2 US grad students who were on the Diamond Princess cruise share harrowing details and photos from their quarantine and ‘zombie movie’ evacuation [ARTICLE]

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Spencer Fehrenbacher set sail on the Diamond Princess cruise on January 20. Fehrenbacher and his friend Gordon Christoph, who was also on the cruise, spoke to Business Insider about their experience while finishing their quarantine at Travis Air Force Base in California. "I keep hearkening back to all these zombie movies that have been made over the last decade," Fehrenbacher said. On January 20, Fehrenbacher and Christoph boarded the Diamond Princess in Yokohama, Japan for a vacation that would turn into a nightmare. "Being somebody who doesn't normally spend $42 on a bottle of wine, that was a really nice treat in the middle of a quarantine," Fehrenbacher said. "The first eight days of the quarantine on the cruise ship, my roommate and I were both very focused on remaining supportive, remaining optimistic," Fehrenbacher said. As Fehrenbacher sat in front of his laptop, the CBC reporter introduced him with an update on the cruise ship outbreak: 67 new people had tested positive. Fehrenbacher had been championing the quarantine efforts of Princess Cruises and the Japanese government. The next day, Fehrenbacher and Christoph left the ship with 327 other evacuees, bound for the US. Once back on US soil, they'd face another 14-day quarantine. After the US quarantine, Fehrenbacher planned to go to his parents' home in Canada. "You could tell that the flip between being a passenger who's catered to on a luxury cruise line, versus an evacuee being rescued in the middle of an outbreak that switch hadn't flipped for quite a few people," Fehrenbacher said. "At the very least, I think they should have told us when we were on the tarmac," Fehrenbacher said. Fehrenbacher said he later realized that a woman sitting behind him had also tested positive for the virus: When the plane landed, he said, a CDC official told her she would be continuing to Omaha, Nebraska where the CDC sent the infected Diamond Princess evacuees. Fehrenbacher and Christoph are no longer confined to their room, so they spend much of the day outside on the military base, as do many of the other people under quarantine there. "[It's] somewhere between a zombie movie and summer camp," Fehrenbacher said. Source | Create Website | Criar site | Crear sitio web | Créer un site Web