To each his own. I’ve seen commercial kitchens and many aren’t clean enough to feed my dog. Nix on the sneeze guards and community serving spoons. No, I don’t want germy hands touching and nibbling off my plate. I’ll do my own cooking so I know it’s safe or at least only contaminated with my germs. Shopping and bringing the food home, I know for certain it’s been washed well.
I can sit right here at my desk with an open window and smell the clean outdoors and watch the ducks and geese swim by. There’s all kinds of fresh fish just feet from the back door. Fresher than that frozen stuff on a cruise.
I’d be diving off the back end of the ship if I had to deal with 6000 people non-stop 24/7. Give me peace in the country any day.
Per KSTP-TV (ABC Affiliate in Minneapolis-St Paul), Minnesota has its 4th case of COVID-19:
No specific details yet. Olmstead County Public Health officials will hold a press conference later. For those of you geographically inclined, Olmsted County is about 75-90 south/southeast of the Twin Cities. The county seat is Rochester - home of the Mayo Clinic.
It is funny but the biggest ship I ever cruised on, Oasis of the Seas with 6000 people, was the least crowded compared to all my other 31+ cruises. Because it was so huge, the walk from my cabin to dining room was 1/4 mile walk each way. And the ship actually had a living forest on outside areas called Central Park with hundreds of tree and bushes, where several birds were living permanently! A group of 3 young violin players played Mozart’s compositions in Central Park every evening and it was wonderful to listen to my favorite composer under the stars and the incomparable balmy ocean breezes which contain the most oxygen than any other places due to the plankton and algae in the oceans.