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Senior Navy officials were blindsided by a written plea for help from the commander of the coronavirus-wracked USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier after they assured him his crew would be cared for in two direct calls earlier this week, Foreign Policy has learned.

A source familiar with the matter told Foreign Policy that Capt. Brett Crozier had multiple conversations with the chief of staff to acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly on Monday, just hours before his plea for help leaked in the San Francisco Chronicle. Crozier was fired as captain of the ship two days after the letter was leaked.

The message from the Navy to Crozier on Monday was “call us any time day or night,” the source said, as the service’s chain of command looked for single-bed rooms in nearby hotels to individually quarantine sailors coming off the ship and slow the spread of the virus.

Crozier was given Modly’s personal cell phone number to raise further concerns, the source added, but there was no contact between the captain and Navy brass between that time and when Crozier’s letter was sent by email to higher-ups and some crew.

“I think sort of most disappointing to me is that I had set up a direct line to him that if he felt that anything, way before his letter was written, that if he felt anything wasn’t going well and he needed help, that he could reach out to me directly,” Modly told the conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt on Friday morning. “And he did not do that.”

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Quote (Black XistenZ @ Apr 5 2020 08:45am)

A very interesting read:

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/04/04/kurzarbeit-coronavirus-pandemic-america-unemployment-apocalypse-europe-not/

Quote (Black XistenZ @ Apr 5 2020 09:45am)

A very interesting read:

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/04/04/kurzarbeit-coronavirus-pandemic-america-unemployment-apocalypse-europe-not/

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US is so poorly poised from a financial standpoint. This isn’t going to be magically over by 4/30. Only reason our log curve is wanting to plateau is because of the quarantining which has definitively shown to be working. It will not be business as usual after 4/30. I don’t know what the strategy will be but we are going to be living with some sort of restrictions for months to come. I just don’t know how the average American deals with this and they genuinely have my sympathies.

Quote (Kayeto @ 5 Apr 2020 17:05)

is there some trick to get around paywalled articles that everyone else is using that i don't know about?

Quote (Bazi @ Apr 5 2020 11:01am)

US is so poorly poised from a financial standpoint. This isn’t going to be magically over by 4/30. Only reason our log curve is wanting to plateau is because of the quarantining which has definitively shown to be working. It will not be business as usual after 4/30. I don’t know what the strategy will be but we are going to be living with some sort of restrictions for months to come. I just don’t know how the average American deals with this and they genuinely have my sympathies.