It did not surprise us that Majestic had an increase in numbers of covid. We got off Majestic last month and we had at least 100 cases then. Thankfully we never got covid and wore our masks pretty regularly, plus we were fully vaccinated with both boosters. We saw that room stewards wore their masks, but in the buffet quite a few of the waiters (getting drinks, etc) did not and a lot of the people serving and cooking the food were not wearing masks. We saw quite a few passengers not wearing masks and coughing without covering mouths, etc. They had signs everywhere to wear masks indoors, and in elevators but a lot of people didn't and when someone said something to them there was a lot of ignoring and commenting under their breath. IF a cruise line is going to say something is mandatory, then they should be having staff making sure of that, otherwise don't have signs saying mandatory. 6 people per elevator signs but quite a few people ran in anyway. I did hear staff saying that they did not want to cause trouble by telling passengers about the masks, social distancing. In the main DR, the tables were not socially distanced either; lines in venues still had people right next to each other, sometimes, without masks. Some people we knew that had covid, said their cases were very mild and they had to isolate.
I know we have to live with the virus, but it is hard to figure out the happy medium with rules regarding testing, masks, social distancing. If they want to reduce the numbers and decide masks have to be worn, maintain social distancing, etc. then factor in the acceptance of testing or no testing, accepting unvaccinated passengers, then where do we go from there?
We were just glad to get out and travel again. On our cruise we had to test 3 days prior because our cruise was longer than the 16 days, and then we tested again at least two more times required by Princess before Hawaii and Tahiti.