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Vaccine passports are certainly a subject some cruisers are facing right now.

This issue could divide some families and traveling groups of friends.

This issue is another hurdle for Cruise lines to deal with in the long term, if they get the go ahead for full ship capacity.

Running ships at 60% capacity is not the problem that running them at 100% capacity will present. - Tom

1 posted on 04/23/2021 7:46:19 AM PDT by Capt. Tom
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To: Capt. Tom

The “Mark of the Beast”.


2 posted on 04/23/2021 7:49:29 AM PDT by mosaicwolf
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What about the infected and recovered, who probably have the same antibodies as the vaccinated?


3 posted on 04/23/2021 7:51:39 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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If they’re going to require something like that, why not just a stamp in your passport instead of a separate one?


4 posted on 04/23/2021 7:53:17 AM PDT by SkyDancer (To Most People The Sky's The Limit ~ To A Pilot, It is Home)
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they infringe.

check out blinkscience.com. they have an instantaneous test that gives results asap and override the need for any vaccine.


5 posted on 04/23/2021 7:55:53 AM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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Count me out. I will not patronize any business that requires any information about my health. I can do without.


8 posted on 04/23/2021 7:58:19 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson)
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Let the market decide.

I’m a strong pro-vaxx person. If someone doesn’t want to get one, fine, but any private entity should be free to tell them to stay the hell away. Just as anyone should be free to stay the hell away from an entity that requires them.

I’ve got mine, my wife got hers. If someone doesn’t get it, and they die, I’m not going to shed a tear.

I’ve already lost relatives to this, so the A-holes who have minimized this from the outset, that is treating it anything short of a serious pandemic requiring the strongest response, can FOAD and I think the world will be a better place. Any “it’s just the flu” or “Mark of the Best” nutcases that drop dead will make the world a better place, but then they would say the same thing, perhaps, of my cannabis ingesting, blasphemous, masked up ass; it’s a free country.

Science is always good; people without advanced degrees, post graduate study and academic publishing in the specific field = utterly irrelevant if not dangerous in matters of medicine. YMMV


10 posted on 04/23/2021 8:06:38 AM PDT by RedStateRocker ("Never miss a good chance to Shut Up" - Will Rogers)
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As much as my wife and I love cruising, we’ll no longer cruise if covid vaccine or vaccine passport is required.


11 posted on 04/23/2021 8:07:03 AM PDT by Nathan _in_Arkansas (Shut the deuce up!!! I'll do the fighting!!!)
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It’s the line’s choice, thus not an infringement of rights. Should it become an issue for enough travelers, some lines will be happy to find alternatives, such as a negative test. A government mandate which I could see the CDC, without authority, issuing is a major infringement. Clearly, at least for Caribbean, South and Central America and Mexico, alternative departure ports are a necessary diversification. And they’d be foolish to abandon them when the CDC relents. This is clearly a political issue, and something any international company has to consider when operating here. Obviously most important for cruise lines, where, though they generate considerable revenue for embarkation ports, with a few exceptions don’t operate within the US.


12 posted on 04/23/2021 8:39:56 AM PDT by SJackson (Whom will insane lust for power spare, if it dares violate ties of kin & friendship? Dominic Mancini)
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“... looking at how to guarantee the safety of those ready to explore the world again...”

What’s the point?

Demanding proof of vaccination for citizens traveling while allowing all ad sundry to enter, without ANY oversight at the ‘boarder’??


14 posted on 04/23/2021 9:09:22 AM PDT by SMARTY ( "Force always attracts men of low morality. " Albert Einstein)
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Cruise ships are floating petri dishes with or without mandatory vaccinations. I’ll pass.


16 posted on 04/23/2021 9:17:23 AM PDT by FormerFRLurker
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How about we see Xiden’s medical records, first?


17 posted on 04/23/2021 9:25:40 AM PDT by Huskrrrr (Pronouns? I need no stinkin pronouns!)
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Took one cruise. Thankfully it only lasted 7 days. I'm not the cruise type, and these days, my traveling days are over. The farthest I go is Indiana, to visit my youngest son, and I drive there from NY State. I have friends who have traveled all over the world. They both got their vaccines just so they could still travel. I haven't talked to them though since they had them.

One of their sons worked with a guy who was exhibiting symptoms of the Kung Flu. Both men had three tests over a period of about three weeks. First two tests were negative. The last test was positive, but the results took so long that by the time her son got his results back, the doctor said he was already over the contagious stage. My friends and their three sons, and their families all vacation for a week together each year. The doctor told the son he was okay to go last summer with the rest of the family. Nobody else got the virus, not even his wife and daughter during the time he was supposed to have been contagious.

One of the main reasons I refuse to take the vaccine is that they don't even have an accurate test.

21 posted on 04/23/2021 9:46:41 AM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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If I don't need a "vaccine passport" to get on a plane, commuter train or traverse the highways, I damn' sure don't need one to go on a cruise.

(And I say that as someone who flew, got on commuter trains and traversed our interstate highways in various states these past 14 months without being vaccinated and never got sick even though I'm immune system compromised.)

23 posted on 04/23/2021 9:53:26 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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