Cruise ship with more than 1,400 passengers is not being allowed to dock in Florida; 4 people have died. “We cannot afford to have people who are not even Floridians dumped into South Florida using up those valuable resources,” the governor says.
“People are getting sick and they need proper medical attention in a hospital, they cannot be treated onboard,” Anderson said. “The people on this boat, we are all someone’s parent, grandparent, aunt, and uncle. The governor should think ‘what if my mother was on that boat?’”
The cruise ships, run by Carnival Corp.'s Holland America Line, disembarked from Buenos Aires, Argentina, on March 8 for a two week cruise through South America and was scheduled to end in Chile on March 21 before they were shut out by the country. “It’s a lot of pressure,” she said, adding that life feels like the movie ‘Waterworld’ since she hasn’t touched land in weeks.
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