I learned of quarantine passengers by accident

But at least we can still cruise

Agree with Aunt Pinkie, covid is here and you cannot avoid it.

Jus want to say quarantined does not always mean that any or all the passengers in a cabin tested positive for Covid during the cruise. Prior to Covid passengers would get restricted to their cabin for showing signs of noro or the flu.

With suspected Covid cases most cruise lines will confine your booking to the cabin if they trace a confirmed case to anybody listed there as a close contact. Once on board medical reads a positive test they do tend to move you from your booked cabin to a "Red Zone" one with it's special air filters and easier accessibility for the medical staff.

Plus it clearly isn't in the best interests of the cruise lines bottom line to publicize ANY actual numbers. Clearly they report the numbers to the CDC...which now color codes ships infection rates...last time I looked. seemed like 99% of them were all color coded the same..take a guess what it was.....

BTW, (and OT)...glad the mods are doing their job...nuff said.....other than THANKS!

Problem with contract tracing is that it is very slow and labour intensive if you follow up with notifications. Where most ships are already short staffed it is not hard to do the math and see why tracing does not exist. And yes they have to consider all the privacy of information laws and regs around disclosure. Bit of a legal minefield that one.

While it might be a good idea to know if you were a close contact, depending on how NCL handled it, it could be a HIPPA violation, hence why they wouldn't be able to say anything.

That's why, in the beginning, they had people wearing Tracelets, in order to conduct Contact Tracing and notify people that way.

Not surprised! Everyone has probably been exposed at least once to the original or a varient. The virus is now spred so much, it is as common as any seasonal flu. Some of us will get it and some of us won't. The vaccines are designed to make the sypmtoms less leathal. I agree it would be nice to know while on the ship, but I doubt the information will be forthcoming by any cruise line.

P.S. Sorry for any misspellings. My spell checker isn't operating at the moment.