entropy12 wrote: “Also, during the total 212 days spent sailing on cruise ships, not even once I can recall suffering salmonella, shigella and E. coli. May be because we prefer all 3 meals in dining room instead of the buffet where kids can handle and touch the food.”
That simply cannot be true because as all intelligent persons know, cruise ships are nothing but ‘huge floating petri dishes’. That phrase has to be one of the most ill-informed of all times.
I may be nearing 81 age, but will definitely do 36 more cruises before the end of entropy12. If ships made me sick, I would have quit cruising longs ago.
Even before covid-19 arrived from China, I instinctively practiced washing hands before eating. That is a habit carried over from my days growing up in India with parents who were strict disciplinarians. That habit may have served me well avoiding covid-19 & flu as well.