[Leonine]

I was on the Norwegian Sun three weeks ago. We had to put our hands under a sanitizer constantly--when we embarked, every morning at the breakfast buffet, before lunch, returning from a shore excursion, re-boarding from port, etc. The precaution was strictly enforced. Also, the balconies were sprayed silly with salt water, the towels were washed twice and were often in short supply, and on and on. I'm glad they were so careful--don't recall a single person with anything worse than seasickness.

[liberallyconservative]

Good to hear. I'm glad that particular line seems to be taking the neccessary precautions.

As a US Postal worker, the thought of any bioterrorism strikes fear in my heart. And the vast majority of the precautions taken by the USPS after the anthrax letters of Sept./Oct. 2001 were just as quickly abandoned when there was no further spread.

Initially, a large amount of funding was earmarked for expensive equipment to irradiate the mail. Sadly, haven't heard anything more about this in quite a while. I hope it hasn't been put on the back burner.