Royal Caribbean sailing Sept 16?

[rimmit]

Cruises will not sail Sept 16th out of the US.  Just not happening.

 

Nothing will have changed between now and then that will makes cruising any safer.  Unless the fundamental risk of Covid is altered somehow (vaccine, miracle drug, mutates to become significantly less virulent) the risk of an onboard outbreak is only higher now than it was back in Mar when cruises were suspended.  Given the CDC viewed cruising as a danger before this was a total raging pandemic on every continent,  I don’t believe the actions Americans are taking now is gonna convince the CDC to allow Cruises from the US anytime soon.

[PhillyFan33579]

59 minutes ago, BND said:

HIV and Covid are completely different viruses as has been point out either on this thread or another one.  One is blood borne, one is airborne and testing so far as has gone great.  People are showing immune responses.  

How a virus is transmitted is irrelevant. It is how a person’s immune system reacts to fight a virus that is relevant. A successful vaccine is able to get someone’s immune system to successfully identify and replicate attacking a harmful virus. 

[Biker19]

5 hours ago, rimmit said:

the risk of an onboard outbreak is only higher now than it was back in Mar when cruises were suspended.  

Why?

[rimmit]

2 minutes ago, Biker19 said:

Why?

Back in Feb and Mar the number of people infected worldwide was significantly lower.  The chances of someone with Covid boarding a ship are now notably higher.  
 

While they can stick every protocol in the book to help mitigate this issue,  nursing homes on land and prisons are still having outbreaks.   Any efforts at mitigation (social distancing and masks) have only been met with pushback by the general public.  The lack of any generalized societal effort to stop this in the US is not making it any easier for the Cruise ships to sail.
 

There are just way more people with Covid now, and any mitigation efforts the cruise lines put in place will likely either not be followed or be inadequate compared to just the sheer number of people that will likely board with Covid.  Even with testing many test negative at the beginning of their illness yet still have it so even testing people prior to boarding will not stop it. There is just no good way to get cruise ships going at this time.

[CAPECODLINDA]

Do you realize how many vials of THE VACCINE will be needed?  MILLIONS, BILLIONS AND ZILLIONS!!!  Each flu season brings NEW VACCINE since new flu strands "arrive each year"- I Hope the scientists are PLANNING AHEAD for this mutating covid virus!!!  Cruise lines can't depend on " vaccine " to "go back to work."  Passengers can't rely on a " quick fix"....