{"id":176740,"date":"2020-03-31T21:53:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T02:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/03\/31\/they-are-keeping-sailors-confined-to-a-plague-ship\/"},"modified":"2020-03-31T21:53:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T02:53:00","slug":"they-are-keeping-sailors-confined-to-a-plague-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/03\/31\/they-are-keeping-sailors-confined-to-a-plague-ship\/","title":{"rendered":"They are Keeping Sailors Confined to a Plague Ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>It&#8217;s the USS Theodore Roosevelt, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/bayarea\/article\/Exclusive-Captain-of-aircraft-carrier-with-15167883.php\">its skipper is begging for its crew to be put ashore<\/a> because of a Covid-19 outbreak:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The captain of a nuclear aircraft carrier with more than 100 sailors infected with the coronavirus pleaded Monday with U.S. Navy officials for resources to allow isolation of his entire crew and avoid possible deaths in a situation he described as quickly deteriorating.<\/p>\n<p>The unusual plea from Capt. Brett Crozier, a Santa Rosa native, came in a letter obtained exclusively by The Chronicle and confirmed by a senior officer on board the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt, which has been docked in Guam following a COVID-19 outbreak among the crew of more than 4,000 less than a week ago. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will require a political solution but it is the right thing to do,\u201d Crozier wrote. \u201cWe are not at war. Sailors do not need to die. If we do not act now, we are failing to properly take care of our most trusted asset \u2014 our Sailors.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>In the four-page letter to senior military officials, Crozier said only a small contingent of infected sailors have been off-boarded. Most of the crew remain aboard the ship, where following official guidelines for 14-day quarantines and social distancing is impossible.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Mark Cancian, a Marine colonel who served for 37 years before retiring, said that \u201cthe Navy has got to figure out how to do this right or else they can\u2019t deploy the rest of the fleet.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the USS Theodore Roosevelt, and its skipper is begging for its crew to be put ashore because of a Covid-19 outbreak: The captain of a nuclear aircraft carrier with more than 100 sailors infected with the coronavirus pleaded Monday with U.S. Navy officials for resources to allow isolation of his entire crew and avoid &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[588,379,445,572,460],"class_list":["post-176740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-fail","tag-military","tag-naval","tag-pandemic","tag-public-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176740"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}