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27 cruise ships have reported COVID-19 infections. Why can’t we find out how many?
South Florida Sun-Sentinel ^ | 8/15/2021 | Ron Hurtibise

Posted on 08/15/2021 9:11:16 AM PDT by Capt. Tom

Good luck if you’d like to know how many people infected with COVID-19 are coming into South Florida seaports aboard cruise ships.

Cruise lines and government agencies are not making that data publicly available as the cruise industry resumes operations from U.S.-based ports. Critics who want to see more transparency say cruise consumers and community members deserve to know how successful cruise lines are at preventing spread of the virus.

Twenty-seven ships that currently operate or will be operating in U.S. waters have reported COVID-19 infections to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention since cruising resumed this summer, according to the CDC’s website on Saturday.

Of the 27 ships, 14 are sailing with passengers. Ten have not yet returned to passenger service and are operating with crew members only, and three have undertaken only simulated or test cruises required by the CDC for ships that plan to sail with more than 5% of unvaccinated passengers.

Forty ships monitored by the CDC have reported no infections, but the CDC doesn’t post the number of infections found aboard the others.

It fell to the Tourism Board of Belize last Wednesday to confirm 27 cases aboard a Carnival Cruise Line ship, the Carnival Vista, that was scheduled to return to the Port of Galveston over the weekend. Twenty-six of those infected are crew members and one is a passenger, the Central American nation said in a news release on Wednesday.

Most of the infected crew members work closely with passengers in the ship’s restaurants and casinos as well as its housekeeping, entertainment and beverage departments, according to information that Miami-based maritime attorney Jim Walker said ..

Prior to the news release from Belize, Carnival Cruise Line, headquartered in Miami, would say only that it had “a small number” of cases onboard.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Local News; Miscellaneous; Travel
KEYWORDS: chinavirus; covidnumbers; cruiseships; numberofcases
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It looks like the local Florida press is gearing up to savage the cruise industry again.

By FR rules - This article had to be excerpted to 300 words or less; but it is exceptionally long ,at over 2000 words.

A lot of reading. If you are intending on leaving from Florida on a cruise, you may find the article worth reading. Underlying politics also included. -Tom

1 posted on 08/15/2021 9:11:16 AM PDT by Capt. Tom
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To: Capt. Tom

Will DHS call in Airstrikes ?


2 posted on 08/15/2021 9:12:44 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Capt. Tom

Imagine the press having the gall to ask why we can’t find out the truth on anything related to Covid....


3 posted on 08/15/2021 9:19:25 AM PDT by tatown
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To: Capt. Tom

How in the hell is this bug avoiding detection? With all the attention COVID is getting, worldwide, how can even a case of hay fever slip by?


4 posted on 08/15/2021 9:20:19 AM PDT by DNME (... at that awkward stage. Too late to work within the system; too early to shoot the bastards.)
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NEed to find out how many have died, not just the amount of Infected. Most people, over 99% will survive it fine (Though cruises have a lot fo more e,dearly folks, BUT they are usually healthier and active people)

Then compare the number of dead to typical years where flues kill people too. I’m thinking there isn’t a large difference, and therefore the risk, of death likely on lar with typical years, but I don’t know. They are keeping things very hush, or lying to pad the numbers to keep the fear going.


5 posted on 08/15/2021 9:23:13 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Capt. Tom

Assume it’s 100% infection rate.


6 posted on 08/15/2021 9:23:41 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: DNME

A cruise ship just returned to Galveston from Belize with 27 cases, even though everyone onboard was supposedly vaccinated or tested before departure. How they’re being tested, I don’t know.


7 posted on 08/15/2021 9:25:58 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: Capt. Tom

8 posted on 08/15/2021 9:27:01 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (Give me a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer)
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To: tatown; George from New England; cll; DarthFuzball; Tennessee Nana; Fai Mao; CodeToad; ...
Imagine the press having the gall to ask why we can’t find out the truth on anything related to Covid....

I have said the following for decades about the liberals; "THEY HAVE AN ADVANTAGE OVER CONSERVATIVES;THE LIBERALS ARE SHAMELESS." TOM

9 posted on 08/15/2021 9:28:07 AM PDT by Capt. Tom (.It's COVID 2021 - The Events, not us, are still in charge -Tom)
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To: butlerweave

[[Will DHS call in Airstrikes ?]]

Of course they will, because apparently everyone EXCEPT FOR violent blm, antifa, Muslims, violent Mexican criminals (Obama admin released 80,000± into our streets), and Foreigners from terrorist nations who pour across our borders are now considered terrorists by the dhs.


10 posted on 08/15/2021 9:28:38 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: smokingfrog

Well there must be Untested Rats onboard each Ship


11 posted on 08/15/2021 9:28:42 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: smokingfrog

And the stupid thing is, the tests couldn’t even distinguish between flu and covid according to the cdc which made the admission awhile ago.


12 posted on 08/15/2021 9:29:54 AM PDT by Bob434
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Passengers have been getting sick on cruise ships for decades. Nothing is going to change that.

The people purchasing tickets for near future cruises know this. At this point with 100% vaxxed what else ya gunna doo? No one setting their hair on fire with someone getting influenza during a trip.

13 posted on 08/15/2021 9:31:32 AM PDT by corkoman
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To: SamAdams76

What ship is that?

(A sinking one, I know.)


14 posted on 08/15/2021 9:32:54 AM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation.)
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To: butlerweave

Could be.


15 posted on 08/15/2021 9:33:12 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: Capt. Tom

[[”THEY HAVE AN ADVANTAGE OVER CONSERVATIVES;THE LIBERALS ARE SHAMELESS.”]]

Add this to your statement:

AND THEY OWN EVERYTHING, THE MEDIA, BIG TECH, COURTS, JUDGES, EVEN THE SUPREME COURT ITSELF WHICH WAS COMPLICIT IN AIDING THE LEFT WHEN THEY STOLE THE ELECTION.


16 posted on 08/15/2021 9:33:16 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Jane Long
That was the French battleship Bourrasque that was sunk on May 30, 1940, while evacuating Dunkirk.

The majority you see here were saved but many died in the water as depth charges went off as the ship sank.

I recently studied this incident after having read "Atonement" by Ian McEwan.


17 posted on 08/15/2021 9:40:52 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (Give me a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer)
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To: SamAdams76

Operation Dynamo


18 posted on 08/15/2021 9:42:10 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: Jane Long

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_destroyer_Bourrasque


19 posted on 08/15/2021 9:43:55 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: Capt. Tom
As of yesterday, the Carnival Mardi Gras has at least one passenger (vaccinated) who tested positive for COVID-19.

-PJ

20 posted on 08/15/2021 9:44:14 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (* LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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