In the meantime, he has been regularly communicating with his fiance and family, and he has messaged other passengers also quarantined in Omaha.<\/p>\n
Rosmarin and 14 other American passengers arrived Monday morning at the National Quarantine Unit, part of the University of Nebraska Medical Center, the only federally funded such unit in the US. Another US passenger, Dr Stephen Kornfeld \u2013 who had helped with the medical crisis while on board \u2013 tested positive for hantavirus and is isolating at a nearby biocontainment unit in Omaha. Two additional American passengers were sent to Emory University in Atlanta, which also has a biocontainment unit.<\/p>\n
Rosmarin’s room has a phone, an exercise bike, bed, drawers, bathroom, chairs, desk and TV. <\/p>\n
He and the others quarantined order food each night for the next day from the provided menu; on Tuesday, for example, he requested a No 9 – scrambled eggs; a No 18 – bacon slices; a No 19 – English muffin; No 107 – a regular hot coffee; and a No 124 – vanilla almond milk.<\/p>\n
“I honestly don’t remember what I ordered for lunch,” he said.<\/p>\n
A photographer and content creator, Rosmarin has also been posting social media updates since the early days of the outbreak while still on the ship, with the first being highly emotional when he was clearly scared. His posts since then, however – particularly since arriving in Omaha – have been much more staid, as has his outlook, Rosmarin said.<\/p>\n
“I kind of think it still hasn’t hit me yet,” he said. “I think I’m now in a better place, but I think every day when I was on that ship, I thought I was going to just wake up from a nightmare, and it was a reality.”<\/p>\n
Sharing his experience is helping his mental health, he said.<\/p>\n
“My whole life is on social media, and if I can’t be creating content, I don’t know what to do with myself,” he told the BBC. “And it seems that people are really interested in what is going on. \u2026 I’m going to tell people what I’m experiencing, and I don’t mind sharing that.”<\/p>\n
Responses have ranged from hate to disbelief to love and support, he said.<\/p>\n
“I think there’s people who just want to, you know, show hate, and the hate isn’t supported by anything factual,” he said. “And the people who come up with conspiracy theories – no one’s going to be able to convince them that it’s not true.<\/p>\n
Since he started posting, he said some critics have come around.<\/p>\n
“I’ve seen that the people who were originally \u2026 saying maybe that I’m selfish for wanting to get off the ship and just maybe not understanding the situation in full, I’ve seen a lot of love and support from those people that I didn’t see originally.”<\/p>\n
He said the initial criticism was particularly difficult when he was on board. <\/p>\n
“There was so much unknown, and getting those comments made it hard. I think that love and support that I knew was truly heartfelt is what got me through those seven days.”<\/p>\n
Rosmarin and the others had been informed by the captain of a hantavirus case during a meeting in a lounge “less than 24 hours before we were supposed to disembark the ship”, he said. He and others immediately began googling and, “after that point, I basically did not leave my cabin at all”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the meantime, he has been regularly communicating with his fiance and family, and he has messaged other…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":957764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[105,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-957763","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116569127602149659","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/957764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}