Posted on 07/11/2021 9:12:54 AM PDT by Capt. Tom
A cruise on one of the first vessels to restart operations in Alaska is ending early after two passengers and a crew member tested positive for COVID-19.
Small-ship specialist American Cruise Lines‘ 170-passenger American Constellation is returning to its home port of Juneau, Alaska, four days ahead of schedule after the positive cases were discovered on Friday.
The ship was visiting the small Alaska town of Petersburg at the time.
“American Cruise Lines has implemented its COVID-19 response plan in Alaska and is coordinating with state and local health officials following the detection of COVID-19 on board,” the line said early Saturday in a statement sent to TPG. “Out of an abundance of caution, the line’s small ship will return to port in Juneau and the next cruise, scheduled to depart on July 14th, will be canceled.”
The two passengers and one crew member who tested positive for COVID-19, along with their close contacts, were taken off the ship in Petersburg and isolated, the government of Juneau said in a press release.
The ship was sailing with 162 passengers and 52 crew members, including an onboard nurse — all of whom were tested for COVID-19 after a passenger began feeling ill.
All of the passengers were required to be fully vaccinated to sail. Many, but not all, of the crew were fully vaccinated.
The government of Juneau said unvaccinated crew members will be quarantined on board the ship in Juneau for 10 days. The remaining passengers on board will be flown home from Juneau.
Isolated cases of COVID-19 on the cruise ships that have restarted operations in recent months are not unusual, and cruise lines have new protocols in place designed to minimize both the spread of the illness and the disruption to the cruise experience when such cases occur. The situation aboard American Constellation is unusual in that it is resulting in the early cancellation of the current sailing and the next sailing of the vessel.
Indeed, American Constellation is the only cruise vessel that has restarted operations in North America in recent months to have a sailing cut short due to COVID-19.
American Cruise Lines was one of the first cruise operators in North America to restart sailings and until this week had carried more than 10,000 passengers on 130 sailings this year without incident, according to the line.
The Connecticut-based line is the leader in small-ship cruises in U.S. waters with 13 vessels that sail along coastal waterways and on rivers from New England to the Pacific Northwest and Alaska.
A spokesperson for the line told TPG that passengers on this week’s American Constellation sailing would be compensated for the portion of the trip they will miss.
I’d live to see more info on the testing protocol in use. Saliva vs nasal, cycle threshold info, etc.
If I was one of the people getting locked up, I’d be getting a second opinion using a private lab.
“Why am I misleading?”
Because of your bias?
How about a body condom cruise? That should be memorable and fun.
Just send all the bills to the chicoms.
Two so- called Vaccinated passengers test positive.
Everybody has to understand these experimental drugs are not vaccines.
I am not an anti-vaccineer; I bet I have had more shots than most Freepers.
I am presently un-vaccinated because when I was ready to get my yearly flu shot I saw how everyone was behaving, wearing masks-social distancing -avoiding personal contact etc. -so I figured I wouldn't even have a chance to catch a common cold, so I passed on getting any shots.
I volunteered for certain medical studies in the Army and afterwards at the VA , but it was well explained the downside of some of these programs and you did it voluntarily to help out others.
With these experimental drugs they(The Govt.-CDC- pharmaceutical companies-Globalists -etc.) are making ordinary unsuspecting people take them by calling them vaccines and shaming people who are leery of being involved in a questionable experiment .
Along with the rest of us, Cruise lines worldwide will suffer from these Socialist ,Communist, American hating; Government instituted COVID programs. -Tom
Excellent post. Your last paragraph is soooo true.
Hubby and I went on a 7 day cruise to Alaska in 2015. Crew was all over us to use the foam hand cleaner that was stationed all over the boat. One morning, I wanted to sleep in a little and our housekeeping person was beside herself urging us out of the stateroom. While Alaska was beautiful, I could not wait to get off that boat. Never again
I just shake my head at society. I think we are regressing intellectually and lacking critical thinking skills.
Half the time on our Alaskan Cruise we were getting lectured about Global Warming with the receding Glaciers.
I really want to take a cruise for the first time. I appreciate & enjoy your threads.
Luckily, we didn’t have that. I would have thought cruising would be relaxing. I certainly was not. I can’t even imagine how it is now. I don’t care to know.
That’s how at least some of the colleges and universities are doing it too...the students have to be vaxxed, but employees and staff are merely “encouraged”.
My theory is that employees represent a potential liability (increased health insurance premiums) if they get sick from the vax, but a student (or in this case passenger) that gets sick from it is not their problem...moreover, they’re easily replaced.
COVID just has a better press agent.
That is true- and if you bombarded the public with all kinds of dogs biting people stories, attacking toddlers etc. stories; after a few months people would be reticent to pat a friendly looking dog that they don't own. -Tom
This is not true. Some vaccines confer sterilizing immunity, others just prevent the disease associated with the virus. Some are in between, and very few protect 100%. Polio vaccine (IPV) is a good example of a vaccine that does not prevent infection by the poliovirus, but prevents poliomyelitis, the associated disease.
People are setting unreasonable and unattainable expectations for COVID vaccines. They were never going to provide sterilizing immunity for 100% of people.
Then why are there are any freedoms or liberties offered to those who take this "vaccine" (be it on a cruise ship or at a place of employment)?
If someone who takes this "virtue vax" can still catch or transmit the virus (or even get seriously ill and die from it, which is still a possibility, despite what its promoters say), then they can't be allowed any more liberties than if they hadn't gotten it.
The mystery is why people are treating this shot as a cure-all even when they are faced with the evidence that it's not.
You MUST take this “vaccine” because otherwise you will get the virus, but if you take the “vaccine” you will still get the virus. Makes a lot of sense doesn’t it?
Paranoia is going to kill the cruise industry.
Then cease and desist with any demands that those who get this shot are free to go about their lives as if they had no risk of infection, transmission, or even death from this virus.
People are getting this shot with the belief that it is protecting them from getting or transmitting the virus; not only are they still spreading it, some of them are dying from it.
Pinging entropy12. Hope your cruise goes better than this...
Right now I feel that I am out of the flu season, and have a few more months before I consider getting a flu VAX.
Right now the J&J vax would be my choice.-Tom
Interesting that they required vaccines for the passengers but not the crew. And goes to show that the “vaccine” does not create immunity and is mostly worthless as a preventive course of action for the CCP flu. It would have been more interesting if the entire crew were vaccinated. Then what would they do?
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