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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My wife works in a hospital, I’m retired. She had a choice: take the shots or be fired. Some choice after over 20 years there. I did not take any shots. We both got the virus, and both of us had mild cases. Her shots did nothing to protect her. Her good health did.
You could pay me to be on one of those top-heavy, Petri dish, ghetto boats.
***couldn’t pay me***
I took the first dose and that was the end of that. Got sicker than hell. Wife had to get both.
Both got it but mine was mild. She was down for days. I was down for one day.
Its the after effects that were a problem.
The fact is, it effected people in different ways. Some got it real bad and some little.
And i have COPD and still got over it.
If you go, i suggest Mackinaw city, the island, US 2 to Iron Mountain, north to US 41, north to the Keweenaw peninsula to Copper Harbor, stop at Eagle Harbor, etc, back down through Ironwood to Duluth and where ever from there.
At Eagle Harbor, if you go stand on the rocks waterside, your standing on the earths exposed crust and on the southern edge of the mid continental rift.
At Calumet, youll be able to see the copper mining hay days. There is about a 16 ton, or so lump of nearly pure copper on display there...or there used to be anyway.
MTU at Houghton. They got a hell of a mineral display there.
At Iron Mountain, the Cornish Pump museum.
Fayette state park-reserved pig iron smelting town.
Big springs state park.
Porcupine mountains and lake.
At Ironwood/Bessemer swing a short trip across the state line and visit Hurley Wi...before Las Vegas, there was Hurley Wi. The wildest WORLD INFAMOUS, town in America back in the mining and logging boom. Most of what the mob learned about stuff was learned from Hurley Wi.
Just a few suggestions.
Wow. My father was from Minnesota, and I’ve been there many times, but not within the last 30 years or so. We’ve been up to thunder bay, up around Ontario, but I’ve never been to Michigan or northern Wisconsin, I’d love to see the Upper Peninsula. We’ve been all around the northeast, some beautiful sights there, and a lot of history also, but want to see different places.
You wash your paws, not a problem.
But noro can also be foodborne.
How do you wash your prepared meals...?
That’s why we don’t go on cruises.
BTW. Another heads up. On US 41 at Michigamme the Mount Shasta restaurant. Right alongside the highway.
Its a log building. A restaurant now.
If youve ever seen the movie Anatomy of a Murder..Jimmy Stewart, et al, a scene or two was filmed there.
I dunno if the memorabilia is still up on the walls there or not but...its on the way. Ask them and they’ll clue you in.
I dunno if youve ever watched that movie or not but it got several academy awards. I never like the musical score though but its one good movie.
FYI.
One of the many films I need to see again. Another is a thriller by Hitchcock, North by Northwest. Must be over 40 years since I’ve seen either one. Classics.
Oh, lol, another one. Right alongside the highway. Alberta Mi. You go down the hill past the highway 28 41 intersection, stay on 41 north, you come to Alberta. Town built by Henry Ford back in the early 1900s for logging. Its a museum of sorts now. Used to be a guy there that took folks on tours of the mill and stuff. Dunno if thats the case yet or not.
Does norovirus only infest cruise ships? You almost never hear about it cropping up anywhere else...
Quincy mine museum at Hancock.
Right along the highway.
BTW, at Mackinaw City, the British Fort is a historical site. On the Island, the whole island is a historical site from the 17th 18th and 19th centuries. No motorized vehicles on that island. Horse drawn carriages. The hotel is where a few movies were filmed.
All these have web sites.
I’ll quit now.
Bad oysters?
BTW, since your pop is from MN i doubt your Italian. But if you are, and can speak some, you will like Iron Mountain.
I dont know if there’s still people up there that still speak it or not but there used to be.
No, no Italian that I know of anyway. My father was from German descent on both sides. He met who would become my mother in Normandy shortly after D day. She was French on both sides for centuries. I’m half French & half German. Some mix huh?
mewzilla wrote:
“You wash your paws, not a problem.”
“But noro can also be foodborne.”
“How do you wash your prepared meals...?”
“That’s why we don’t go on cruises.”
Do you avoid dining in commercial restaurants, neighborhood BBQ’s, etc.
Well, she would certainly enjoy the U.P. of Michigan.
St Ignace, Manistique, St Jaques, Bay De Noc, Escanaba, L’Anse, Baraga Marquette..etc.
French voyagers first arrived in the 17th century? to scout to set up trading posts.
Mackinaw Island was once controlled by the French, then the Brits, then the Americans, then the Brits, then the Americans finally.
Most all the main waterways have French or French and indian names.
I misread. It was your mother who was from France. I assume Normandy?
My ancestors came from Normandy to England with William the conquerer. They were from Cuilly or some place named.
Anyway, thats niether here nor there.
I remember trips to Montreal and Quebec City when I was young. Quite a bit different now, Montreal especially, but a lot of French. Went to Montreal in 2005 for the Jazz Fest. It was amazing.
Those are Canucks. French Canadians.
The Parisian French dont like them i am told.
Who knows. I dont care.
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