CDC drops vacation and testing for cruise ships

La Lido Loca ^ | 7/18/22 | Tony Barnett

[Fai Mao]

CDC has abandoned ship on cruise restrictions!

[Fai Mao]

Let's go cruising!

[Skywise]

No more cruise ship vacations?! ;-;

[Fai Mao]

Or testing, If Tony is right, starting immediately. Although, the ports of call may still have some.

[Celerity]

Now for the 100s of other horrible illnesses aboard these giant petri dishes..

[dynachrome]

Will the minkey pox vaxx be required?

[Fai Mao]

You need to do some research. They are cleaner than your kitchen. The petri dish meme is down there with “There was no election fraud!”

[Lurkinanloomin]

Oh darn, now a certain freeper won’t be able to lord over us unvaccinated that his multiple boosters allow him on cruise ships.

[SamAdams76]

In before the lame "petri dish" references that will surely come from some of the shut-ins here who could never afford a cruise and despise those who can.

BTW, I've been taking cruises for 40 years and never gotten sick except one time eating raw fish at midnight buffet back in 1987 on a cruise to Bermuda.

However, I was resolved to never take a cruise again on account of these idiotic COVID restrictions. Now that they are lifted, I'll likely be cruising again in the future.

[Linda Frances]

Does this include Canada? We’re going on an Alaskan land cruise and have to go through Vancouver.

[Celerity]

Research performed:

https://www.google.com/search?q=cruise+ship+illnesses&oq=cruise+ship+illne&aqs=chrome.0.0i512j69i57j0i512l3j0i22i30l5.2609j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Now go away.

[Fai Mao]

No they already posted.

I am glad I no longer have to use my faked COVID test.

[NautiNurse]

In before the lame "petri dish" references that will surely come from some of the shut-ins here who could never afford a cruise and despise those who can.

You've got to be quicker to beat the "petri dish" description. Better luck next time!

[TexasGator]

“You need to do some research. They are cleaner than your kitchen. The petri dish meme is down there with “There was no election fraud!””

Maybe now? But definitely NOT prior to Covid!

[Reno89519]

So, does this mean I can book and go on a cruise without getting an experimental vaccination?

[Fai Mao]

Yes, statistically they were.

If you had ever been on one you would know that. They have staff whose sole job is sanitizing.

[Fai Mao]

Yes, exactly!

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Yes, and the vaccination requirements could be started right back up if the almighty CDC deems that necessary, and good luck if you’ve already paid for your cruise. I’ll wait a while to see how this works out.

[Fai Mao]

And ports of call may still have requirements.

This is still.really good news.

[SpaceBar]

The word quarantine derives from 'forty' meaning the number of days ships had to
drop anchor to be deemed 'disease free'. The 'cleanliness' of the ship when you
leave port is largely irrelevant when you have hundreds of people touching the
same environmental surfaces and in close contact sometimes for weeks on end. It
has been known since antiquity that yes, ships can become 'floating petri dishes'
insofar that contagious disease spreads like wildfire under such conditions. It's not
a disparaging phrase made up yesterday to besmirch the cruise line industry.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

At the moment, certainly better than before.