These lines are to commemorate my spectacular failure to win the North Street Book Prize with my 2024 collection “After Spruce: Poems in the Manner of Tom Jenks’ ‘Spruce’ During the Time of the Coronavirus Pandemic”.

Originally published: Poetry and Covid December 2020

#ExperimentalPoetry #poem #poetry #PoetryCollection #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity #Australia #UnitedStates #coronavirus #COVID19 #pandemic #DonaldJTrump #ScottMorrison #GladysBerejiklian #EssentialBusiness #JigsawPuzzle #EmotionalDistancing #WAGs #Roadmap #Quarantini #ImmunityPassport #RubyPrincess #PrePalliative #CoMorbidities #COVIDSafeApp #ChainsOfTransmission #QAnon #protest #AntiVaxxer #TinHat #Prayers

For #SchiffsSamstag here's Ruby Princess as we returned to her by tender boat after a day ashore in Mexico a couple of years ago when we'd been to visit Todos Santos. Ruby is a Grand-class ship and she's our favourite class of cruise ship.

#Travel #Photography #TravelPhotography #Cruise #CruiseShip #SchiffSamstag #ShipSaturday #PrincessCruises #RubyPrincess #Mexico

#Australia should stop arrivals or put in #quarantine anyone from or travelling through the #US due to #Trump government lack of medical response to #contagious #diseases.

#measles #vaccinations

#Covid #RubyPrincess #CruiseShip #disaster waiting to happen all over again #auspol #RFK

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/24/anatomy-of-a-coronavirus-disaster-how-2700-people-were-let-off-the-ruby-princess-cruise-ship-by-mistake

Ruby Princess passengers rejected $15 million COVID settlement, return with a counter-offer of $69 million.

#COVID19NSW #RubyPrincess #Carnival #CruiseShip @auscovid19

Source: https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8513623/ruby-princess-passengers-rejected-15m-covid-settlement/

In light of the recent ruling in the Ruby Princess class action, will businesses and other organisations now start taking their legal responsibility regarding the pandemic seriously, especially as we enter out 9th wave of Covid19 in Australia?

https://www.christopher-james-hall.com/blog/worksafe-law-regulation-covid-19

#Covid19 #RubyPrincess #Pandemic #Law #PublicHealth #ClassAction #Covid #CruiseShip

Good.

These deniers don't care about lives. They literally built disinformation infrastructure founded on ignoring lives.

Cost them MONEY. Lots of money, and now legal precedent.

That's the only thing they understand.

https://www.axios.com/2023/10/25/ruby-princess-passengers-win-class-action-carnival-australia

(Note: This is also why businesses hate class-action lawsuits.)

#covid #covid19 #classaction #RubyPrincess #CruisesAreGrossMan

🇦🇺 NSW, Australia: Ruby Princess passengers win class action lawsuit against Carnival Cruise Lines over COVID outbreak in March 2020.

A trip that ended in 28 deaths and more than 600 others contract the coronavirus.

@nswhealth #RubyPrincess @CarnivalCruise @RyanPark_Keira @auscovid19

Source: https://www.lawyersweekly.com.au/biglaw/38364-judgment-delivered-in-ruby-princess-class-action

Appeal by passengers of cruise ship plagued by COVID-19 taken to High Court.

#COVID19 #RubyPrincess #Carnival @auscovid19

Source: https://www.9news.com.au/national/ruby-princess-lawsuit-appeal-by-passengers-of-cruise-ship-plagued-by-covid19-taken-to-high-court/d97defa4-8978-464f-b203-95c52da77631

Family contracts COVID on board Ruby Princess cruise.

"The family had managed to avoid COVID for the entirety of the pandemic but “ended up with it on this vacation.”

"Her son was placed into isolation to recover in his room after his diagnosis, but the rest of the family was not asked to isolate from fellow passengers. When the family complained that he had contracted the illness on board the ship, their doctor said it was not possible."

"He told me, ‘Are you kidding me, COVID is everywhere. You don’t get it from here"

#COVID19 #RubyPrincess @auscovid19

Source: https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/family-contracts-covid-on-board-ruby-princess-cruise/

"Family contracts COVID on board Ruby Princess cruise... one passenger tells KRON4 that everyone in the family had managed to avoid COVID for the entirety of the pandemic but “ended up with it on this vacation.” #RubyPrincess #cruise #pandemic (Article date: July 9, 2023) https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/family-contracts-covid-on-board-ruby-princess-cruise/?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=referral

If you don't remember, the #RubyPrincess was one of the infamous #plague ships from the beginning of the #pandemic. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-51999845

Ah, the #RubyPrincess, we meet again. #dent #accident #SanFrancisco #cruise #cruising #ship https://abc7news.com/ruby-princess-cruise-sf-pier-crash-san-francisco-collision-27/13472802/

Ruby Princess (a ship we're due to sail on later in the year) has managed to take some damage after hitting the docks at Pier 27 in San Francisco (which is where we'll be sailing from) and what we'd really like Princess to do is this: fix it, fix it now, thank you very much please.

https://abc7news.com/ruby-princess-cruise-sf-pier-crash-san-francisco-collision-27/13468448/

#Cruise #Travel #RubyPrincess #PrincessCruises #SanFrancisco #California

A passenger from the ill-fated Ruby Princess cruise is set to find out whether she’ll go home with compensation, or just COVID-19, after a preliminary win in Australia’s highest court.

#COVID19Aus #RubyPrincess #cruiseship

Ha ha, 300 passengers/crew sick on my favorite pandemic-era cruise ship, the #RubyPrincess (norovirus this time, not COVID) https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/300-passengers-and-crew-fall-ill-on-ruby-princess-cruise-from-texas/ar-AA18pYxg

Why is @D_LittleproudMP@twitter.com, the man who as Minister for Biosecurity allowed the #RubyPrincess to dock and disembark, commenting on pre-flight Covid testing for passengers from China? He should be hiding in shame. #auspol

A cruise ship suspected of carrying as many as 1500 COVID-19 positive passengers is set to dock in Sydney this morning. The Celebrity Eclipse is carrying about 3000 people, about half of whom are believed to be carrying the virus. Here we go again... #COVID_NSW #groundhogday #boganState #Covid19_AU #COVID19nsw #RubyPrincess

https://www.9news.com.au/national/coronavirus-australia-updates-cruise-ship-docking-case-numbers-hospitalisations/88bbfb57-49c0-4eb9-8ffd-28ea1e32850b