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.
“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.”
+1
Oh, there's a paper from the 80's the NIH has that Fauci had access to containing a study of Quinine based treatments against SARS-1, and the astounding mitigation of the disease. The way it was described as a 'family' of illnesses, it seemed more than highly probable they would work against another CoVID member of the family. FR posted within last couple of weeks.
Glaciers have been retreating since at least the late,1870s when John Muir went to Glacier Bay and found maps from 1700s inaccurate due to the retreat. He later went back with Avril Harriman on. Tour and found they had continued receding since he had seen them last. Yet now it’s all due to AGW…
“ This was in 1879, and Muir was a little-known conservationist on his first trip to Alaska, years away from founding the Sierra Club. Guided by four Tlingit Indians in a dugout cedar canoe, he pursued reports he’d heard about a bay with a massive “ice-mountain” at its head. Muir was working with nautical charts assembled by British explorers in the late 1700s, which proved to be wildly inaccurate. They showed a massive, impenetrable wall of glacial ice where the entrance to Glacier Bay is today. By the time Muir arrived, that wall—actually an enormous glacier—had pulled back more than 40 miles, leaving behind a thousand-foot-deep bay. Russell Island marked the farthest reach of his journey, for it was embedded in 200 feet of solid ice, a pebble crushed beneath the leading edge of a glacier that flowed back up beyond the horizon into Canada.
For the next 20 years, Muir returned repeatedly to Glacier Bay and its ever-changing landscape. He constructed a stone cabin at the foot of the majestic Muir Glacier, named in his honor, which due to Muir’s popular newspaper travelogues quickly became Alaska’s top tourist attraction. On his seventh and final visit, in 1899, Muir estimated that the ice wall had retreated four miles. Russell Island was surrounded by open water. Today that ice is 65 miles back from where it was shortly before those first British explorers arrived”
Exactly, we’re still coming out of the last Little Ice Age. But the people swallow this crap up.
Probably blame it on those unvaccinated deplorables that the vaccinated cruise ship passengers came in contact with , when the passengers went ashore in one of the ports.
Believe me there will be answers to keep the "get a vaccination crusade" narrative going. -Tom
"The beauty of being a liberal is that history always begins this morning."
-Ann Coulter
-PJ
I will say this about Ann, when she's right, she's right.
No kidding.
If somebody got symptoms, they should have treated it like a cold unless the person needed a hospital.
Do cruise ships halt a cruise if there’s a cold or flu going around?
Take a small ship. See AmaWaterways in Europe. Only about 160 ppl. First class service. We saw many wonderful countries (Hungary, Czeck Repub, Slovakia, Lithuania, Estonia, German river towns, etc.). First time? Make it AmaWaterways. Your personal driver picks you up at the airport in your personal Mercedes. ;-)
Sounds like a union problem is in the making.-Tom
Excerpt from The Maritime Executive:
Separately, American Cruise Lines was forced to cancel a scheduled cruise trip out of Juneau, Alaska after three people aboard the vessel American Constellation tested positive for COVID-19. Two of the individuals were fully-vaccinated passengers, and the third was an unvaccinated crewmember.
American Cruise Lines does not require vaccination as a condition of employment, the line told media, though most of its crewmembers are vaccinated.
Ridiculous. Norovirus is more harmful than the Election Virus.
Thank you so much! Looking them up now FRiend.
The test gives 90% false positives. Much damage has been done in the name of the test.
You ain’t lying.
Keep the info coming Capt Tom!
The only reason I would take one is that we can’t cruise without it. If I took one right now, it would be J&J, but I would prefer Novavax when it is available.
The Establishment wants us to take the TWO dose shots. - Tom
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-9781291/FDA-announce-new-warning-J-J-vaccine-reports-link-rare-autoimmune-disease.html
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