re: #111 Hecuba’s daughter

The plague cruise ship Zaandam with ill passengers and four deaths was initially barred from traversing the Panama Canal to return to its planned destination of Fort Lauderdale; other ports in Latin America would not allow it to dock. Apparently, Panama Canal has reconsidered and the ship may be able to continue — but there’s no guarantee that Fort Lauderdale will accept it.

Ghost ship.

I can almost see the these ships doing what the Navy did in WW2, taking the bodies of the dead up onto the top deck, giving them honors and salutes, and sliding them into the ocean as war dead, returning them to the sea.

Necessary in WW2, horrific in 2020.