TYVM. Good sense prevails. I just posted about 100 cases on the Theodore Roosevelt currently docked in Guam. That would be a difficult one to categorise for sure.
Interesting, because I have both been stationed in Guam and also on a Carrier (the USS NIMITZ). I can say from my experience that I only had ear infections when I was a child, except when I was stationed on the carrier, I would get double ear infections constantly. I felt it was from bacteria, viruses, what have you in the shower heads most likely. I would also get strep throat so often, that as soon as i got a headache (my first sign) I would head to sick bay and sure enough, strep throat...get my penicillin shot and call it a day. I went there so often with strep that doc said I needed to get my tonsils out before our next deployment.
Carriers are cesspools, although the whole crew cleans constantly, the Navy is super big on cleaning. We had an hour in the morning where they called cleaning quarters and everyone- no matter your rank- would clean their area for that hour. Then we rotated assignments in berthing too. Clean, clean, clean...it was constant.
But...we never used disinfectants, just soap and water and whatever was available...not even bleach agents were available to us.
As far as Guam goes, they have a very small Navy Hospital there. My son was born there. Not a great place for Covid patients. In fact that island so small- you can go from one end to another in about an hour- that if it gets into the community, it will spread like wildfire if it hasn't already. I have no idea what their community hospital is like, but I do know that for serious cases and procedures, many locals would send their mothers, fathers, and others to Hawaii.
