--- title: "Passengers Fought Over Rotten Food on Quarantined Cruise Ship" description: "A number of cruise ship passengers are catching cabin fever as they're trapped on board the Grand Princess due to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak." date: "2020-03-09" modified: "2020-03-09" authors: - name: "Victor Tangermann" job_title: "Senior Editor" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor" url: "https://futurism.com/neoscope/passengers-reportedly-fought-over-rotten-food-cruise-ship" categories: - "Developments" - "Food" - "Future Society" - "Health & Medicine" tags: - "coronavirus" - "covid-19" - "virus" --- # Passengers Fought Over Rotten Food on Quarantined Cruise Ship ![A number of cruise ship passengers are catching cabin fever as they're trapped on board the Grand Princess due to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.]() *\Image: Chilli Head/Victor Tangermann\* The cruise ship industry is going through a bit of a PR crisis, courtesy of the coronavirus outbreak. Thousands of passengers have had to be quarantined for weeks on end, trapped inside tight quarters on board a [number]() of [ships](). Now, it sounds like a number of quarantined passengers have — understandably — caught a bad case of cabin fever (pun intended), with food getting tight while the number of infected on board keeps rising. "The food is rotten and terrible and we have to fight for it," Margaret Bartlett, a 77-year-old British woman on board the *Grand Princess*, [told the *BBC*](). "It is not good enough." Making matters worse, Bartlett is trapped inside her cabin, which has no balcony. "We are going stir crazy stuck in the cabin," Bartlett added. "It is a bit depressing when we saw land and it was sunny and we couldn't get out." There are 3,500 passengers and crew on board the *Grand Princess*. The massive cruise ship remained about 25 miles off the coast of San Francisco as officials raced to figure out what to do with the guests on board. It finally docked earlier today at the Port of Oakland. At least 21 people have tested positive on board the ship, [according to *CNN*](). Getting them off will be a lengthy affair and will take multiple days, according to the ship's operator. Governments are preparing to send hundreds of passengers home while minimizing the spread of the deadly virus. Even after weeks of being trapped on board a cruise ship, what will await them won't be much better: screening and another lengthy 14-day quarantine. ## Author I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()