Posted on 07/11/2021 9:12:54 AM PDT by Capt. Tom
They will be quarantined along with their healthy contacts.
This cruise line seems to have a "Stop the world, I want to get off" reaction to a COVID out break. But remember this is an American flagged cruise ship and is subject to American filed lawsuits by the other passengers. - Tom
Pathetic.
2021 is turning into a clown show.
The cruise industry is screwed. I hate to say it, but even prior to Covid it was the #1 hotspot for outbreaks of norovirus and other more common illnesses.
We are now learning that even the vaccine does not stop you from getting the virus although it can mitigate the illness for some. Full disclosure, the fine print never said it prevented you from getting the virus.
If I owned a cruise line I would do a prophylactic cruise where everyone agrees to take the remedies before they board the boat (and during the cruise if more than 3 days). Somebody should try that idea to save the industry because under the current guidelines and public health policy the ships will remain idle.
The clowns are in charge.
Huh?
I hate to think how much it cost just to maintain a giant cruise ship. Has to be well over $25 million per year.
Were all 3 fully vaccinated?
Were they showing any symptoms?
if a virus doesn’t show any symptoms... is it really a threat?
Hmmmm.....so much for THAT requirement.
It would serve as a good test of the efficacy of the prophylactics as well. For some reason, the CDC and leftist politicians do not seem to want to know if the prophylactics work.
“We are now learning that even the vaccine does not stop you from getting the virus although it can mitigate the illness for some. Full disclosure, the fine print never said it prevented you from getting the virus.”
Full disclosure? Why do you intentionally mislead?
The "vaccine" was never advertised as a way to not get the China Virus. Rather it was advertised as preventing serious illness or death should the person receiving the "vaccine" contract the virus.
To this day, I fail to understand why it's called a "vaccine" since traditional vaccines actually prevent an infection.
I bet it’s much more than $25,000. The crew size is huge and then you have the fuel and maintenance.
Now you have to add in the cost of constant testing on the ship and when someone inevitably tests positive or becomes ill you have the ships stores on board that are completely wasted.
The food is good and it ain’t cheap. Fuel and food costs have both become more expensive. The profit margin for this industry was not that great before the pandemic with cheap energy and food costs.
The only answer will be to find people willing to cruise who accept that someone on the boat will test positive and they don’t care, but I don’t think many of us fully realize what is still being done in the name of the pandemic. There are still thousands of Australian citizens who have not been allowed to return home for a year due to Covid. Canada is still shut down.
These are goofy times.
There are approximately a zillion diseases one could catch every day. On board ship or anywhere. Certainly some more lethal than COVID.
COVID just has a better press agent.
America is now operating like a grade school teacher making the whole class stay after school because one kid misbehaved.
Good point @ 12.
I think in hindsight, if Trump could have pushed anything harder during Covid he wishes he had pushed treatments as hard as the vaccine push. We could have done both.
I hear people say all the time that if there was a remedy they would not have gotten the EUA to allow the vaccines to be approved. That was nothing more than a pen swipe for Trump.
Instead, we let the media dominate the response for partisan purposes. The biggest bunch of moronic know-nothings in the history of humanity called the shots because orange man bad.
Why am I misleading?
The media and Fraudci said the vaccine did things that those who made the vaccines never said. They have also neglected to talk about things the vaccines are doing that big pharma refuses to admit.
Knowing this, the cruise lines are trying to dance a very fine line. They need capacity cruises to get into the black financially, but every cruise represents a gamble because their entire business model involves being allowed to cycle as many people through their floating disease incubators as they can.
It's probably not so much of a gamble for the patrons, there are plenty of people out there just itching to get on a boat and turn off their brains for a week, covid be damned, and they accept the risks that go along with it. It's those government bureaucrats that think their entire job is to eliminate danger and risk from the world that are the real threat. Turn off a segment of customers and you market to a different segment. Become a concern of the government and there's no other government you can market to as an alternative.
Trump put Pence in charge. Pence actually received an email from a pair of doctors touting HCQ that was CC: to Fauxi.
After 3+ years of attacks, some even from repubs, Trump seemed a little gun shy.
To be fair and appear impartial they should start testing people leaving grocery stores. When someone tests positive shut the store down.
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