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Mickelicious
Déjà news.
CaptDingleheimer
...and most of the people who think cruises are fun are the blue collar, "Murica!" crowd who are probably (proudly) unvaccinated because "freedom".
RegBilk
Ten people aboard a Norwegian Cruise Line ship approaching New Orleans have tested positive for COVID-19, officials said Saturday night.
Who takes cruises these days? I'll fly all over the place though.
rainyday
Why in god’s name are people still getting on board those things in the first place?
Mr Kipling
Hello..... 24 hour all you can eat and drink buffets! and daily BINGO!
Desert Tortoise
Nope, not based on the 7-day average ending December 4. Go ahead and divide the number of cases by the populations of each state. Florida's infection rate is far from the lowest in the US.
https://usafacts.org/visualizations/coronavirus-covid-19-spread-map/
Desert Tortoise
Norwegian Cruise line is getting around the Florida law by asking passengers for proof of vaccination once underway where they are no longer bound by Florida law. They sued Florida to have the law overthrown but the suit is still working through the court system however they made it clear to Florida they would relocate their ships if push came to shove. For now they ask for proof of vaccination once the ship is outside of Florida.
wtfjapan
Florida's infection rate is far from the lowest in the US.
exactly even with a vaccine its one of the highest ifections rates, even higher than CA NY but about 20%
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109004/coronavirus-covid19-cases-rate-us-americans-by-state/
aorry if the facts hurt your feeling, downvotes sustain me lol
diagonalslip
two years in, and people still haven't grasped what's going on.
Blacklabel
“You want to cruise. We want to keep you safe. With Norwegian, our leading Health & Safety Programme allows you and your loved ones to cruise with the ultimate freedom and confidence. All guests and crew are required to be 100% fully vaccinated”
https://www.ncl.com/in/en/sail-safe
Kyo wa heiwa dayo ne
But which variant is it ?
Yeah iam sure they will be trusted to go directly home because people are extremely considerate of others.
If you believe that then there's no need to panic.
WilliB
On a cruise ship you can assume that everyone on board is infected, so it should be a good test for the severety of symptoms of the virus strain they have there. Lets skip the hysteria and wait for results.
WilliB
wtfjapan
Lets not confuse terms here: "infections" to not equal "cases", and "cases" do not equal symptoms, or problems.
And NOBODY knows the "infection" rate anywhere, except in situations like a cruise ship, where you can monitor everyone.
virusrex
Infection cases do mean the number of infections by definition.
A whole field of science is devoted to the methods to calculate things in a population from information detected on a sample. For all practical purposes a study of an adequate number of people can let the experts extrapolate things like the infection rate of the population they belong to.
Samit Basu
@CaptDingleheimer
Norwegian has a 100% vaccine requirement policy. Everyone onboard their ships are fully vaccinated, no exception.
Other cruise lines allow children too young to be vaccinated(Below 5) to get onboard with on site PCR test, but Norwegian's policy is no exception allowed, unvaccinated children stay home.
@RegBilk
Cruise booking is up 25% this year according to Expedia.
@rainyday
Because of vaccine mandate policies of cruise lines. Everyone onboard who are 5 and older are fully vaccinated, no exception. The only exception is Norwegian, which bans all unvaccinated children.
@Desert Tortoise
Florida law is rendered useless because all the destination countries are demanding proof of vaccination to enter. Hence cruise lines can now demand to see the proof of vaccination at the time of boarding, because their travel destinations demand it.
If the destination countries didn't demand to see the proof of vaccination, then Florida anti-vaccine passport law is enforceable, but not when the Bahamas, Jamaica, and Mexico demand proof of vaccination to enter.
Sanjinosebleed
All fully vaccinated no doubt...
Raw Beer
...but I'm sure they'll still blame the unvaccinated...