I see the passenger was from the Diamond Princess and elderly, so he would have been one of the high risk patients, unfortunately.
I am very suspicious of the sheer number of passengers on that ship who came down with it, even though they were placed in quarantine within the ship. I suspect the air conditioning might have helped spread the virus. You can't turn it off or control it, not in the inside cabins anyway.
I was reading that Australian school cleaners were recently sent emails inviting them to a top job, short term (6 days I think) good pay, free travel, protective clothing supplied.
It was to be flown in to clean the Diamond Princess.
Now, that's a worry. I worked in schools for years, got to know the cleaners well. You do, you chat to them all the time as they go about their work before & after school. I know that the companies that employ them allow very little time to do the job, as in, they only get paid for a set amount of hours at the school, it is not top pay and the calculated hours tend to be on the optimistic side.
One of the cleaners told me that after you factored in emptying all bins to the dumper, cleaning toilet blocks, staffroom etc, each classroom needed to be cleaned within about 3-4 minutes.
You know how big a classroom is. That's not a lot of time to vacuum, mop, clean windows, get down cobwebs, clean sinks etc
What are the odds that the company would also be pushing the workers on the Diamond Princess to the max?
Time is money.
Then of course, the cleaners given the job would be coming back to clean schools, mixing it with the kids, staff, parents. Another top idea by someone.
PS Just as a matter of interest, who would be willing to pop onto the Diamond Princess any time soon for a cruise? Not I, not for a few months.
