Posted on 08/15/2021 9:11:16 AM PDT by Capt. Tom
Good luck if you’d like to know how many people infected with COVID-19 are coming into South Florida seaports aboard cruise ships.
Cruise lines and government agencies are not making that data publicly available as the cruise industry resumes operations from U.S.-based ports. Critics who want to see more transparency say cruise consumers and community members deserve to know how successful cruise lines are at preventing spread of the virus.
Twenty-seven ships that currently operate or will be operating in U.S. waters have reported COVID-19 infections to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention since cruising resumed this summer, according to the CDC’s website on Saturday.
Of the 27 ships, 14 are sailing with passengers. Ten have not yet returned to passenger service and are operating with crew members only, and three have undertaken only simulated or test cruises required by the CDC for ships that plan to sail with more than 5% of unvaccinated passengers.
Forty ships monitored by the CDC have reported no infections, but the CDC doesn’t post the number of infections found aboard the others.
It fell to the Tourism Board of Belize last Wednesday to confirm 27 cases aboard a Carnival Cruise Line ship, the Carnival Vista, that was scheduled to return to the Port of Galveston over the weekend. Twenty-six of those infected are crew members and one is a passenger, the Central American nation said in a news release on Wednesday.
Most of the infected crew members work closely with passengers in the ship’s restaurants and casinos as well as its housekeeping, entertainment and beverage departments, according to information that Miami-based maritime attorney Jim Walker said ..
Prior to the news release from Belize, Carnival Cruise Line, headquartered in Miami, would say only that it had “a small number” of cases onboard.
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HA! This is rich! The media wants to find out how many people aboard cruise ships have COVID, while apparently caring nothing about the infected and unexamined “migrants” pouring over our southern border daily!
Such a great point. Let’s get a bee in our bonnet about a couple dozen people getting covid on a cruise, but tens of thousands covid-positive people streaming across the border every month? No worries! It’s all good.
The Biden Administration.
Because they didn’t sail from Florida
Quite so. Censorship destroys trust.
Or they’re run by cat ladies and psychopaths...
The “vaccines” are working. They are a cure for Wuhan flu hysteria, not a vaccine for the flu. Hysteria sufferers who get the vaccine overcome their hysteria, drop their precautions and get the flu. The success of the vaccinations is measured by the number of vaccinated who get the flu.
Is any data from foreign cruise lines available?
Accept that all those floating petri dishes contain covid.
So tired of all the narrative-engineering around the virus and vaccines. Any data not conforming to the official narrative is suppressed. Goof for this paper for wanting to see the numbers. The more we ask to see, the harder it will be to hide!
Ding ding ding...finally a post with common sense.
Cases? WTH that means? Since no one walks around with a shield of air tight glass around them, all airborne viruses (covid included) can and will float into the respiratory system of people still breathing. And a “case” could be born. But if the person’s body is dealing with the virus, keeping it under control and there are no serious symptoms such as fever, cough or blood in urine, where is the problem? That person is subduing the virus with their immune system, and CREATING MORE ANTI-BODIES to kill future virus invasions, as a side benefit.
So, you are right, if no one is dying or near death with serious symptoms, the “cases” are just a tool to scare people.
Not entirely correct. Vaccines can never protect one from virus invasions. Because no vaccine I know of builds a shroud of airtight glass around the body. If you are breathing, and an infected person is breathing near you, the virus can float into lungs.
The job of vaccines is to prepare the body with anti-bodies so that when the virus arrives, the body has a better chance to kill the virus before the virus kills you.
In personal experience, I was vaccinated with smallpox vaccine but 3 years later I got infected. But the anti-bodies did their job and I did not join the 30% mortality group from smallpox. That was 70 years ago. Smallpox vaccine has been so successful, it has practically eradicated the disease from earth. But even that vaccine could not prevent me from getting infected.
when sloppy joe opened the border, invited, welcomed, and started to spread hundreds of thousands of disease carrying invaders across our country during a “global pandemic” he proved our government doesn’t care about our health and this is a scam that’s designed to scare and divide people while our government officials destroy our country...
Joe is a democrat, and no democrat since perhaps Truman, has cared about the country and Americans. It is strictly all about remaining in power to spend tax payers money and enrich themselves in the process. Bush league republicans are pretty much the same as well.
True in the general sense, but my comment was specifically about the purported Wuhan flu “vaccines”.
Our family of 4 have already done 36 cruises all over the world, and no one ever got even a cold on any of our cruises. Cruises was our family vacation because it was so much better value than any other vacation. The kids never went to Disney until they were in college and went on their own, once. Now they are 28 & 30 years old, with husbands, and we still do cruises together.
The covid vaccines have allowed me to book a cruise next month without requiring pre-boarding covid tests and other nuisance. And non of the people in family had any adverse effects after 160 days after 2nd shots.
sloppy joe has proven that the kung flu is a scam that’s designed to divide and conquer our nation...
people are too busy arguing about the virus and the vaccines to care about what’s actually happening...
What has vaccination got to do with PREVENTION of infection?
Does any vaccine cover your body with airtight glass enclosure?
If you are still breathing, and someone near you is exhaling virus material, how can any vaccine prevent that virus from floating into your lungs?
But there is a night and day difference between testing positive and getting seriously sick with the virus. Only thing any vaccine can do is prepare your body BETTER to fight the virus AFTER it enters the body.
Can’t escape the fact that Americans are scared of covid, right or wrong. Covid vaccines in just a month or two will have been voted by THREE times as many Americans than votes president Trump received in either run.
Any presidential candidate in 2024 who under-estimates fear of Americans for covid will go down in defeat. Probably much worse defeat than Trump, since no one has the charisma of PDJT. Not even close.
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