from Covid19 on an aircraft carrier. That’s like a cruise ship with zero amenities. How then to keep land based soldiers disease free? These people are fucking delusional! Gah!!!

Gotta drive up the price of oil somehow.

is a synonym for "Iraqi citizens" then? In the "reporting" you always hear of the former and never the latter.

.... stems from the fate of the aircraft carrier, Theodore Roosevelt, that had been steaming toward the Straits of Hormuz when pandemonium broke out onboard yesterday. The mighty warship has since been diverted to Guam at full speed, what ever that is these days.

Pandemonium In The Pacific: US Carrier Diverts To Guam As COVID-19 Cases Spike Among Crew

An absolute disaster is fast unfolding aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt in the Western Pacific causing emergency contingency plans to be put in place.

By Wednesday eight sailors aboard the carrier tested positive for COVID-19, but clearly the outbreak aboard the ship is nowhere near being contained as on Thursday the US Navy said that number has jumped to 23 sailors confirmed for the virus.

Pentagon officials further admitted the ability to conduct widespread testing aboard the ship is limited in a situation so dangerous that the carrier has been diverted from it's original course, though Acting Navy Secretary Thomas B. Modly sought to stress “the ship is operationally capable and can do it’s mission if required” — no doubt a message ultimately meant for America's rivals and enemies in the region.

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So, the Navy is testing all onboard for Covid-19. Just for the record, that would be some five-thousand plus US personnel living in close quarters on that boat for god knows how long.

Meanwhile, in Guam, where they are dealing without own coronavirus issues, Navy and Marine Corp service members were rousted to squeeze more beds into the already crowded bases located there. This means that some ten to twelve-thousand plus US personnel will be squeezed onto Guam's bases. They reportedly set up 140 military beds in a basketball gymnasium. Good start. 140 down and 4,860 beds to go. According to the Daily Beast: "To squeeze more troops into the gym, Navy medical professionals recommended measuring the six-foot distance per guidance from the CDC from the center of the bed rather than from the outer edges, meaning, that the beds are actually 3-feet apart."

Here's how China reports on this event in "English." Since it is happening in their bathtub, it's more an analysis. The Chinese keep a close eye on such matters since the US started terrorizing their waters.

Further COVID-19 assessments among the many crew are anticipated, and probably “dozens” of recent circumstances might emerge, CNN reported on Thursday, citing an official, whereas one other official stated the variety of extra circumstances is predicted to be giant, to an extent the US Protection Division can be unlikely to publicly specify how most of the Navy’s total circumstances are amongst members of the crew of the plane service,” as a result of issues that adversaries comparable to China or North Korea might see the ship as weak.”

Performing Navy Secretary Thomas Modly stated that the Theodore Roosevelt is in a strategy of testing all the crew, roughly 5,000 personnel, because the plane service is pulling into Guam, CNN reported.

“Nobody within the crew will probably be allowed to go away wherever into Guam, apart from on pier facet,” CNN quoted Modly as saying.

These measures point out the US has primarily put the Theodore Roosevelt in a upkeep situation and had all scheduled navy missions cancelled, because the plane service’s most important mission now has shifted to docking in Guam, quarantining all of its crew members on the navy base there and conducting thorough disinfection work on the complete ship, Tune Zhongping, a Chinese language navy knowledgeable and TV commentator, advised the International Occasions on Friday.

Tune stated he expects all crew members to go away the ship and be quarantined for 14 days, and the plane service will possible bear a full-scale disinfection process, together with on air con and sewer methods.

Even when such work is accomplished, the Theodore Roosevelt won’t be put into motion anytime quickly, as thorough assessments will comply with which has to make sure the dangers of an infection are lowered to zero, Tune predicted.