Posted on 10/15/2020 11:27:56 AM PDT by Capt. Tom
While the cruise industry waits for a decision on when cruising can resume, the White House and CDC are being asked to elaborate on allegations they may have intervened in the Centers for Disease Control decision-making process.
The Chair of the House Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, Sean Patrick Maloney, has now requested additional documentation from the CDC after it was reported that the White House had interfered with the CDC’s decision to extend the No Sail Order.
According to widely publicized publications, the Trump administration intervened last month when Dr. Robert Redfield of the CDC wanted to extend the current no sail order to February 2021. Subsequently, the No Sail Order had been put back to an extension of only one month through October 31, 2020.
Maloney: “Cruise ships continue to be an unsafe environment.” Representative Sean Patrick Maloney released the following statement on his expanded request:
“These ships shouldn’t leave port until we know passengers and crew will be safe, and the ships won’t again become global vectors of disease.”
The representative also elaborated on the alleged interference and questions the subjectivity of the CDC:
“However, I am worried about impairments to the independence of the CDC’s science-based and unbiased public health advice based on reported interference from the White House and political leadership at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as well as pressure from the cruise line industry.”
“I was alarmed to read recent press reports that allege the CDC wanted to extend the No Sail Order to February 15, 2021, but after intervention by the White House, the extension was shortened to October 31, 2020.”
The representative did not elaborate on how the pressure would have been applied to Dr. Redfield and the CDC, or whether it was a decision made solely by him, yet in consideration of a struggling industry.
Have the Cruise Lines Ended up In Political Issues? While it is not surprising that an investigation into the matter has followed, this is standard practice, it is worrying for the cruise lines that they have now seemed to have ended up in a political issue.
A political issue where the representative paints a very bleak picture of the cruise industry and disregards the policies and procedures that have been put in place for a healthy and safe return to cruising.
In his statement, the Chair mentions instances where people contracted COVID-19 onboard ships yet fails to mention that all these cases occurred before an adequate response was possible, and without the information available now on the disease.
Is it really unsafe to sail?
As it stands today, cruise lines operate safely and at less capacity yet successfully from European ports. The CLIA, Cruise Lines International Association, and the major cruise lines have put together various new procedures that have been proven incredibly successful already.
Also Read: Will Mandatory Testing Be a Turn Off for Cruise Passengers?
There is no chance that the cruise industry will have a zero percent infection rate throughout all voyages and all ships that ordinarily sail from the U.S.
However, with the new policies and procedures that are in place, everyone that wants to sail should be able to be reasonably safe, with testing for all passengers and crew the risk of infection will be small to non-existent.
As it stands, the letter and statements made by Representative Malone should be taken in the context in which they are written, the upcoming elections.
Related: CDC No Sail Order Officially Extended But There’s More to This
The representative said about cruising today: “Cruise ships should not sail until passengers and crew will be safe and the ships won’t again become global vectors of disease”. While in May 2020 Representative Maloney called cruise ships: “A care-free escape from reality where passengers can dine, dance, relax, and mingle.”
The CDC does not make or implement policy. They only “inform” it.
The CDC does so poorly, they made fun of it in the first season or two of “The Walking Dead.”
Do airplanes fly????????????????????? Cargo ships with crews still sailing???????? Trains, subways, buses are ok????
As long as humans are breathing . . .
This idiot has never heard of norovirus.
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mewzilla ~ Or Daniel Defoe.
They stopped reading at chapter 94 when they got to this passage:
Squeeze! squeeze! squeeze! all the morning long; I squeezed that sperm till I myself almost melted into it; I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me; and I found myself unwittingly squeezing my co-laborers’ hands in it, mistaking their hands for the gentle globules. Such an abounding, affectionate, friendly, loving feeling did this avocation beget; that at last I was continually squeezing their hands, and looking up into their eyes sentimentally; as much as to say,—Oh! my dear fellow beings, why should we longer cherish any social acerbities, or know the slightest ill-humor or envy! Come; let us squeeze hands all round; nay, let us all squeeze ourselves into each other; let us squeeze ourselves universally into the very milk and sperm of kindness.Which they bookmarked and read over and over and over to mounting excitement...
Exactly.
The CDC will be used as a sledge hammer by the socialists, communists and America haters (Dems)against Pres. Trump and us deplorables.-Tom
Oh nooooo, the Oktober counter-surprise! /S
“Great Scott, doesn’t anybody read history anymore?”
To liberals history began when they woke up that morning.
I’ve got a probe for those corrupt SOB’s but given they are sick and twisted bassturds, they would prolly enjoy it while screaming in ecstasy.
I could have sworn that was Melville in Moby Dick...
Oh crap. It was, nvrmnd!
The House Democrats are “allegation central” for anything having to do with the Trump administration. They will even take and give credibility to an allegation from a homeless bum with no knowledge of anything — and if they don’t get any external allegations, they will make one up themselves and say it is from “a source”. Corruption is deep in the House and in DC in general.
Funny...Moby Dick was one of the first books I remember reading for pleasure, and I think I was 7 or 8 at the time, and have probably read it four or five time since then.
As I was reading that passage, I was thinking...”Huh. I could be wrong, but...”
The older I get, my brain seems more inclined to those kinds of things where I SWEAR it is one thing, but turns out to be another.
I was insisting to someone the other day that the last name of someone I couldn’t remember began with the letter “A”. I could see it swimming in front of my eyes, but couldn’t recall it and eventually gave up before it drove me nuts.
I grumbled to myself in a joking (but not joking) way it probably began with some other letter as far away as possible.
When I DID remember it about an hour later, unbidden...it began with the letter “Z”.
Now, THAT made me laugh!
I have a right to a peaceful protest cruise...
my rights are being denied !!!
Last month the CDC Director told us that the mask protects the wearer more than a vaccine would.
Yesterday the CDC told us that the mask does NOT protect the wearer.
One thing I have concluded about the world's medical virus researchers where corona virus is concerned, is they are mostly clueless.
If there are researchers who have a good grasp on that virus they are overwhelmed by the other so-called Disease Control agencies like the UNWHO and our CDC who have the money, equipment and time to investigate the virus, but come up with conflicting opinions. Confusion and conflicting opinions are a weekly occurrence, where Covid-19 is concerned.
Kind of hard to find a solution to a problem you can't agree on. -Tom
Dr. Robert Redfield is not to be trusted.
The CDC is still forcing employees to attend mandatory training on critical race theory, IIRC, in contravention to a PDJT executive order.
So...never?
This just happened and plays right into the hands of the never cruisers,like the CDC.-Tom
Oct 15,2010 Cruise Hive excerpt-
The Costa Diadema which was the second ship in the fleet to resume cruises since the suspension was first implemented in March 2020 has been forced to head directly back to Genoa, Italy. Guests on a previous voyage also tested positive for the virus.
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