Lady Chew
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Oh, that's right, you had earlier mentioned your military eligibility!! Very glad you got your shot ... and very jealous! Our county was really ramping things up, and then the state said, uh, no, now you have to use our registration system, and that's really screwed everything. We're also checking the pharmacies (CVS, etc) but nothing popping yet. We're still trying to be patient ... but the mess with the state system is almost the last straw!
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4 hours ago, markeb said:
Quick detour from technical discussions about developing vaccines...
As I was wrapping an appointment on Monday, I made a comment about "now if I can only figure out how the vaccines are working around here". The reply from the nurse was "do you want to get the vaccine?".
Turns out, they had just been allowed to start directly scheduling their patients (we're all in the high risk categories), and the first appointments were on Wednesday. Those were filled by the time she got to the computer, but they had 10:00 this morning...
First dose Pfizer this morning. One of the few bright spots in what's been over 12 months of medical hades. Shocked and amazed. So far no real effects. The arm was heavy for part of the day, but no redness or swelling, no headache, etc.
Sometimes things just work when you least expect it.
Where did you get your shot? We were told that physician/hospital practices would no longer be able to give the vaccine. And the Virginia registration system has been a complete failure. We are very frustrated. 1B, both of us.
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Virginia may have collapsed 1b&c together, but they're still on over 75. We've filled out some online forms with the county, hospital system, & physicians office, but still cant get appointments. (We're both 1c)
On the other hand, my daughter lives in a residential care facility in Pennsylvania, and she just received her second shot of Pfizer this morning. I've been told she had no side effects with either shot.
We are anxious to get our own vaccs so we can finally get so see her. It's been over a year.
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I also use a battery operated toothbrush to travel
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You're definitely not alone!! We always cruise from the end of January, sometimes for 3 weeks, sometimes for more (in 2019, we left FLL on a world cruise, thank goodness we didn't wait until 2020!) ... we put Christmas away, give the house a thorough cleaning, and start packing!
We hate the cold weather (anything under 50 degrees, actually) and we know we're going to have a hard time as January passes by. We just gotta keep thinking about our cruise in 2022 and hope that will be enough to get us through!
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Sorry for your loss ...
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9 hours ago, TeeRick said:
Or a branding iron?
Remember the scar we all carried from childhood on our arms from the smallpox vaccine? Or are you too young for that?
I remember there were a few times we had to prove to school authorities we had had the vaccination by simply showing the scar, since it was so distinctive. However, my mother did not want her children to have those big scars, so she had ours injected on the underside of our arms. When I was in the fifth grade with a broken arm and a cast almost up to my shoulder, I couldn't show the scar. They didn't believe I had the scar, I asked them to bring in my two younger siblings to show their scars. Of course now, many years later, the scar is long gone.
Back to our regularly scheduled program ...
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12 hours ago, Ride-The-Waves said:
Vaccination against COVID-19 or its latest strain will be a requirement to cruise. Those who don't have a vaccination, now called "zombies," will not be permitted on board. Period! And its possible that, like "common" flu, annual vaccination updates will be required. Countries to they today and it was prevalent around the world post WWII - requiring proof of selected prophylaxis to enter.
11 hours ago, KnowTheScore said:The zombies are the unhealthy people riddled with illnesses that they cough and sneeze all over everyone else. They all trot off for their annual flu vaccines yet still sit there coughing and spluttering all day long. Perhaps we should be quarantining those people and putting them off the ship?
Folks, name calling doesn't help. And, if you want to ignore someone, then do so. Just stop talking about him/her and what they're posting.
We are hoping to be vaccinated by spring, so we can start traveling again late summer.
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2 hours ago, cruizergal70 said:
A ship is not a home away from home. It's a means of transportation.
If you take long cruises, as many of us do, the ship does indeed become a home away from home, albeit a temporary one.
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I for one find these occasional history lessons very interesting, and appreciate them very much!
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I think that there will be many American cruisers who will push back on any restrictions, at least at the start. I just hope the cruise lines will be forceful about enforcement.
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I agree with you - it seems like I am washing my hands and/or using hand sanitizer every 30 minutes, sometimes less!, so I don't wear my rings to keep the gunk out.
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I know ... that song is now stuck in my head for a while!
We love seeing places we've been on our travels.
Looking forward to the next episode.
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I would never pay for a subscription to Food & Wine, but I have renewed it a few times through HAL. I don't pay a lot of attention to the timing, but when I've realized I haven't seen an issue in a few months, I've gone into my Mariner account and renewed. I think I've done this 3 or 4 times in the last 5 years ...
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We have learned that if the magnets won't stay on the walls, you can put them on the ceiling. If you have a connecting door, you can put them around the door jamb. We also had some shelves that have metal sides or fronts that will take a magnet.
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Agree! This was my favorite space to sit in the sun & read, for hours & hours, albeit a little (!) windy at times. We were very disappointed & a little irritated when we boarded the Silhouette in February and learned it was now off limits.
But they need people to fill the suites, and I guess the suitees need their perks. Why those perks need to be in public areas of the ship, I don't know. We have occasionally booked suites, but we mostly want them for the extra space, larger balcony, included beverages, stuff like that.
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57 minutes ago, rkacruiser said:
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Covid-19 may upset the situation where some very long time world cruisers believe that they have "entitlements" that we newbies lacked. Covid-19 may cause a different generation of world cruisers to begin to sail whose expectations will be different than those of the recent past.
Many long time world cruisers already have entitlements, and don't think newbies should share them in any way. It didn't take Covid-19 to make that happen!
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1 hour ago, KirkNC said:
I am fine if they stopped pillow gifts entirely but we have used the umbrellas and small suitcases to put stuff we buy on the trip. No way are you getting a reduced fare if they go away.
Another item I would add is HAL sponsored nights off the ship like what they did on the 2019 WC in Amsterdam at the Rijks Museum. Azamara and Oceania do one of these nights for each WC segment.
That was an incredible evening, wasn't it?? I think it would be wonderful if they could do more of those ...
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2 hours ago, KirkNC said:
More overnights
Some two night stays
more unique ports, not repeats from every few years, places regular cruises don't go
This ...
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My friend & I were supposed to be sailing out of Baltimore today on Grandeur. Sigh ...
But we're booked for basically the same cruise next year, on Enchantment.
(And another cruise on HAL in February, with the Misters ... )
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4 hours ago, Suitcasefull said:
Wear earrings most days but not pierced. Fun finds at estate sales, often sterling or very good quality costume if people just throw all gran's earrings in a box. On trips, take only ones that wouldn't break my heart to lose, usually cheap ones from wherever, but classics like hoops or simple dangles. Generally keep those in carry-on so don't have to think about that when packing. Earrings are often something I buy on a trip to remind me of different places, museums, etc. (seaglass from Hawaii and NE; windows from Pearl Harbor; wings from Milwaukee MOA)
What are "windows" from Pearl Harbor??
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I wear mine to fly, for deck walking (I try to walk 4 miles on sea days), and in the gym (if I can't get outside for deck walking I'll hop on the treadmill or elliptical)
I might wear them in ports, but I have a pair of waterproof walking sandals and a good pair of walking shoes. Sometimes I bring both, sometimes neither ... depends on what we're doing. Even in the Caribbean.
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The poster was not comparing thalidomide to a vaccine, but was using it as an example of medicine gone wrong.
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11 hours ago, TeeRick said:
Well I knew that you would get it!😀
Hey, I'm pretty sure a few others of us got it!! 😇
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Are vaccines the light at the end of the tunnel?
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They're still making excuses for the non-functioning web registration system here in Virginia. Govt in Richmond says one thing, county says another, Congressional rep says a third. What a joke. Or it would be a joke if this whole situation wasn't so serious.
BUT - I've been checking CVS/etc several times a day, and today while I was on, appointments opened up! So we're scheduled for Monday, with follow up scheduled in 4 weeks. But two different pharmacies! At least neither of them is very far away.
Color us relieved!