I’m vaccinated and double boosted and hope to get the new booster before my mid October cruise. I’ve been careful and lucky not to have had Covid yet. I have several friends with long Covid. Even though most vaccinated have mild symptoms now, the hospitalizations are up again and deaths are now up to nearly 500 a day. Mostly unvaccinated, which makes me wonder how often ships will be forced skip scheduled ports for medical emergencies. With more unvaccinated there are more likely to have those with more severe symptoms that can’t be treated on board. I read on here from those unvaccinated that have had Covid several times and not had severe disease but there are many that are not that lucky. I am anxious to cruise again but don’t want to bring Covid home to my family. My first cruise is to Bermuda and as of now all over 11 have to be vaccinated and all tested. I can understand that small island countries need the tourism but don’t want to raise their Covid rates and cause illness and death to their citizens.
I understand the sentiment of wanting to get back to normal but I believe it it’s a new normal we have to live with.