Why cruises kept sailing despite coronavirus dangers

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🗓️ 25 March 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Cruise ships continued to sail as the coronavirus spread. Beth Reinhard explains why. Michael Scherer reports on the awkwardness of campaigning during a pandemic. And Simon Denyer on how Japan is handling covid-19.

Cruises didn’t stop operations until it was too late. Health experts are asking why.

How do you campaign for president during a pandemic?

Japan is handling the coronavirus in its own way. Here’s what that looks like.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:05.0	Hi, good afternoon. This is Tulu, or Roneeco with the Washington Post.
0:09.0	Hi, this is Amy Britton, calling me the post.
0:11.0	This is Peter J. Vison from the Washington Post.
0:13.0	This is Post Reports. I'm Martine Powers.
0:17.0	It's Wednesday, March 25th.
0:21.0	Today, the cruise industry's missed opportunity,
0:26.0	campaigning in the age of coronavirus,
0:28.0	and how Japan is flattening the curve.
0:36.0	So when we think back to the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak,
0:44.0	I feel like at least for me, what made me start to take it more seriously
0:49.0	or realize that this was a more widespread problem,
0:53.0	extending out past China was what happened to the Diamond Princess, the cruise ship.
0:58.0	Hi, everyone. Still onboard a Diamond Princess?
1:02.0	39 more people aboard that quarantine cruise ship docked in Yokohama, Japan.
1:07.0	It's one of the last scenarios one imagines when booking a cruise vacation.
1:11.0	It used to hearing COVID-19.
1:14.0	This was a ship that left out of the Tokyo area,
1:18.0	and found itself moored off the coast of Japan for weeks on end,
1:24.0	100 tested positive.
1:27.0	And this in the public consciousness sort of became like the most nightmare situation.
1:32.0	People could imagine being on a cruise ship, unable to get off,
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