Scott

So you get a lot of really, really pale dudes when you come up from deployment.

Bunch of ghosts getting out of that stuff.

Pretty much.

And it just so happened that my deployment in that six months was right when COVID broke out.

So I was really debating on what story to tell from the boat.

The other story, which I wouldn't go into, is this.

We're pretty sure we got the first strain of COVID coming out of like Southeast Asia run through the boat.

Oh boy.

That was pretty crazy.

And we didn't know it at the time, but there was a really, really bad flu that went through the entire boat and just knocked people out.

And we found out later that there was a pandemic going on.

We pulled in to Japan and then a week later, everyone was sick.

But that was before we even heard what COVID was.

Was that like a January situation?

Because I got it, I feel like before it was a thing.

That's right.

We pulled in in December, and then that following June, everyone was sick.

So the story I decided to tell was definitely for you because it's the grossest one.

It's also considered a large-scale, unauthorized evacuation.

Wonderful.