or quarantine.
torpedo the ships, easy
Law suits are not nearly such a big money making proposition in Australia as it is in the US.
The Federal Government a couple of days before that cruise ships would be heavily scrutinized and then this happened.
Someone green lighted this knowing they were doing the wrong thing.
This not long after the Japanese issue.
Hope we find out.
As an Australian I await the outcome of the Ruby Princess debacle with some interest. 700 deaths associated with the ship! Someone made a very dumb decision.
Potentially the Health Minister is responsible for giving the all clear (or given from his staff).
Also the head of Border Control whose job it is to protect the border.
Just prosecute both for 700 cases of assault and see how sympathetic the courts are.
As you said there will be more on this one
The cruise era is quickly over and is history
government is at fault 100 percent now they will just try to find a fall guy to save themselves
Wow this is horrible and ive been saying this for weeks that the cruise ships need to be shut down!!!
Thanks Don, I'm curious about this issue 🤗
I will offer my services for a meet $500 00 per day plus a small office and cell phone. With my grade 9 education I will guarantee that nothing like this would have happened. I do have another qualification which is common sense. There seems to be that very smarty people lack this or there pockets were filled with money. What do you think happened? I can start any time.
Don … I'm so sad that this virus has ruined the cruise industry …. it will never be the same
I have never been on a cruise and for sure I never will go on a cruise ever.
NSW Government are hopeless they have no idea what they are doing and it does not make me proud to be Australian
Hi Don, as a correction, 774 Australian Passengers were directly infected. 35 foreign national passengers are also known to have been infected. 202 of the crew were infected as of two days ago. 21 of the Passengers have since died.
The disembarked passengers are known to have infected 21 airline employees (primarily baggage handlers) and I am aware of one overseas passenger who infected a fellow passenger on her flight home who since died.
Still, the doctor is to be held equally liable. He did nothing. He knew there was a pandemic and people were sick on board and did nothing. And said nothing.
I am currently in the Royal Adelaide Hospital have come through the other side but was 2 weeks in icy have been in hospital 4 weeks know . Have done 40+ cruises this Ruby Princess cruise has to New theworst captain was also the worst I have ever encouted.NSW GOVERNMENT incompetent Australian border force did not even check passports. QANTAS flight back to Adelaide no different, when call the following day about potential passengers being positive couldn't care less. At moment not happy with Princess as cruise before had issues we should never have been allowed to board and sail. Ruby a d Diamond should now be scrapped the have a bad reputation that can't be fixed
Outstanding Blog!! Best one on cruising! Thank you.
Port authorities have the final word in clearing disembarkation. In fairness, the authorities draw their decision on what the ship tells them, and in this case it seems Ruby Princess minimized the flu-like symptoms.
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