CDC Sends Letter to Cruise Industry loosening requirements for restart!

CDC just approved the Pfizer vaccine for 12 and up.. which may help with the kids on a cruise situation. I guess we shall soon see! I just wish CCL would hurry up and make an announcement.. the antici------pation is killing me!

But .. but .. that might make the fishies sick .....

They could just invoke "pirate rules". You get sick and you walk the plank. Problem solved.

You're right, I forgot myself...."NEXT 4 SENIORS...THIRD INSIDE CABIN ON YOUR LEFT....YOU THERE...YOU JUST GOT COVID!"..........."WAIT....YOU REALLY DID TEST POSITIVE!......WTF DO WE DO NOW?? "SHHHHH...DON'T SAY ANYTHING!".......WE'LL FLUNK AND GET FIRED...."....

It does sound like fun. I hope we can specify who we can volunteer to be. I want to be the guy quarantined in his cabin for a few days (with my family of course). I can get caught up on my reading. Who know, we may even get lucky and they'll lock us in an oceanview cabin.

Hey..... it's for science. Sacrifice is required for the good of all of mankind; or at least the ones who cruise.

PASSENGERS???? ROLE PLAY??? not even for $$...and yes...now it is nothing but harassment....sounds like a family fight to me, and we're the neighbors who have to deal with it....sounds like fun on one of these test cruises...no thankyou...not hardly THAT desperate......teach you rule #2 DON'T EVER VOLUNTEER...NEVER....only in the movies...........

NCL CEO made a statement that, based upon the written CDC instructions, they won't be able to sail in Jul. Seems to be some misunderstanding with the original April notice where test cruises could be skipped if crew/passenger vaccinations (at a high level) were in place. The actual instruction that came out last week undermines that previous assumption, so some level of test cruising will need to take place.

Volunteers must be vaccinated, but will "role play' various scenarios to test ship protocols. For example - passenger 125 plays an active case with symptoms (so is quarantined), another passenger plays another set of symptoms etc.

Its simply harassment at this point. Cruise lines will need to ship more operations overseas until the USG alters polices. Start budgeting for more airfare if you want to cruise.

I wouldn't want to pay for one of your cruises, even if it was just lazy-eights around the harbor.....BUT...you are certainly invited to pay for one of mine...I would accept it graciously...thankyou note and all...heheheheheheheh (btw....good to see you jumping in here...must be boredom)

Yep, I doubt 70% too, Yankee. Even the experts are blinking now.------ " In the pandemic’s early days, Dr. Fauci tended to cite the same 60 to 70 percent estimate that most experts did. About a month ago, he began saying “70, 75 percent” in television interviews.

And last week, in an interview with CNBC News, he said “75, 80, 85 percent” and “75 to 80-plus percent.” “We need to have some humility here,” he added. “We really don’t know what the real number is. I think the real range is somewhere between 70 to 90 percent. But, I’m not going to say 90 percent.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/24/health/herd-immunity-covid-coronavirus.html

However------"Even if Dr. Fauci is right and it will take 85 or even 90 percent herd immunity to completely stop coronavirus transmission, Dr. Lipsitch said, “we can still defang the virus sooner than that."

“We don’t have to have zero transmission in order to have a decent society. We have lots of diseases, like flu, transmitting all the time, and we don’t shut down society for that. If we can vaccinate almost all the people who are most at risk of severe outcomes, then this would become a milder disease.”

I still contend, that once we have vessels with large numbers of crew and guests on board return, with no cataclysmic on board event having taken place, then investor confidence (as well as guest confidence) will return.

I chuckle at the suggestion the federal government should pick up the tab for the cruise industry economic struggles in attempting to get cruising under control, in order to satisfy society at large concerns over the pandemic. Very few of my friends cruise, particularly as much as I used to. I can see them now bristle at the idea they are going to have to get their and other taxpayer wallets out to assure of my future "Bon Voyages".

We've been out and about alot lately...making up for lost time I suppose...signs about wearing masks are still up all over, and to say that they remain unenforced is an understatement...Couple of times we didn't bother to wear em, and I gotta admit...it feels weird.....shows you can get used to anything. Besides, I'm not holding my breath over that "herd immunity" thing either....clear to me there's whole areas of the country that won't even get close to 70%.