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    Turns out dodging taxes and seeking lax labor laws has a cost. Who knew?

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    Coast Guard Tells Cruise Ships With COVID-19 Cases To Stay Away From U.S. Ports


    The U.S. Coast Guard is telling foreign-flagged cruise ships to be prepared to care for people with COVID-19 for an "indefinite period of time" at sea or to seek help from countries other than the U.S., citing a health care system that is being overwhelmed. The instructions are in a new safety bulletin that took effect this week along the southern Atlantic coast, including Florida – which is reporting more than 6,700 coronavirus cases, as of Tuesday evening.

    If a cruise ship must send someone ashore for medical care, its owner will be responsible for essentially every step of the trip, from arranging an evacuation to hiring a private ambulance and ensuring the person has a spot in a hospital. But the Coast Guard bulletin, signed by Rear Adm. E.C. Jones of the 7th District based in Miami, also says it could be difficult to find any facility in South Florida that can take new COVID-19 patients.

    "Medical facilities in the Port of Miami, for example, are no longer accepting MEDEVAC patients due to limited hospital capacity and it is expected that neighboring counties will follow suit," wrote Jones, whose Coast Guard district includes Florida, Puerto Rico, Georgia and South Carolina.

    The new medical requirements apply to any vessel carrying more than 50 people. It also singles out cruise ships that are registered in the Bahamas – referring to many of the ships owned by large cruise lines such as Carnival, Royal Caribbean and Norwegian.

    Foreign-flagged ships are the norm in the cruise industry. By registering ships in the Bahamas, Panama and other countries, cruise companies can avoid U.S. taxes as well as employment and environmental laws. But now, the Coast Guard is telling those companies that their ships should seek medical care in the countries where they are registered, rather than rely on the U.S.

    "Foreign flagged vessels that loiter beyond U.S. territorial seas, particularly those registered to The Bahamas, that require a MEDEVAC to a shoreside facility should seek flag state support prior to seeking support from the limited facilities in the U.S.," Jones wrote.

    The cruise ship industry is currently under a 30-day suspension of all trips from the U.S. that took effect on March 14. But dozens of ships remain at sea.

    https://www.npr.org/sections/coronav...from-u-s-ports

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    Turns out dodging taxes and seeking lax labor laws has a cost. Who knew?

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    Coast Guard Tells Cruise Ships With COVID-19 Cases To Stay Away From U.S. Ports


    The U.S. Coast Guard is telling foreign-flagged cruise ships to be prepared to care for people with COVID-19 for an "indefinite period of time" at sea or to seek help from countries other than the U.S., citing a health care system that is being overwhelmed. The instructions are in a new safety bulletin that took effect this week along the southern Atlantic coast, including Florida – which is reporting more than 6,700 coronavirus cases, as of Tuesday evening.

    If a cruise ship must send someone ashore for medical care, its owner will be responsible for essentially every step of the trip, from arranging an evacuation to hiring a private ambulance and ensuring the person has a spot in a hospital. But the Coast Guard bulletin, signed by Rear Adm. E.C. Jones of the 7th District based in Miami, also says it could be difficult to find any facility in South Florida that can take new COVID-19 patients.

    "Medical facilities in the Port of Miami, for example, are no longer accepting MEDEVAC patients due to limited hospital capacity and it is expected that neighboring counties will follow suit," wrote Jones, whose Coast Guard district includes Florida, Puerto Rico, Georgia and South Carolina.

    The new medical requirements apply to any vessel carrying more than 50 people. It also singles out cruise ships that are registered in the Bahamas – referring to many of the ships owned by large cruise lines such as Carnival, Royal Caribbean and Norwegian.

    Foreign-flagged ships are the norm in the cruise industry. By registering ships in the Bahamas, Panama and other countries, cruise companies can avoid U.S. taxes as well as employment and environmental laws. But now, the Coast Guard is telling those companies that their ships should seek medical care in the countries where they are registered, rather than rely on the U.S.

    "Foreign flagged vessels that loiter beyond U.S. territorial seas, particularly those registered to The Bahamas, that require a MEDEVAC to a shoreside facility should seek flag state support prior to seeking support from the limited facilities in the U.S.," Jones wrote.

    The cruise ship industry is currently under a 30-day suspension of all trips from the U.S. that took effect on March 14. But dozens of ships remain at sea.

    https://www.npr.org/sections/coronav...from-u-s-ports
    In the end, we'll fold & let 'em in.

    We always do. We say "no" then "yes." That's how Obama did it for 8 years.

    Now Trump is following that same tired old bag regimen.

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    When this is over Micky Arison isn’t going to have a pot to piss in.

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    When this is over Micky Arison isn’t going to have a pot to piss in.
    He's got a boodle of American cash stashed away for a rainy day just like this. He'll be fine.

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    When this is over Micky Arison isn’t going to have a pot to piss in.
    Sure he will. Trump wants to bail them out.

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    If you go on a cruise ing March 7th than you're a known spreader as far as I care. I can't think of a bigger You I Got Mine gesture than going on a cruise with thousands of others in close proximity as the world burns around you in a crippling pandemic. Oh well it won't be too bad for me... you, you're spreading it makes it bad for others and accelerates the deaths of our hospitals if we have to clean your up now. I wouldn't let any of them in at Florida, not even the US citizens. Go back to ing Argentina where the ship took off from or go to the home country of The Bahamas or Liberia or wherever the the cruise line is incorporated.

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    Sure he will. Trump wants to bail them out.
    yep, probably on a later bailout round. Trash scaring them into bigger campaign contributions

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    He's got a boodle of American cash stashed away for a rainy day just like this. He'll be fine.
    Plus he has game 6.

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    If you go on a cruise ing March 7th than you're a known spreader as far as I care. I can't think of a bigger You I Got Mine gesture than going on a cruise with thousands of others in close proximity as the world burns around you in a crippling pandemic. Oh well it won't be too bad for me... you, you're spreading it makes it bad for others and accelerates the deaths of our hospitals if we have to clean your up now. I wouldn't let any of them in at Florida, not even the US citizens. Go back to ing Argentina where the ship took off from or go to the home country of The Bahamas or Liberia or wherever the the cruise line is incorporated.
    the bum

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    If you go on a cruise ing March 7th than you're a known spreader as far as I care. I can't think of a bigger You I Got Mine gesture than going on a cruise with thousands of others in close proximity as the world burns around you in a crippling pandemic. Oh well it won't be too bad for me... you, you're spreading it makes it bad for others and accelerates the deaths of our hospitals if we have to clean your up now. I wouldn't let any of them in at Florida, not even the US citizens. Go back to ing Argentina where the ship took off from or go to the home country of The Bahamas or Liberia or wherever the the cruise line is incorporated.
    The idiot that I have to train at my job had a cruise scheduled. It was canceled of course.

    He is a ing idiot and lied in his job interview. Dude is just a few years older than I am, and after we hired his dumb ass I found out, to my horror, that he didn't know how to use a PC. At all. My dad knows more about how to use his laptop than this guy. , but my boss made it my job to teach this guy. He didn't know how to create and name file folders... Stuff that it takes me 5 minutes to do in excel, takes him 45, WITH help.

    Tried to tell him in the beginning how bad this was going to get and he said "quit being a pants- ter". He doesn't say about that now.

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    In the end, we'll fold & let 'em in.

    We always do. We say "no" then "yes." That's how Obama did it for 8 years.

    Now Trump is following that same tired old bag regimen.
    Not sure what this has to do with The Colored's policies, but you found a nut


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    Good! the cruise ships. They aren't registered to the states and hire nothing but foreigners so them and let the countries they pay help them instead.

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    Good! the cruise ships. They aren't registered to the states and hire nothing but foreigners so them and let the countries they pay help them instead.
    We gonna bail em out anyways

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    Well, Pence did tell American it's OK to go on their cruises.

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    We gonna bail em out anyways
    I know and it's ing stupid.

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    Lot of cruise ships still out there

    https://www.vesselfinder.com


    Use settings and turn off all but cruise ships

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