No. of Recommendations: 3
To be fair to the Canary Islands, the ship probably needs to off-load in a 1st world country that can handle quarantine protocols. I've been to the Canaries, and they are lovely. I'm not sure they are set up for this sort of crisis (don't really know since we didn't have to utilize their emergency medical services). They keep their people safe by not letting anyone visit them (e.g. during COVID).
Hanta is transmitted via rodent droppings (primarily). It is sort of an indictment of this cruise line that they have rodents on their ship(s). I've never seen one on the many cruises we have taken over the years. They have safeguards to prevent them boarding (e.g. barriers on the mooring lines).
However, I do agree that getting rid of disease specialists, emergency response specialists, and the like, is ill-advised. We hired those folks for a reason, and funded their departments for a reason. If we fire them all, those reasons will almost certainly become apparent, and we won't have the folks in place to deal with them.
