Originally Posted by
pba_target
The ship has 4800 people embarked. Given the demographic of the population concerned, let's assume that the death rate from COVID is 0.1% (somewhere around 1/10 to 1/30th of the rate in the general population). If you assume an infection rate of 80% amongst a population with no where to go and no real way of isolating from one another, that's 3 sailors dead. The Captain's point was exactly the opposite to yours. There is no war, and they are providing no critical capability at this point in time. With that in mind, what is the point in killing 3 people at random for the sake of it.
Most important message to the crew was "I will do everything to ensure you are safe, even at the expense of my career", figure he will spend 3 months on the beach and then return.