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1 hour ago, stevenr597 said:

I cannot see the cruise industry permitting people to travel on one of their ships until we have an safe and effective Coronavirus Vaccine.  I do feel that it will be mandatory, until we have found that the virus is no longer a threat, which will be well into next year.  Although one can argue that other members may be effective, the threat of a law suit would be too great for a cruise line to risk.  In addition, signing a waiver against filing a suit would not be feasible. 

You are right, “safe and effective” ! But “safe and effective” will take years to determine that! That will bankrupt the cruise and travel industry . And besides a normal healthy person who just needs to vaccine to travel for leisure reasons will be the very very last ones to get the vaccine. How could you decide to make the Covid vaccine mandatory but not the Flu Vaccine??? The law suit will come from them making it mandatory to take Covid vaccine. It will be not be proven “safe and effective” for years. 

Unless they make the Flu vaccine mandatory, (Currently voluntary) which kills up to 62,000 (CDC) people annually in the Us and  650,000 (WHO) Globally, demanding that a Covid 19 vaccine would be mandatory to be the only way to cruise is ridiculous! Also so lets just ignore that 600,000 people world wide die from Hepatitis and there has never been a call to get immunized to be able to cruise! Immunizations and world wide shut downs have never happened before why would this be required now! Getting a vaccine with no long term data is ridiculous just to say oh its ok for you to travel! There Will be no proof you will not contract the disease.  The Flu should scare you more but no one wears masks or does social distancing during the high Flu season! Let’s get real.