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COVID will lurk on every cruise ship. The question is how much.
South Florida Sun-Sentinel ^ | June 20, 2021 | Ron Hurtibise,

Posted on 06/20/2021 9:38:51 AM PDT by Capt. Tom

Recent reports of COVID-19 infections aboard cruise ships — along with simple math — suggest that it will be nearly impossible for any cruise line to return to the seas without the coronavirus lurking.

All vaccines are less than 100% effective, so chances are strong that at least some passengers will be infected among the thousands aboard even “fully vaccinated” voyages.

Chances of more severe outbreaks are even greater in light of a court ruling Friday in favor of Gov. Ron DeSantis, who wants to stop cruise lines from requiring vaccinations.

Cruise lines faced with infections will have to perform a delicate balancing act of preventing the virus’ spread while minimizing inconveniences to uninfected passengers and crew members.

Failure to succeed on either front could spark a public relations nightmare and diminish consumers’ confidence in cruise lines’ abilities to protect passengers, experts say.

Looming over the industry’s resumption is a shared desire of industry workers, health officials and passengers to avoid a replay of the gut-wrenching drama of spring 2020, when outbreaks turned numerous ships at sea into disaster zones.

Bob Jarvis, a law professor at Nova Southeastern University, says the industry should expect infections to occur on every ship.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Travel
KEYWORDS: covid; cruiseships; fearfearfearfearfear; fearporn; fearthefearingfear; fearthevariant; floridareporter; ronhurtibise; wereallgonnadiesir
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This is an excerpted article that touches on the problems that cruise ships will have with covid outbreaks, and how the press and our litigious lawyers are ready to pounce on the cruise lines.- TOM
1 posted on 06/20/2021 9:38:51 AM PDT by Capt. Tom
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To: Capt. Tom

Doom porn. Oh, the humanity!


2 posted on 06/20/2021 9:41:16 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck ( COVID lockdowns are the Establishment's attack on the middle class and our Republic )
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“Chances of more severe outbreaks are even greater in light of a court ruling Friday in favor of Gov. Ron DeSantis, who wants to stop cruise lines from requiring vaccinations.”

Exceptionally politically biased article working hard to keep the fear going and obviously hoping to completely destroy the cruise line industry. Good job alerting to this propaganda piece Capt. Tom.


3 posted on 06/20/2021 9:43:03 AM PDT by fireman15
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To: Capt. Tom

Tell it to every navy on the planet.


4 posted on 06/20/2021 9:45:07 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Get off your ass and earn it!)
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To: Capt. Tom

It’ll be like the old slave routes from Africa where sharks learn to follow the cruise ships as they drop the dead bodies overboard.


5 posted on 06/20/2021 9:47:37 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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6 posted on 06/20/2021 9:48:17 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Capt. Tom

That’s the same reasoning that bacteria is on every surface. These leftards dont want us to maskless nor unvaxxed.


7 posted on 06/20/2021 9:49:09 AM PDT by max americana (FIRED LEFTARD employees at our office every election since 2008 and enjoyed seeing them cry.)
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To: Capt. Tom
I can remember when the panic over Legionnaires' Disease was in full swing ...

Not much different now ...

8 posted on 06/20/2021 9:52:52 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Orchides Forum Trahite - Cordes Et Mentes Veniant)
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The cruise lines employ a lot of people of third world countries and they have terrible hygiene problems. They use their hands to wipe, they don’t wash very well and given Covid-19 can be spread fecal oral then you will have spread no matter what.


9 posted on 06/20/2021 9:53:07 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood (https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3804407/posts?q=1&;pag)
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To: fireman15
a replay of the gut-wrenching drama of spring 2020, when outbreaks turned numerous ships at sea into disaster zones.

'Member when they had to burn the cruise ships and shoot the infected passengers to slow down the relentless march of The Covid Of Death? 'Member?

[Cue Chris Farley]

10 posted on 06/20/2021 9:53:24 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Capt. Tom

The virus doesn’t live indefinitely. It has a shelf life.


11 posted on 06/20/2021 9:53:52 AM PDT by libh8er
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Sounds like a press release for a B horror flick.


12 posted on 06/20/2021 9:54:52 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Tse-tung)
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The ships were not disaster zones, just go back and look at the Diamond Princess cruise ship data last year.


13 posted on 06/20/2021 9:55:42 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood (https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3804407/posts?q=1&;pag)
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One room for those dying of COVID, one room for those dying of the vaccine.


14 posted on 06/20/2021 10:04:03 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (Eric Coomer of Dominion Voting Systems Is The Blue Dress.)
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Whatever you do, don’t get the estimate from Fauci.


15 posted on 06/20/2021 10:05:41 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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"The cruise lines employ a lot of people of third world countries and they have terrible hygiene problems. They use their hands to wipe, they don’t wash very well and given Covid-19 can be spread fecal oral then you will have spread no matter what."

And that in turn gives rise to, what if norovirus has mutated during cruise ship downtime? Not that it would be any worse than regular noro, but regular noro is pretty bad. And those 3rd-worlders bring the supply and the lack of hygiene.

16 posted on 06/20/2021 10:07:28 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (Eric Coomer of Dominion Voting Systems Is The Blue Dress.)
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To: Capt. Tom

People can, with the proper precautions, visit and even stay in places where the COVID-19 Wuhan virus lurks. And this does NOT involve either social distancing or the completely fake wearing of face masks.

Ozone generators do an especially effective job of eliminating the Wuhan virus, and any of its variants, in closed spaces if used with some regularity. You just cannot be in the same room where the ozone generator is operating, as ozone is a relatively hazardous substance, and should not be breathed in. Similar effects can be gained with UV-C light, and again, not a safe instrument to be in the same room while it is operating, because of the harmful effects especially to eyes. But it is fast, destroying all virus particles within about 8 seconds of exposure.

The other step is to make yourself resistant to the virus infestation, by taking relatively large doses of a compound containing the zinc Zn++ ion. Together with an ionophore like ascorbic acid (Vitamin C), or plant polyphenols such as the flavonoids quercetin and epigallocatechin-gallate, these substances act as a method to insert the Zn++ ion into the virus particle, rendering it incapable of replication, and thus simply stopping the progression of the disease. While vaccination provides some immune protection from the Wuhan virus, having had the disease, with the body producing its own antibodies against the virus, provides a much greater degree of protection.


17 posted on 06/20/2021 10:09:59 AM PDT by alloysteel ( Cows don't give milk. You have to work for it.)
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To: Capt. Tom
Wow this journolist is an asshole with wings.

Here is Ron Hurtass trolling Doug Parker (CruiseRadio) on Twitter.

18 posted on 06/20/2021 10:11:14 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (Eric Coomer of Dominion Voting Systems Is The Blue Dress.)
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To: wildcard_redneck

Doom porn. Oh, the humanity!

It’s everybody’s favorite these days. In the case of cruise ships it was norovirus before COVID. 700 were quarantined on a cruise ship for weeks early on remember that?

40 of them caught the COVID.

If it’s not COVID it’s Soros, the FED, the billionaires, their boss, you name it, everyone’s got an excuse.

Meanwhile other people are making money like crazy because they understand the only person that can stop them is themselves and the money is just waiting to be taken by those willing to be creative and think longer term rather than next week.


19 posted on 06/20/2021 10:12:35 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Any comment might be sarcasm, or not. It depends. Often I'm not sure either.)
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The huge problem came to light with the Norovirus. The ships always follow the same routes, and they also dump their waste in the water on those routes. And with inadequate filtration they use that same water for drinking. The filters take out bacteria, but not viruses.

Which is why, cruise after cruise resulted in plague ships, and no matter how well they cleaned the ship after, they keep getting Norovirus epidemics.

Why shouldn’t the same thing happen with Coronavirus?


20 posted on 06/20/2021 10:17:07 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Do kids in Iceland still play "The Floor Is Lava?")
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