#Cruise ship quarantine

[strandnreyes]

I just love love love an au fic. college roommates. pta rivals. quarantined on a cruise ship together. tourist and tour guide. second chance lovers. farmer and new hired hand. bnb owners. pilot and flight attendant. overworked resident physicians. childhood friends secretly pining as they date other people throughout their youth. advice column. safe house. there are so so many ways to have two people fall in love and it’s soooo beautiful.

[kakiastro]

Neptune Pisces 29°

Pisces rules over Jellyfish

I don’t see too many astrologers talking about this transit.

Neptune has been at the 29° and this signifies we are truly at end of an era!

Neptune entered Pisces in 2011 and will leave next year in 2025.

Neptune represents the collective subconscious, spirituality, creative downloads, isolation, the ocean, our mental health, hospitals

29°(Leo degree) is known “anaretic degree” this degree rules over ending of cycles. This leo shines light on what we are finishing up learning.

So what does this mean a a collective?

-oh hunny we are healing! We as a collective have been dealing with serious discussions regarding mental health. People have become more open about it now compared to past generations.

-addictions of all kinds has also been a huge topic these last 14 years! We’ve seen/heard or even know people are working to become sober, have been sober or struggling with it.

-hospital stays, the pandemic literally happened during this transit. Pisces rules over immune diseases and mucus. Isolation, we were quarantined and isolated from the people. Pisces rules over isolation.

-the ocean! Chile.. the orcas. Billionaires passing away in the ocean trying to see the titanic and there’s a new cruise ship that’s set to embark next year. There’s been recalls on fish, heavy rain falls.

-spirituality! Astrology has become mainstream and somewhat normalized especially in the Pluto Sag generation. Even if you’re not into astrology, I’ve seen people become reiki healers, holistic healers. With Uranus being in Taurus, natural healing remedies are popular. Spiritual retreats or just vacationing near water destinations have been popular

-scams! With spirituality becoming mainstream, here comes the cons and frauds. Pisces rules over frauds. Not just in the spiritual community but in a religious communities. With Saturn in Pisces , so much corruption has been brought to light. “Are you in this to enlighten the masses or your pockets?” This is the question that Saturn is checking to see. With Neptune at 29°, this is what we are ending and clearing.

You know what else I’ve noticed? So many spiritual folks leaving and joining religion such as Christianity being the biggest one I’ve noticed. This is interesting because Pisces is connected to Christianity, it’s said Yeshua(Jesus) is connected to Pisces. I’ve also noticed the other side of this where religious people are becoming more spiritual. It’s been an interesting phenomenon to witness as an astrologer and connecting the dots!

-the afterlife! Pisces rules the spirit realm, so many people are embracing there spiritual gifts, even the non believers are starting to believe in something that’s bigger than themselves. Past lives! More people are becoming fascinated with reincarnation and who they might’ve been in past lives. Pisces rules over past lives

-the truth! Chile..what is the truth??? Everyone has their own version of it and reality is somewhere in lost in the sauce, where all just winging it hoping for the best. That’s Pisces energy! Timelines is a huge topic, what timeline are you on? Pisces doesn’t have time because it’s boundless. It’s the void and smoke and mirrors lol

-celebrity! Chile…. The topic of celebrity worship has become a huge topic of discussion and how unhealthy it is. Chapelle Roan is the recent celebrity that’s setting boundaries with fans, I believe she’s a Pisces too lol. Pisces rules over glamour and idols. Hollywood is a Sun 12h(Pisces house). Celebs are people who bleed, eat and shit like us. They just have nicer toilets than us 🤪. I don’t think it’ll ever go away because celebrity worship have been around forever but we are more self aware at how unhealthy it is!!! Also, think of the celebs who have talked about how tough the industry really is.

These are just some of the themes and topics I’ve seen the last 14 years , even more so in the last few lol.

Neptune enters Aries March 30 , 2025 and will stay until 2039! The energy flip is going to be crazy! Pisces is a heavy water sign, so that’s why the energy feels like the your trying to swim through a 100 foot wave lol. Baby that Aries energy is going to be coming in like a wild fire!!

Look up the song “ante up” by M.o.p. That’s the vibe lol. I’ll make another post on Neptune Aries at another date’

Now for you personally, the house Pisces rules in your chart is your own individual story with this transit. Think of it as your own book.

Neptune rules over fantasy, what was theme of your story, who was the side characters that helped you on your mission? What did you learn on your quest? Neptune is the start of your new book and new story.

I’m open for readings! Have a beautiful day y’all!!!

[importantandunavoidable]

Twenty years ago. That's when people stopped dying properly.

They were dead inasmuch as they stopped being people. But they were alive because they never ceased to move. They didn't walk. They didn't do things. They just moved. A strange gentle agitation. Like Parkinson's disease that kept on post-mortem.

At first, we were terrified of them. We thought they would kill us. I don't know why. We thought that the only reason the dead aren't dead is because they wanted to kill us. So, we waged war on them. Shooting them and setting them on fire. We ran from them. We quarantined people in stadiums. We believed that terrible violent things were happening. It was often repeated on the news-the dead were eating us. In time their numbers grew. The dead were forming enormous masses. Twitching masses. All across the world. In time, economies began to collapse. Wars ended quietly. Leaders slipped away. We didn't totally cave in. Some took hold of the structures, the culture, the daily life and they looked past, believing this was a solvable problem. They noticed, and soon we all did, that the dead were not hurting us. They were harmless.

It took a long time for this fact to spread into the population. Some never bought it and committed horrible acts of hate on the dead. Some destroyed the dead for sport. Some kept parts in collections. Some wore moving fingers on chains. Still do. There's a complicated, deviant culture pretty much everywhere these days.

When some calm returned, when a majority was finally convinced that the dead meant no harm-in fact, meant nothing-then solutions became possible. This was a waste disposal problem. The dead numbered in the many hundreds of millions. And they made up mountains of bodies. Like water droplets running into each other to create flowing water. They didn't mean to hurt us, but they threatened life in other ways. They became immovable. We didn't know it at first but their biggest threat was invisible: we were now, all of us, thinking about them and thinking about them all the time.

Governments, or at least what was left of them, turned to the private sector for tenders. Dispose of these things in an efficient and reasonable way. Keep costs down. Make it sustainable. Many proposals became popular. At one time, enormous cremating ovens were erected in Africa. They had incredible capacity. They recorded over a hundred thousand cremations a day. It was impressive. Iron ovens the size of cruise liners. Clean white smoke woven in the clouds. Still, weightless ash flowing on the wind into desert lands.

It was the pictures that killed it though. Bulldozed bodies piled in the ovens. The filthy heat and fire. It was, to many, a ghost. The holocaust. The iron cross and the metal letters. There were others who saw the bodies burn and believed we were constructing hell. We were Satan's architects and builders. Others, sentimental ones, just couldn't bear the thought of an uncle or sister twitching in the dark centres of these body balls, then being burned.

The African ovens were abandoned. There was a flood of proposals. Weight them down at the bottom of the Marianas Trench. This one failed in trials. The bodies simply found ways to surface. A clip of a trawler cutting through a sea of moving flesh and faces as far as the eye could see was too much. Landfill projects were tried, but with similar results. Thousands of moving beings beneath a landscape will find a way to break the surface. They poured down from hills and parks. Science tried to still them. To make them stop. But even this was too offensive once we saw their work. Vivisection and freezing and hammering and encasing and draining and filling with hard glues. Nothing stopped our nightmares. We were starting to feel this new creature was lying within us.

The answer that we finally accepted went like this. Waste Management Corp. (WasteCorp) constructed space shuttles with immense crates on their backs. These ships headed into our upper atmosphere and released the millions, setting them into orbit around the earth. WasteCorp, having learned a few things, knew it had to calm us, had to provide new rituals, had to give us the right pictures. Sunbaked loved ones. Star-dappled children. Not gathering in mounds like mad insects, but rather distributed evenly in infinite space. Great care was taken with both word and image. In fact, it was pitched as a vast improvement over being eaten by worms in the cold, indifferent earth. This was a room with a view. This was not death, but like what it was, a final place to slow down and be surrounded by wonder.

And so we sent them. By the millions. The only images we saw were beautiful. People leaving the ship easily, then drifting like a soft astral landscape. There was no question: it was the perfect place to rest. WasteCorp said that the dead were gently refusing the grave, and waiting for us to move them to the sky. If you could afford it you could even have a trackable loved one. You couldn't see them with the naked eye, but a chart was issued to you and you could know roughly what part of the sky they moved. Every day and night.

Then the light changed.

from The n-Body Problem by Tony Burgess

[phanfictioncatalogue]

Humor (6) Masterlist

part one, part two, part three, part four, part five

7 Places Not to Have Sex, a Guide by Dan Howell - ttathinker

Summary: because not every time dan and phil have sex results in careless whispers in the background and scented candles.

an elemental match (ao3) - itsmyusualphannie (itsmyusualweeb)

Summary: “one moment can change a day, one day can change a life, and one life can change the world”

- not buddha

dan and phil, who like everyone else in their world have some level of superhuman powers, are out and about when tragedy strikes. they have powers, though. they can fix this, right? right.

(right?)

Baby, I'm a Star (ao3) - cactusgal

Summary: Phil is a lighting designer. Bored with the community concert gigs he has worked for a couple years, he applies at a touring company. He is assigned to a popular band, the dreamx, to cover a world tour. Getting paid to work on nearly every continent: how rad is that? Phil's excited until the first day of rehearsal when he learns something vital: the lead singer is a complete twat. Will Phil quit his job? Will Daniel, the lead singer, realize how much of a dick he's being? Will they eventually forget their differences and become friends? Who knows. Only time will tell.

can dan and phil nut (ao3) - itsmyusualphannie (itsmyusualweeb)

Summary: dan and phil try no-nut november

Christmas with a few Kinks (ao3) - winstonlives

Summary: Phil’s a cheeky lil’ shit and inspires Dan to set them up with a Mrs Claus they only know for about an hour.

i jump for my phone every moment it lights up (ao3) - natigail

Summary: Dan left YouTube behind to become an actor, but years later when coronavirus hits and forces him into self-imposed quarantine he rediscovers an old passion of his - AmazingPhil. He hadn't counted on becoming internet friends with him, or falling in love for that matter.

It all started with a snake bite (ao3) - winstonlives

Summary: Dan accidentally turns Phil on. Ribena gets all over the couch. While cleaning it up Dan finds out some surprising, and arousing things about Phil's university life.

Kick Me While I'm Down (ao3) - jerseker

Summary: Dan and Phil meet in an adult kickball league. Phil is just there to make friends. Dan is - not.

Lipstick (ao3) - winstonlives

Summary: Inspired by an Instagram filter, Dan tries lipstick.

Moments (ao3) - TwistedRocketPower

Summary: Dan and Phil had a file. A file of moments that were for their eyes only. Until one day, they were broadcast to the world.

One Last Time (ao3) - greensweater

Summary: When Dan Howell moves in with Phil Lester to help pay the rent, Phil isn't expecting anything but a new friend. What happens, however, is a connection neither of them can deny, even as much as they want to. A Housemate!Phan au.

Practice Makes Perfect (ao3) - winstonlives

Summary: Phil said he would paint Dan’s nails in a live show, and doesn’t think much of it until Dan finds someone else to do it. Dan is surprised and amused at Phil’s reaction.

Reflections (ao3) - howlthenight

Summary: After the US TATINOF tour, the guys decide it's time for a day at the beach.

“This is perfection, isn’t it?” says Dan peacefully, feeling what he assumes others consider the lightness of being. Phil makes a noise of agreement. Serenity permeates the air. A cruise ship appears as if it’s sitting at the edge of the ocean. They dig their toes into the sand.

Ring It On (ao3) - ahappyphil

Summary: @danielhowell: come hang out with dizzle and pizzle while we tell you the true life tale of how phil desecrated our marriage

seasons change (ao3) - sadlybunny

Summary: The boy is irresistible. He’s got that “couldn’t be bothered” attitude that has always intrigued Phil, always made him want to know Danny a little bit better. Phil knows falling in love with his best friend’s younger brother is wrong. But he just can’t seem to do the right thing.

The Boy In The Garden (ao3) - orphan_account

Summary: Dan Howell and Phil Lester had nothing in common. But when the two of them end up working together in the abandoned school garden, will friendship- or something more- develop between them?

the money summits - LetGladnessDwell

Summary:

You might think you’re talking about numbers, but it’s always more than that, Kath had said.

(Or, what Dan and Phil talk about when they talk about money.)

You push all my buttons down. (I know life would suck without you) (ao3) - sinking_wthatship

Summary: Dan and Phil are together, but they have a fight. They don’t speak (only to argue), and have to film a video together. They act civil and what not but it is obvious that they aren’t as close. After the filming, there is a lot of sexual tension, so Phil kisses Dan and it ends up as angry/make-up sex.

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

🦇 Those We Drown Book Review 🦇

Rating: ⭐⭐ 🦇 When Liv gains the opportunity to study abroad a luxury cruise ship for a semester on scholarship, she feels fortunate--albeit out-of-place among the six other wealthy students participating in the Seamester program. When her best friend goes missing their first night aboard, supposedly sick and under quarantine, Liv struggles to focus on anything else. He was last seen with one of The Sirens, a trio of stunning, mysterious influencers promoting the cruise. Between Liv's haunting dreams, strange hallucinations, and outbursts in her attempt to find will, everyone thinks she's sleep-deprived and hysterical...but what if the luxury surrounding them comes at a price?

💜 Amy's Goldsmith's debut novel plays homage to Greek mythology and ancient stories of sacrifice in exchange for wealth, youth, and glory. However, many of the references are a little too obvious. Since the main character is oblivious to most of the references, almost everything needs to be spelled out.

🦇 Liv is a frustrating heroine to follow, too. People spend every second of the novel gaslighting her--even to the end--until she no longer believes herself. The story's trajectory is obvious from the very beginning (anyone who was obsessed with Nancy Drew or Sherlock Holmes as a child can guess the premise the moment the Sirens are mentioned), yet Liv remains oblivious even when the truth is directly in front of her. Even after a visual reveal, she still wavers between knowing something's wrong and disbelief. There's a lot of inconsistency in the writing as well. For starters, the "students" never spend a second studying. Some scenes jump abruptly without explanation. The same details are repeated over and over, yet there are some occurrences that never get an explanation. The characters are either flat or inconsistent; none are fleshed out. Liv can't seem to decide if she loathes certain characters, has a crush on them, or envies them. While this is categorized as "horror," nothing was scary so much as frustrating.

🦇 Recommended for someone looking for an easy read between more intense stories.

Tropes Debut Novel "Horror" YA Mythology References

🦇 Major thanks to the author and publisher for providing an ARC of this book via Netgalley. 🥰 This does not affect my opinion regarding the book.

[brightbeautifulthings]

Those We Drown by Amy Goldsmith

"He made it sound so simple--a girl there one moment, gone the next. But if this trip had taught me anything, it was that people didn't disappear. Things happened to them. Usually bad things."

Year Read: 2023

Rating: 2/5

About: Liv is the only scholarship student aboard the cruise ship, Eos, for an educational program called SeaMester that could be her ticket into a good college. The first night, her best friend, Will, becomes sick enough to be quarantined. The more days pass without hearing from him, the more convinced Liv becomes that something terrible is happening on the ship-- and that Will may no longer be aboard at all. As her paranoia increases, she fears that even the staff and her cohort may be part of a conspiracy of human sacrifices and old gods. I received a free e-ARC through NetGalley from the publishers at Delacorte Press. Trigger warnings: human sacrifice, abduction, injury, illness, gaslighting, classism, threats, bullying, underage drinking.

Thoughts: Everything about this, from the title and the description to the tentacles on the cover, said this book should have been for me. Watching The Beast (1996) as a kid with my dad instilled an early love in me for water monsters. Unfortunately, Those We Drown promises way more than it delivers. What little ocean horror we have is sadly underutilized, and the plot is much more focused on spiraling into paranoia and conspiracy than it is on diving into its world-building in any depth. By the time anything remotely full of teeth and tentacles appeared, not only did I no longer care, I had no idea what basis it even had for being there. Something something old gods and sacrifices. If you have a giant squid on the page and it doesn't attack anyone, what was even the point?

Instead, most of the page-time is devoted to Liv hating her rich cohort, obsessing about her ill-fated romance with Will, obsessing about yet another love/hate potential romance in Con, and chasing around increasingly ridiculous conspiracy theories. Does she have good reason for that? Yeah, absolutely. There is something nefarious aboard the Eos. But the reader came into the novel with that knowledge, and the whole is she being gaslit or is she genuinely unhinged cycle gets tired quick. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: paranoia is a difficult mood to sustain for any length of time, and it didn't endear me to Liv. Pull it together and have a little dignity, girl.

On a writing level, it reads like a first novel. That's not necessarily a bad thing, and the target YA audience probably won't be put off by it. Adult readers like myself might struggle a bit more. The descriptions are frequent and a bit forced, and there are some grammar and continuity errors. The first I can never help noticing (sentence fragments for days, and not as a style choice), but the second have to be glaringly obvious for me to pick up on them, since my general attitude is that time is more like a soup than a line. It makes Liv's character seem wildly inconsistent at times, though, when she walks into a glittering party going yes, this opulence suits me, to scorning it the next morning.

As I said, there's little coherent explanation of the supernatural elements, and the finale is left hugely open-ended, as if Goldsmith got so deep into her plot conspiracies that she couldn't write her way out of them. Given the complete lack of closure or explanation, I would say it reads more like the first book in a series than a standalone, but it's not billed or listed as such. Regardless, if books don't have plot closure, they should at least have thematic closure, or some general sense of why the readers and characters went through all of this. Those We Drown has none of those.

[dapurinthos]

the last voyage of the demeter makes me want to write a vampire horror set on a cruise ship. maybe especially on one of those quarantined cruise ships during the beginning of covid because what better way to hide a vampire than in a population that's already weakening from a disease?

[chikainhtm]

BLOG 4: THE CRUISE INDUSTRY, AND ME!

The cruise industry has all kinds of services that work together to create a memorable vacation experience. They have hotels, restaurants, casinos, theatres art galleries, entertainment, and excursions when the ship docks. Every part of a cruise is built to keep passengers busy, entertained, and feeling like they put their money to good use.

The impact cruises have on local communities is both good and bad. It brings thousands of passengers to local areas, which can really help the economy in these locations. Although, Some places struggle with overcrowding, environmental issues, and being too dependent on cruise traffic.

For years, norovirus was the big worry on cruises. The virus spread quickly in the close quarters, leading to outbreaks that send passengers to the infirmary. To prevent this, cruise lines put in place a lot of extra cleaning, food safety protocols, and awareness campaigns. When COVID-19 happened, that changed how the whole industry functioned. While norovirus affects the stomach and is usually a short-term issue, COVID is a much bigger concern. It spreads through the air and is way more serious. Cruise lines had to totally rethink their health protocols. Testing, quarantine, mask-wearing, and vaccination requirements were put into the forefront of the industry's mind. The transition from worrying about a stomach bug to worrying about a global pandemic was a huge shift, and the cruise industry had to adapt accordindly.

My major is ADPR and the cruise industry and advertising go hand in hand. It’s all about selling an experience. Cruises spend a ton of money on ads. TV commercials, social media, or brochures. Public relations also plays a big role. When things go wrong (like an outbreak or a safety issue), cruise lines work hard to maintain their image and show the public they’re taking care of the problem. Without great advertising and PR, the cruise industry wouldn’t be nearly as successful as it is today.

[plumbingpackbacker]

Just had this weird dream where I had some surgeries that apparently were very precision oriented and not only I but everyone working in the OR had to be unclothed for some reason. Not only that, but my recovery was set to take place onboard a cruise ship with my girlfriend that I guess I’d just met joining me.

Cruise starts ok but as we’re on maybe day 2 or so news of Covid-19 starts coming out and in my dream I realize it is the time period where they trap us on the ship in early Covid days and quarantine everyone.

Also I have a giant motorized pool noodle and a little tykes tricycle that I’ve figured out how to combine and bring to ride on land, sand, or water.

Don’t know who the girlfriend was. Just a conglomeration of women I’ve found attractive over the years and their qualities. Main things I remember were she was cute, petite, and very kind to everyone.

Anyway…going back to sleep.

[rauthschild]

Cruise ship with 3,000 people aboard in quarantine off Mauritius

[ink-tank]

Forty-two hours ago a message came through over the comm, hard to decipher against the background of static: “This is Doctor Aguillard of the Earth-registered spaceship Baldr, requesting emergency medical assistance. All passengers and crew are quarantined due to an outbreak of an unidentified disease. Morbidity rate unknown. Two fatalities.” Interference from the roiling debris of the Kuiper Belt made the rest of the transmission unintelligibly choppy and distorted.

So now I'm piloting my little medical research rocket to intercept the ship. As the head of the Solar Community Communicable Disease Centre on Charon, asteroid-borne diseases are my speciality.

Zephyrius, sitting in the co-pilot chair, swivels their spherical head to look at me. The digital display the robot has for a face shows its characteristically cheery grin, despite the situation. “Doctor Forrest, we're fifteen minutes from interception. Magnifying on the viewscreen.”

In the lonely darkness here in the back end of nothing, I don't expect to see a big tourist cruise liner covered with twinkling portholes, topped with a sun-deck under glass, and with a rainbow painted across the whole length of its hull. Its engine exhausts flare purple as it speeds towards the edge of the solar system. What are they even doing all the way out here? It isn't like there's any sightseeing, and nobody's getting a tan seven billion kilometres from the sun.

“Scanning the ship's registry," Zee says. “It's got three pools, six bars, eight restaurants, and a spa.”

“All good vectors for disease transmission. People pressed up against each other in horribly moist environments.”

Zee's digital smile broadens. “No, I mean you can finally get the rest and relaxation you need, to avoid the workplace burnout you are currently hurtling towards!”

“This is a medical emergency. We're not here to have fun.”

“I only mean that you might want a dip and a dance after you quickly and effectively deal with it. After all, there's nobody more qualified than you in seventeen-hundred million kilometres.”

This is technically true, although out here it isn't saying much.

“If anyone's still alive on there.”

“It's been less than two days. Chances are good!”

[darksidestudio]

Title: Shadows on the Bayou (2.0)

Chapter 1: The Calm Before the Storm

The sun hung low in the sky, casting an eerie glow over the luxurious cruise ship, The Southern Belle. It was a floating paradise, filled with opulence and extravagance. But tonight, the ship was a prison, trapped in a quarantine lockdown off the coast of New Orleans, Louisiana.

Among the passengers was Harold Thompson, a retired janitor who had spent his life cleaning up after others. As he gazed out at the dark waters, he couldn't help but feel a sense of unease. The ship had become a breeding ground for fear and suspicion, as a series of gruesome murders had plagued the vessel.

Harold had always been a dreamer, and in his fantasies, he had imagined himself as a gumshoe detective, solving crimes and bringing justice to the world. Now, with the ship in chaos, he saw an opportunity to live out his secret desires.

Chapter 2: The First Victim

The first murder had occurred just two days into the quarantine. A young woman, her body found in a pool of blood in her cabin. The ship's crew had been quick to dismiss it as an isolated incident, blaming it on a lover's quarrel gone wrong. But Harold knew better.

Armed with a notepad and a magnifying glass, Harold began his investigation. He questioned the crew, listened to the whispers of the passengers, and scoured the crime scene for any clues. The more he dug, the more he realized that there was something sinister lurking beneath the surface.

Chapter 3: Secrets Unveiled

As Harold delved deeper into the case, he discovered a web of secrets and lies. Each passenger had something to hide, and it seemed that everyone had a motive for murder. The ship became a pressure cooker, with tensions rising and paranoia spreading like wildfire.

Harold's obsession with the case consumed him. He spent sleepless nights piecing together the puzzle, connecting the dots, and following leads that led him down dark corridors and hidden compartments. But the closer he got to the truth, the more dangerous his investigation became.

Chapter 4: The Final Showdown

With each passing day, the body count rose, and Harold's determination grew stronger. He knew that time was running out, and he had to catch the killer before they struck again. The ship had become a labyrinth of fear, and Harold found himself trapped in a deadly game of cat and mouse.

As the ship made its final approach to New Orleans, Harold confronted the killer in a dramatic showdown. The truth was revealed, shocking everyone on board. The murderer, driven by a twisted desire for power and control, had used the quarantine as a cover for their heinous crimes.

Chapter 5: Reflections

In the aftermath of the chaos, Harold found himself hailed as a hero. The passengers praised his bravery and dedication, but deep down, he knew that he had merely stumbled upon the truth. He had always been a janitor, a man who cleaned up messes, but for a brief moment, he had become the detective he had always fantasized about.

Shadows on the Bayou was a tale of suspense and deception, a psychological thriller that explored the depths of human nature. And as Harold walked away, he couldn't help but wonder if he had truly escaped the shadows, or if they would forever follow him wherever he went.

As the ship docked in New Orleans, Harold stepped onto solid ground, leaving behind the horrors that had unfolded on The Southern Belle. But the memories would forever haunt him, a reminder that even in the most luxurious of settings, darkness could lurk just beneath the surface.

[mirandamckenni1]

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[lexi27666]

I feel like I have been neglecting this blog so much recently my side blog as well I do intend to post more a lot on both vlogs but life has been crazy...so I will be back 💖 on Tumblr regularly very soon but until then I will be doing what I normally do when I'm stuck for ideas and post random facts

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[thebrokencrescent-blog]

📆 02 May 2020 📰 How Mass Hysteria Is Making Coronavirus Worse Than It Actually Is ✍�� Joon Yun 🗞 Worth

Another concern circulating on social media right now comes out of the fact that 705 people associated with the quarantined cruise ship Diamond Princess, which embarked on January 20, have been confirmed to have contracted the coronavirus and seven people have died. Some have argued that this represents a “true” 1 percent case fatality rate of SARS-CoV2.

Upon closer examination, a lot of the details about the demography and the deaths in the Diamond Princess cases have remained somewhat fuzzy. At the very least, it should be noted that most of the deaths so far have been among people in their 80s. It should also be noted that the annual death rate of an average person in their 80s is about 10 percent. That means that if you were to quarantine any random group of 705 people in their 80s, about seven of them would have passed away by day 41, which today is the number of days that has passed since January 20. To repeat, the actual demographic details about the 705 confirmed cases from the Diamond Princess remain unknown.

What happens from here is hard to predict. My guess is that the case counts will peak and be revised downward after the mass hysteria subsides. That’s what happened after the 2002 to 2003 SARS-CoV1 mini-pandemic—a self-defeating oxymoron—when widespread fear engulfed humanity, leading to doomsday-is-here behaviors.

On May 7, 2003, the CDC reported a total of 328 SARS cases in the U.S., which fit the ongoing panic narrative at the time. By July 15, the CDC reported a total of 418 cases. In the cold light of day after the mass hysteria ended, the CDC quietly retreated the final official tally to eight serologically confirmed cases of SARS-CoV1 in the United States and no deaths. Keep in mind that for eight people to have a virus in a country as large as America, there were probably thousands if not millions who had mild or asymptomatic infections.

What is more predictable is that this type of mass hysteria will recur every few years. So far, we have not witnessed fear pandemics recurring in consecutive years, possibly because exposure to the fear provides some immunity to the fear year-over-year. However, given the cadence of mass hysterias about deadly panics that we have seen over the past 25 years since the birth of the internet, it is unlikely that the inoculation will last much beyond a year and the protection from panic will require exposure to a booster dose in the not-too-distant future.

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