Alan ,
I didn't post this to rehash the earlier 'discussion' with yourself and Joe Kitchener, but one point that became abundently clear post-Crozier was that security and the US protective shield was never compromised. That's according to the US Naval top-brass. So we can drop that argument.
It's a good recap of the Modly Madness and a 430% increase in the space of 6 days notwithstanding the isolation and precautions taken shows just how lethal this virus could be.
The prophetic ending was something you couldn't make up, or could you ?
As always, YMMV.
Read my post. I said I believe there are probably many other ships with the same problem. And they have been taken out of combat readiness. This would be kept under wraps for security reasons. Which reminds me of a great story about WWII.
After Pearl Harbor, America broke the Japanese codes. Of course the Japanese did not know. Now The US had intercepted certain communication that indicated another major attack was planned by the Japanese. Unfortunately, they used a substitute name for the target and not its real name. America needed to find out what the fake name referred to. They believe it was Midway Island but had to make sure. So they had the US base at Midway transmit an unencrypted message to US stateside headquarters that their water system was out of service. Sure enough, Japanese radio operators listening in picked it up and re-transmitted the news in code to Japan using the substitute name for Midway. So now, America confirmed Japan definitely planned to attack Midway Island and when.
The US set a trap. When the Jap carriers attacked, America returned the attack and sank four Japanese carriers, the pride of their fleet. The Battle of Midway destroyed Japanese naval effectiveness for the rest of the war. So news about a broken water system helped defeat the Japanese navy and win the war.
That's why naval effectiveness is kept secret even today.
