Governor opposes letting ship with 189 sick people dock in South Florida

1SG (Join to see) I am sure that there is a better spot, but it is the number three cruise ship port by volume of passengers - worldwide, after Port of Miami and Port Canaveral. Tampa is way down at number 29. You would think that they would have thought about situations like this long before it happening. Interesting in that Miami and Lauderdale/Everglades are home ports for this cruise line and one of its headquarters is Miami.

Good point, why is anyone left on a cruise ship - because their scheduled ports of call, including their home ports will not let them land.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_busiest_cruise_ports_by_passengers

PFC Michael Korach This cruise line is home ported in Port of Miami and in Port Everglades; and Port Everglades is one of its initial ports. The address of its berthing dock is 1850 Eller Dr, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316.

MSG Tom Earley - Actually the departure point for the two cruises that have that port of call in Chile is Fort Lauderdale with one ending in Buenos Aries, and the other one the end point is back at Fort Lauderdale.
All you have to do to verify that is to go to their website and check the itinerary.

MSG Tom Earley - In a way both of us were wrong about the departure point. However the departure point for this particular cruise was Buenos Aires with Fort Lauderdale as the final destination. According to one of the articles (probably more) some of the passengers were on a shorter cruise with the destination being San Antonio (Santiago), Chile.
Excerpt from article: "The cruise on the Zaandam was scheduled to last 14 days, embarking from Buenos Aires, Argentina, on March 7. For some passengers, the cruise would end after 14 days in San Antonio, Chile. For others, it was due to April 7 in Fort Lauderdale. Those plans were diverted because of the coronavirus pandemic, and the cruise ship rerouted its course to sail north to an undetermined destination."
Now with a better picture of the itinerary and with the information gained from Holland America's web site, that this trip is the opposite or flip of the trip originating in Fort Lauderdale and ending in Buenos Aires with a blending of shorter cruises into the single trip by a ship. As an example, one of the 14 day South America Passage cruises is a sub cruise of the 33 day Inca & South America Discovery cruise, which originates in Los Angeles and ends in Buenos Aires, with the sub-cruise originating in Santiago (Chile) and ending in Buenos Aires, with a flip on the next set from Buenos Aires to Los Angeles.

Anyway, with that in mind, they should be allowed to land in Florida.
As far as facilities, what about using one or more of the "cruise port hotels" as a quarantine center? The Hampton Inn Fort Lauderdale Airport North Cruise Port has 151 rooms. Why not start there? It is not that difficult to come up with a reasonable solution whether some people find it acceptable, like it, or not.

And if anymore people die on this ship, they should attribute their death to stupidity and not COVID-19. Even if they die from something other than COVID-19, COVID-19 will still be the cause of death; and that is stupidity and ignorance in their highest forms.

MSG Tom Earley - Since there seems to be a high level disagreement in that discussion, they are making the situation worse rather than better.