Posted on 12/19/2021 2:44:47 PM PST by Capt. Tom
Forty-eight passengers and crew members tested positive for COVID-19 on Royal Caribbean’s Symphony of the Seas ship, which docked at PortMiami on Saturday, the cruise company said.
Miami-based Royal Caribbean said in a statement on Sunday that each person who tested positive immediately went into quarantine. Six people who had tested positive disembarked the ship mid-voyage and were transported home.
The passengers who tested positive were either asymptomatic or had mild symptoms.
The new cases come as the omicron variant is quickly spreading across the United States, potentially throwing a wrench in holiday travel plans. Royal Caribbean said that Symphony of Sea’s future trips would not be affected. The ship has left Miami for a new trip to Mexico, according to vesselfinder.com.
The ship that pulled into Miami on Saturday left port on Dec. 11 with 6,091 passengers and crew on board, 95% of whom were fully vaccinated. Of the 48 who tested positive for Covid-19, 98% were fully vaccinated.
The 48 confirmed cases may be a setback for the cruise industry, which has slowly restarted over the past six months.
Cruise industry leaders say that being on a cruise ship is the safest kind of vacation travelers can take at the moment because of the controlled environment where they can mandate vaccines. But breakthrough infections have the potential to put the industry in a bad spot again.
Cruises were COVID-19 hot spots at the onset of the pandemic, causing the industry to completely shut down for over a year. Many cruise lines had to take on massive debts while they were unable to make any revenue for the better part of a year.
This report will be updated.
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True that.
Lockdowns and masks and all that were very popular among the general population (not here on FR of course!). If Omicron turns out to be mild, one would hope these measures would not remain popular and the politicians would follow the polling. But people can be stupid and silly, so who knows?
I suppose hope springs eternal in me, can’t help hoping.
Obviously, ‘a pandemic of the unvaxxed’!
</sarc>
That will bankrupt the Cruise Industry.
You can see how fragile their recovery is becoming.
On the 16th, St Lucia would not let another Royal Caribbean ship come ashore because of a fear of covid infections onboard. -Tom .
But, but...
Are you saying folks should read the article? 🙄
Note that the Brandon Media shill Anna Jean Kaiser couldn't say it:
47 of the 48 who tested positive for Covid-19 were fully vaccinated.
So this new variant is causing pneumonia? As opposed to the old variant?
Just the opposite. Omicron as far as I have read does NOT cause pneumonia. it appears to be strictly an upper respiratory infection
Yeah....poor us....we have to stay home and clean and cook our own healthy foods....that we know the exact quality of, and, prepare in our clean kitchens....all while Mr ePotter cruises along eating rehashed, GOK where it’s been (before, during) warmed over food, ‘prepared’ by who knows whose hands, sweat, tears....you get the picture.
Yeah....poor us 😂
Yep....Pandemic of the Jabbed.
Have you read this?
Stunning Covid data from Denmark
But not for the reason you’ve been told; the story is vaccine failure, not Omicron ...
Omicron - which continues to appear significantly less dangerous though more transmissible than earlier variants of Covid - has been used as a cover for vaccine failure. ...
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/stunning-covid-data-from-denmark
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/stunning-covid-data-from-denmark
45 people? Aren’t there thousands on board?
Of the 48 who tested positive for Covid-19, 98% were fully vaccinated.
‘Nuff said.
They are really beating up on the cruise lines now . Read the article below. -Tom
I don’t see anywhere on that link that ANYONE DIED. Zero deaths. Cursed tests ruling the world.
Whoever told you that vaccines “prevent” infection is a complete idiot. No vaccine has EVER constructed a filter in nose to stop virus material from floating in.
Only thing vaccine can do is create extra stock of anti-bodies to fight the virus when it has invaded your body.
Only thing vaccine can do is create extra stock of anti-bodies to fight the virus when it has invaded your body.
O, rly?
When did you last test yours…..before, or after your third (is it?) shot? And, what we’re your Ab levels?
“On the 16th, St Lucia would not let another Royal Caribbean ship come ashore because of a fear of covid infections onboard”
sounds like much more of that will bankrupt the cruising industry as well ...
Not only no one died, they were all asymptomatic (no symptoms of sickness). All it means the virus material invaded their bodies, but their bodies were keeping the virus from growing to cause symptoms.
And yes they will make home test kits available for you, so a false positive can further hamstring you. -tom
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