the moment we arrived back in port to
disembark we were not allowed off the
ship the ship was placed in quarantine
in the bay at Buca hama were we remained
for a few days so there was no
opportunity to get off even if we wanted
to then second or third day we were
confined to our cabins and that's how
it's been ever since now it's very
difficult because we've had our throat
swab yesterday and we are awaiting the
result to see where they are we are
positive for the virus
if one of us proves positive that person
will be taken to a medical facility it
could be up to four hours away from the
ship which means we're going to be
separated for the first time in 50 years
of marriage the medical facilities don't
speak English they don't serve European
food it's going to be very very hard
course we're worried I I would dearly
love the UK government to get us out of
here
yeah and it makes it worse for us when
we see the Americans are actually
getting off the ship right now
it's been announced that the Canadians
have got a plane coming to repatriate
them Hong Kong we've got a plane coming
to repatriate them Australia is doing
something about it and I can't see the
UK doing anything we haven't heard
directly from the Foreign Office I have
contacted them they have put me in touch
in directly with the British ambassador
in Tokyo and what we've been told is the
Americans are getting off that England
is doing everything it can
it's talking to the World Health
Organisation who are recommending we are
not sent back to the UK that's very very
kind of the w-h-o very kind why it is
most certainly affecting my wife and I
I'm a very positive person and a viewer
to listen to any of the broadcasts seven
days ago you'd have family being very
upbeat not that way anymore I'm afraid
because it's making it worse see all of
the countries coming alongside their
people and take
King them home putting them into
quarantine in the home land and we just
feel that we have been completely
forgotten and neglected it's as if the
borders have been closed to us and
England are saying we don't want you
back that's what it feels like a great
deal of the food doesn't appeal to me
I'm a diabetic I've got direct dairy
allergies I'm lactose intolerant so I'm
just not getting the food that to
nourish me it's um sounds as if I'm
complaining and whinging and I'm sorry
if that's how it comes over but I'm
eating very very little my main meals
breakfast lunch evening meal a complex
with lactose free milk please think of
your people isolated being in total
confinement on a ship where we can't
leave our cabin it is hell on earth we
don't know what the future for us holds
please take us home please be
compassionate and treat us as human
beings and acts like the Americans the
Hong Kong the Canadians and the
Australians who are coming alongside the
people
you