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I was reading a book about the Normandie, and it mentioned several times about her entering “quarantine”. What is that and is it bad?

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I was reading a book about the Normandie, and it mentioned several times about her entering “quarantine”. What is that and is it bad?

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A9. Not at all. Quarantine is like a customs check in at an airport. Before a ship entered New York it would stop three miles out and authorites from the US government would board the ship and inquire about: passenger compliment, crew compliment, number of sicknesses onboard, the nature of the sickness, what if any animals or plants, they would review the cargo manifest, etc. It was quite common in those days.