On Thursday, March 19th, a cruise ship called “Ruby Princess” was allowed to dock in Sydney and all passengers were allowed to disembark. Four people went straight to hospital and tested positive for COVID-19.
The storm had just begun.
As of yesterday, March 24th, 133 people (107 in New South Wales and 26 interstate) have COVID-19. One person has already died and experts reckon this will get worse.
The PM blamed NSW Heath and NSW Health blamed Border Force. This is what happens when you have people employed in positions who don’t question the status quo. This isn’t the time to just do your job like you’ve always done and to just listen to the people above you.
This is the time to be brave and ask questions.
NSW Health asked the ship Doctor for a report on sickness, and deemed the ship low risk based on the report.
Border Force just carried out what NSW Health told them. But NSW Health is not protecting our borders, Border Force is. So they had one job to protect our borders and failed.
Don’t let the people off the ship and demand that NSW Health come in and do swabs on all of them.
And for NSW Health to trust the ships Doctor.
Seriously. How fucking negligible?
These kind of doctors are not trustworthy because they work for a corporation who is in the business of making money and who also pays the Doctor their wage.
The ship couldn’t afford to be quarantined, so it wouldn’t be surprising that they would advise the Doctor to report what they need to report, in order to operate.
Because after it docked, the “Ruby Princess” reloaded with new passengers and set sail again on the same cruise to New Zealand.
Talk about spreading the disease.
The intro to “Among The Living” which goes for almost two minutes, is as good as any Megadeth or Metallica or Slayer cut.
And Anthrax were one of the first acts to branch out and merge metal with hard core. Of course the metal elitists hated them for it, but in the 90’s with John Bush on vocals, they delivered some of the best metal albums of that decade with “Sound Of White Noise” and “Stomp 442”.
Disease, Disease, Spreading the disease, with some help from Captain Trips, he’ll bring the world down to his knees
destroyerofharmony 
Who knew Anthrax with that name for a band and an album called Spreading The Disease would be relevant in 2020.
You’re right about the Ships Doc. He’s on the payroll so what his company tells him to say he says it.
Classic example of cooking the books so to speak. In other words lying which may cost lives.
Anthrax just keeps popping up hey..
but seriously how stupid can people be to let these people in that easily.
Call in the Lynch Mob Pete!
When I saw the title I was actually expecting this to related to Queensryche song “Spreading the Disease”, but Anthrax works.
Man, Queensryche totally slipped my mind.
Thanks for this great post! Couldn’t agree more with your perspective towards NSW Health regarding the cruise ship. I have also recently published an article on my blog regarding the Ruby Princess cruise ship disaster and my thoughts. If you have time, it would be great if you could check it out and let me know your thoughts! Thank you very much 🙂