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Can a Gay Cruise Keep 4,700 People Safe Amid COVID?
The New York Times ^ | January 16, 2022 | Ceylan Yeginsu

Posted on 01/16/2022 11:45:24 AM PST by Capt. Tom

As the omicron variant of the coronavirus continues to surge onboard cruise ships, forcing several cruise lines to cancel and postpone voyages, Atlantis Events, a gay and lesbian tour operator, is preparing to launch one of its biggest events Sunday: a 4,700-person Caribbean cruise marking the company’s 30th anniversary.

Even as the pandemic is raging around the world and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a stark warning telling Americans to avoid travel on cruise ships, regardless of their vaccination status, Atlantis insists that its vaccination mandate, testing requirements and health protocols are enough to provide a safe environment for guests throughout the voyage. Many passengers are convinced.

“It’s time to start living our lives again, and vaccines and tests allow us to do that. This isn’t COVID 2020,” said Andre Mayer, a graphic designer from Germany who paid more than $4,000 for the weeklong cruise on board Royal Caribbean’s Oasis of the Seas. “This is going to be the wildest party for our community in two years. I’m talking dirty dancing, sex, drugs, raves, orgies and sweet, sweet freedom.”

For the hundreds of cruise passengers who contracted the coronavirus on board other ships in recent weeks, many falling ill and spending days in quarantine, their experience couldn’t have been further from the carefree vacation that Mayer anticipates.

For some booked on the anniversary cruise and other Atlantis events, these reports and the omicron wave of the virus are causing them to reconsider their plans.

“The COVID reality changes so quickly that there needs to be more flexibility,” said Aiden Morgan, a 44-year-old dance teacher from Boston. Morgan sold his ticket for the Atlantis Tropical Americas Cruise later this month on Facebook but was only offered $1,480 for his $3,800 ticket.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Society; Travel
KEYWORDS: bugchasers; gaycruise; giftgivers; homosexualagenda; qanon
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To: steve86

its nobody’s business christian. mind your own.


41 posted on 01/16/2022 12:44:19 PM PST by Hammerhead
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

“””Cleaning the pools and hot tubs will be a major operation.”””


I also have empathy for the crew in the laundry room who have to wash the bed sheets.

Truly crap jobs if I may go as far to say that...


42 posted on 01/16/2022 12:46:06 PM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
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To: Capt. Tom

“Full Steam Ahead!” (Paul Lynde voice).


43 posted on 01/16/2022 12:47:08 PM PST by Kickaha (See the glory...of the royal scam )
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To: alternatives?
Would anyone be comfortable taking this ship in the following cruise?

That's one of the things I was thinking about.
To me there is a lot at stake for Royal Caribbean if this gets a lot more press. -Tom

44 posted on 01/16/2022 12:47:41 PM PST by Capt. Tom (.It's COVID 2022 - The Events, not us, are still in charge. )
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To: steve86

‘Don’t care they offend God?’

if God wished to not be offended, why does he create people he knows will do so...?


45 posted on 01/16/2022 12:56:31 PM PST by IrishBrigade
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To: Capt. Tom

Trust me, they will never want it to end with the pounding they aill do to each other.


46 posted on 01/16/2022 12:57:56 PM PST by The MAGA-Deplorian ( 2022 - VOTE THE BUMS OUT —— ALL OF THEM! RE-ELECT NO ONE!)
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To: Capt. Tom

What do you call 4,700 homos sinking in the a ship in the Caribbean?

A good start…

…then move to BLM, ANTIFA, Dem Socialists, college professors, etc, etc, etc, Oh, and Hollywood!


47 posted on 01/16/2022 12:58:06 PM PST by USAF1985 (Joe McCarthy is a hero...he was absolutely, 100% correct! (Let’s go Brandon!))
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To: Karl Spooner

“If you can find 50 righteous people on that ship I will spare it.”

LOL!


48 posted on 01/16/2022 1:00:12 PM PST by bluejean (Surviving one day at a time in the global psych ward.)
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To: Capt. Tom

Every anus on that ship is at risk.

Just saying.


49 posted on 01/16/2022 1:02:16 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: steve86

God is big enough to handle being offended, even if yiu are not.


50 posted on 01/16/2022 1:05:46 PM PST by webstersII
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To: webstersII

*you


51 posted on 01/16/2022 1:06:13 PM PST by webstersII
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To: ConservativeMind

Just another day on a “fairy” boat.


52 posted on 01/16/2022 1:14:02 PM PST by ssapro (SSAPRO/ EXBP)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

The pools are filled with filtered sea water. The water is constantly refreshed.

Laundry may be another issue.

The behavior is the really disgusting aspect for most of the employees. And yes, I had one tell me that.


53 posted on 01/16/2022 1:14:57 PM PST by Fai Mao (I don't think we have enough telephone poles.)
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To: Capt. Tom
Sodomites on the sea or in the sea.

Don't care either way.

54 posted on 01/16/2022 1:16:11 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (add a dab of lavender in milk, leave town with an orange and pretend you're laughing with it)
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To: Capt. Tom

The premise that allows the legalization of pornography and perversion such as homosexuality as well as abortion is false. Privacy seems to be an extension of unreasonable search and seizures and the presumption of innocence. However as soon as you designate certain activities that are lawful because they are private then they are no longer private. For example this cruise must advertise and engage in all types of commerce. This is not done in private.

Bill Clinton’s first act as President was to implement don’t ask don’t tell in the military. At the time this was considered progressive and the homosexual community was pleased. But under Obama don’t ask don’t tell was viewed as something that needed to be destroyed so that homosexuals could openly serve. After that they want to ram their views down everyone’s throat. You cannot hold a different opinion on the subject.

We see what Sodom in the Bible illustrates when it comes to this type of sexual deviancy. Eventually all of the men of that city apparently including fairly young boys were involved. They became disinterested in their wives and having children. And ultimately they attempted to rape visitors to their town. These happened to be representatives of God and the actions of the men incurred divine wrath.

The Bible is explicitly clear that the same type of judgment that fell upon Sodom is going to fall upon the whole earth due to fornication and murder and theft and idolatry among other things.


55 posted on 01/16/2022 1:30:45 PM PST by unlearner (Si vis pacem, para bellum. Let him who desires peace prepare for war.)
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To: alternatives?

1 week cruise, 3 weeks fumigate


56 posted on 01/16/2022 1:34:47 PM PST by George from New England
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To: Capt. Tom

This is a disgusting abomination in the eyes of Our Lord. May God have mercy on the crew that are complicit in allowing this to happen


57 posted on 01/16/2022 1:38:43 PM PST by surroundedbyblue (Proud to be an Infidel & a deplorable. )
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To: srmanuel

Wow...that won’t go well for you on Judgement day. I hope you repent of being complicit in this offense to God.

Do you not care that this activity is an abomination & you enabled it to happen?


58 posted on 01/16/2022 1:40:08 PM PST by surroundedbyblue (Proud to be an Infidel & a deplorable. )
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To: Capt. Tom

Anybody know when this abomination sales ? Don’t want to be anywhere near.


59 posted on 01/16/2022 1:59:48 PM PST by George from New England
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To: George from New England

Arrgh — SAILS


60 posted on 01/16/2022 2:00:03 PM PST by George from New England
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