California Governor Newsom has been insisting that it must be deployed to LA immediately. He’s gonna throw a hissy fit. [image] Navy Hospital Ship Mercy Expected to Head to Seattle as Part of Pentagon... SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH-19) was a hub of activity Thursday…

[image] ShooterMcGavin: If true, that’s seriously disappointing. <sigh> Navy seems to be pretty good at disappointing people lately.

i’m surprised this has not caused more news. Also curious to know if it were a BNSF or some local switcher train as I have not been able to find much elsewhere.

Mostly due to the low usage of USNS COMFORT in New York because of mandatory pre-embarkation coronavirus testing the USN is about to do something awful: [image] Military Weighs Risks of Taking COVID-19 Patients Aboard Hospital Ships If the hospital ships start taking coronavirus patients …

I perused the comment section of the NYT article on the low patient numbers aboard as of a few days ago…most comments were critical, to be polite, of the procedure to embark patients who had to be tested for COVID 19 prior to transfer from a shoreside facility. It appears the deployment of hospital…

Those two ships will get infected eventually. It’s a matter of when not if and how MSC and the Navy will deal with it.

Agreed, but how it happens and whether it will degrade their mission capability seems to be the question.

[image] dry_fly: t appears the deployment of hospital ships is viewed as a political stunt by most readers; they seem to miss the fact they are trauma centers, not isolation wards. Put yourself in the mind of a frightened New Yorker holed up in a tiny apartment for two weeks now, in a city ne…

We all need to take a deep breath, this is a rapidly developing situation. The issue with the COMFORT is being addressed. The slow start has been due to patient screening/testing taking place in city hospitals which has placed a burden on them. This is being corrected as we speak; the process will…

[image] Lee_Shore: 85,000 and 22,000 from out of state. They are genuine heroes. We can’t thank these people enough. Amen. :grinning:

[image] Seattle: i’m surprised this has not caused more news. Also curious to know if it were a BNSF or some local switcher train as I have not been able to find much elsewhere. It was a local shortline that serves the port, Pacific Harbor Line. [image] PHL – Pacific Harbor Line …

The USNS Mercy is headed to Seattle

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Steamer April 7, 2020, 4:02pm 56

Well, no point in responding to garbage. It looks like we have another of the bizarro types joining in conspiricy theories and alien encounter style explanations.

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The USNS Mercy is headed to Seattle

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