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Can a Gay Cruise Keep 4,700 People Safe Amid COVID?
The New York Times ^ | January 16, 2022 | Ceylan Yeginsu

Posted on 01/16/2022 11:45:24 AM PST by Capt. Tom

As the omicron variant of the coronavirus continues to surge onboard cruise ships, forcing several cruise lines to cancel and postpone voyages, Atlantis Events, a gay and lesbian tour operator, is preparing to launch one of its biggest events Sunday: a 4,700-person Caribbean cruise marking the company’s 30th anniversary.

Even as the pandemic is raging around the world and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a stark warning telling Americans to avoid travel on cruise ships, regardless of their vaccination status, Atlantis insists that its vaccination mandate, testing requirements and health protocols are enough to provide a safe environment for guests throughout the voyage. Many passengers are convinced.

“It’s time to start living our lives again, and vaccines and tests allow us to do that. This isn’t COVID 2020,” said Andre Mayer, a graphic designer from Germany who paid more than $4,000 for the weeklong cruise on board Royal Caribbean’s Oasis of the Seas. “This is going to be the wildest party for our community in two years. I’m talking dirty dancing, sex, drugs, raves, orgies and sweet, sweet freedom.”

For the hundreds of cruise passengers who contracted the coronavirus on board other ships in recent weeks, many falling ill and spending days in quarantine, their experience couldn’t have been further from the carefree vacation that Mayer anticipates.

For some booked on the anniversary cruise and other Atlantis events, these reports and the omicron wave of the virus are causing them to reconsider their plans.

“The COVID reality changes so quickly that there needs to be more flexibility,” said Aiden Morgan, a 44-year-old dance teacher from Boston. Morgan sold his ticket for the Atlantis Tropical Americas Cruise later this month on Facebook but was only offered $1,480 for his $3,800 ticket.

(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Society; Travel
KEYWORDS: bugchasers; gaycruise; giftgivers; homosexualagenda; qanon
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To: Capt. Tom

Once again the NYT writing a headline for the Babylon Bee.


21 posted on 01/16/2022 12:10:36 PM PST by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: dynachrome

“””Cleaning the pools and hot tubs will be a major operation.”””


I also have empathy for the crew in the laundry room who have to wash the bed sheets.


22 posted on 01/16/2022 12:13:50 PM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: Capt. Tom

Never understood self segregation.


23 posted on 01/16/2022 12:15:02 PM PST by Wuli
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To: Capt. Tom

Would anyone be comfortable taking this ship in the following cruise?


24 posted on 01/16/2022 12:15:20 PM PST by alternatives? (The only reason to have an army is to defend your borders.)
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To: steve86

““Personally I don’t care what you do in private”
You aren’t Christian? Don’t care they offend God?”

Agree - that was the loophole the Left used to take over our society. To keep a society from collapsing, its members MUST care what is done in private, because its effects ALWAYS spill out in public. In this case, it’s gays (and teachers) recruiting innocent kids to become gays, for example. They had to get out of the closet first, before they could take over our classrooms.


25 posted on 01/16/2022 12:15:31 PM PST by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: Capt. Tom

-—keep —people safe? Well knowing where they are will certainly keep me safe. And they’ve created another kraphole place I don’t have to go to. The WINS just keep on coming!


26 posted on 01/16/2022 12:16:55 PM PST by OldWarBaby
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To: entropy12; Jane Long
*PING* to the cruising cruise boy with regard to gay cruising and government injections....

In the butt.


27 posted on 01/16/2022 12:18:07 PM PST by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: StAnDeliver
Now, check this out. On the day they permitted Oasis to sail, Royal Caribbum cancelled 5 other major cruises in this time frame; kowtowing to the homos for this previously-rescheduled "anniversary" cruise.

If Andre Mayer has his way it is going to be a wild time cruise. Read the excerpted part of the article below. -Tom

“It’s time to start living our lives again, and vaccines and tests allow us to do that. This isn’t COVID 2020,” said Andre Mayer, a graphic designer from Germany who paid more than $4,000 for the weeklong cruise on board Royal Caribbean’s Oasis of the Seas. “This is going to be the wildest party for our community in two years. I’m talking dirty dancing, sex, drugs, raves, orgies and sweet, sweet freedom.”

28 posted on 01/16/2022 12:22:04 PM PST by Capt. Tom (.It's COVID 2022 - The Events, not us, are still in charge. )
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To: Signalman

You are so wrong. Only the MEN on our.....I mean *their* cruise will look fabulous.


29 posted on 01/16/2022 12:22:44 PM PST by alstewartfan ("She looks like she's 19 years old, sitting there like a lady with her legs crossed." Creepy Joe)
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To: steve86

God will take care of his creatures accordingly.

I need to make sure I don’t offend our God.

That is a full time job.


30 posted on 01/16/2022 12:24:24 PM PST by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives)
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To: bagster
In the butt.

What What

31 posted on 01/16/2022 12:25:56 PM PST by humblegunner (Ain't drownin', Just wavin'...)
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To: Capt. Tom

And they’re worried about covid? 🤔


32 posted on 01/16/2022 12:26:10 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: Capt. Tom

I have to laugh, just this morning I see some Carnival Lines (the disease ships) pulling into our bay. First cruise ship in a couple years.

Never heard anyone say they missed the damn things.


33 posted on 01/16/2022 12:26:35 PM PST by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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To: steve86

You can always count on someone in FR who immediately puts a litmus test on people, you don’t agree with me, you must not be a Christian as if you are the one to decide.

You have no idea who I am or what god I believe in, the god I worship doesn’t condemn people or accuse them of being non-believers.


34 posted on 01/16/2022 12:26:55 PM PST by srmanuel (`)
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To: Capt. Tom

“If you can find 50 righteous people on that ship I will spare it”.


35 posted on 01/16/2022 12:29:26 PM PST by Karl Spooner
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To: webheart

Not if they all sit down and keep their mouths shut


36 posted on 01/16/2022 12:35:12 PM PST by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: Capt. Tom; George from New England; cll; DarthFuzball; Tennessee Nana; Fai Mao; CodeToad; ...

You might be interested in this thread. -Tom


37 posted on 01/16/2022 12:37:48 PM PST by Capt. Tom (.It's COVID 2022 - The Events, not us, are still in charge. )
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To: al baby
Not if they all sit down and keep their mouths shut.

It's impossible to be a homo with your mouth shut and sitting down.

Think about it.


38 posted on 01/16/2022 12:38:01 PM PST by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: Capt. Tom

Not a “social” disease expert but I would think that COVID would be the least dangerous disease they are going to expose themselves to.


39 posted on 01/16/2022 12:40:09 PM PST by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: Capt. Tom

the poor hard working normal kids 20’s somethings have to witnees the vileness of it all that week.


40 posted on 01/16/2022 12:43:11 PM PST by Hammerhead
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