Posted on 04/01/2025 6:56:38 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
More than 200 people aboard a still-at-sea Cunard Line cruise bound for New York, including members of the crew, contracted norovirus in the latest cruise ship outbreak of the nasty stomach bug.
Of the 2,538 guests on Cunard’s Queen Mary 2, 224 reported getting ill on the current voyage along with 17 crew members, this month, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The cruise departed from Southampton, England on March 8 to set out for New York and later the Caribbean. The entire journey, however, doesn’t conclude until April 6, leaving the rest of the guests stuck at sea as the viral infection sweeps through the ship.
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Our friends that became physicians tell horror stories to this day about their intern rotation thru hospital pediatrics. Sickness for six months.
My only cruise experience was on a small ship with less than 85 passengers going up the southeast coast on the inland waterway. It was a delightful experience. I can’t imagine taking a cruise with thousands of other passengers. I vacation to get away and find peace not sign on to a crowded floating city.
So what your saying is Norovirus can be contracted on places other than a cruise ship correct?
See, the deceitful media would have people believe it can only be contracted on cruise ships.
And I bet there’s a few on this thread that believe the same thing.
Omnivore-Dan wrote: “My wife and I did not get sick for many years, then our kids went to school, brought home all sorts of disease. Our kids got over being sick in a day or two. I felt like warmed over death for a week. Yuk.”
Cruise ships might be petri dishes but k-12 schools are petri pots.
Its NOT WASHING YOUR HANDS AFTER YOU GO TO THE BATHROOM AND BEFORE YOU EAT !
Obviously these folks were never part of the chicken pox parties of the 70’s and 80’s. Same thing, really.
I am fortunate to own an rv and never been on a cruise vessel. Nor will I. Prefer not to associate with most of the masses particularly those that wipe their rumps with hands and remain unwashed. Those that spew all around just not my cup of tea- but have a wonderful adventure.
Went on a cruise with the wife in January, her first, my 2nd in 40 years.
At the entrance to each restaurant and buffet were washing stations with attendants saying “washy washy before yummy yummy! Most people did wash their hands. Didn’t get sick and the food was really good, but stuck on the ship for 5 days was a bit confining.
Never had the desire. Looks like a disaster from the beginning.
The news stories prove my theory.
You know the funniest part of the covid debacle was?
They tried to contain it by forcing people against their will to quarantine.
Yet, they left the transportation industry to continue.
Touch a door nob? Its got the virus. Touch a sink faucet? Its got the virus on it. Etc.
Here in the county where we live, reported that they sent investigators to study why we didnt have high rates of infection. What’d they come up with? People got outdoors. And BTW, not many people had face masks on. Matter of fact, i experienced a couple from ORE that were shocked nobody wore masks in a local store.
I caught it only after i flew on a plane.
We are now on our 112th cruise.
Thats a lot of trips!!
I have no desire to take a cruise on one of those big petri dishes.
And I don’t visit schools.
I have no desire to take a cruise on a giant petri dish.
That’s right. Besides, I don’t like crowds.
Yes!
norovirus is a scourge in communal living conditions in which folks dine together in common dining rooms, situations like retirement homes and cruise lines ...
infection is spread by contact with surfaces contaminated by invisible amounts of vomit and poop on said surfaces ...
norvirus is extremely contagious and can live on uncleaned surfaces for up to two weeks ... surface virus can be killed only by thorough cleaning with a sodium hypochlorite solution like Clorox ...
nasty, nasty, nasty virus ...
Ah, diversity and DEI, hiring third world cheap labor and mixing them in amongst us. What could possibly go wrong. Idiots.
SS1
They are! My barber told me a mother brought a kid in with lice on his head. He told the mother to take him and leave, get some stuff for the lice and don’t come back until they are gone. She acted like she didn’t even know he had lice. It wasn’t long before the school nurse had to inspect every kid.
I was thinking about a trip around the whole country, around the north by the great lakes, then west to Washington then south along the west coast, then east all the way down to the keys, then up north through the Smokies and the Blueridge mts. Probably take a couple months.
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