Neil Freiman
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They're wearing masks.
They're trying to do anything to stay occupied, watching TV, reading books.
And the people on the ship say morale is pretty high given all the circumstances, but I'm sure they're pretty excited to get off.
Yeah, the sentiment online toward the cruise industry was not so positive this week.
People are like, why are we still going on cruises when this can happen?
Obviously, in COVID in March 2020, the cruise industry was also in the spotlight for being this petri dish of disease.
an area or a place where these kind of diseases can spread.
But since we're talking about COVID, I mean, WHO officials yesterday stressed that they're taking this seriously, but we should not consider this like COVID at all, because basically the COVID is transmitted a lot more easily
The hantavirus spread on this cruise ship was also quite unusual.
This human transmission is very rare because you need to be in close contact with someone for a very long time, unlike COVID, where if you're just in the room for a couple of hours or minutes, then you could basically contract it then.
So that's why basically the only place where a human can give hantavirus to another human might be a cruise ship.
Let's get right into it.
Stock of the Week, Dog of the Week, the segment where we pick one stock that stunned at the Met Gala and another that tripped on the stairs.
I won the pre-show tic-tac-toe best of seven, so I get to go first.
And my stock of the week is U.S.
oil companies, which, thanks to the war in Iran, are sending more of their product overseas than at any point in history.
Last week, U.S.
fuel exports reached a record as European and Asian countries looked to America to fill the gap caused by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
That waterway, through which a fifth of global oil supplies traverses, has been effectively shut down to ships since the U.S.
and Israel struck Iran more than two months ago.