Mammasan

On 3/7/2024 at 10:05 PM, Elvis1209 said:

You have 4 tux's?

You are my new hero!!!!!

 

Elvis

You can pretty much tell the age of someone by the way they dress nowadays.  Is fun to dress up once in a while, but best not to overdo it.

I am having problems locating roll call for the Equinox April 11 sailing.  Anyone else experiencing this?  

3 minutes ago, elwood_98034 said:

What people don't understand is that there is limited medical care capacity. Where I work we normally run at 101% productivity. I fear that there are already patients not getting the care that they would normally get. People assume that if they get sick and go to a hospital they will get looked after as per normal. That is changing very quickly. During Katrina some workers just gave up, and went home to save their own lives, and look after their families. Drop a few cruise ships full of suspected infected into the middle of somewhere like Seattle where the healthcare systems are already overloaded, and workers are vanishing, and hard, and even brutal decisions are going to be made.

I just got a text from a friend who works at an even bigger hospital to mine where I used to work. She describes it as a 'Sh it storm.'

You are so right!!!  Why some cannot seem to understand the magnitude of this onslaught is beyond me.  Certainly, this virus probably will infect a huge number of people over time, but we need to try to curb the spread of it now, so it won't overwhelm medical facilities.

41 minutes ago, Greenpea2 said:

Why should anyone quarantine themselves after a cruise if there has been no illness attributed to it? 

Just now, Georgia_Peaches said:

I would not advocate for foreign travel nor do I have plans for foreign travel. So I respectfully disagree. I could easily expose someone unwittingly by doing the daily things I described. 

It is just that cruise ships tend to be petri dishes for pathogens, such as the Noro virus that pops up on cruise ships quite frequently.  Cruise ship passengers are in close proximity to many other passengers for several days to a few weeks, and at this time, to some who may be carrying the disease.  Medical experts suggest that at this time, everyone should limit their exposure to others, whether in stores, crowds, hospitals, cruise ships, planes, etc., etc.  This behavior can help stop the spread of Covid-19 and the number of deaths from contracting the disease.

52 minutes ago, Georgia_Peaches said:

It is my belief that a large part of the world's population will become exposed one way or another.  Avoiding a cruise ship isn't going to stop that.  I have likely already been exposed from my line of work or when I went to the grocery store, and church on Sunday...oh and I pumped gas.  Who knows how many infected people touched the pump ahead of me.  I washed my hands though and tried to keep my hands off my face.  Maybe I should self isolate just in case.

Your post is judgmental and lacks substance for the greater good...in my opinion.

The only problems with your reasoning is that you might end up being quarantined somewhere in Europe or somewhere else with the difficulty of finding a way home now that Trump has issued his travel restriction edict.  Plus, if you are not careful and contract the virus, you easily could pass it on to an older person or one who has compromised immunity due to an underlying condition.

That is if my husband has his say we wont be coming back.

We did the Getaway last month. Had a great time Enjoyed everything.

 

Jumped on the chance to get an aft cabin and a taste of the "suite life". It was anything but sweet from start to finish!

 

As you begin to read through this you may feel I am being a bit picky. As these things began to transpire we only found them a bit irritating and not what we expected, however as the issues just kept building I decided to TRY to keep track of them.

 

It began with the propulsion issue. That actually didnt bother us. What bothered us was getting to the pier where the passengers had actually been disembarked the day before and finding a line of passengers waiting to get in that was so long it wrapped around the building. There was no side line for suite passengers. After standing in this line for about 20 minutes and it still not moving I went back to the front of the line and asked if there was another line for Priority Embarkation. He said usually there is but today we are only making a line for handicapped passengers. After waiting for almost 45 minutes they began letting us in. Once finally inside they did have priority lines. However the line again was not moving. Once we got to check in they apologized and said since this was the first day back from overseas they have lots of new employees and also they are having glitches with the system. We stood at the desk over 25 minutes and they were never able to key in our credit card despite having over 8 employees at one time looking at the terminal. We are still smiling at this point and saying its ok and we understand...really we did.

 

Now off to begin the "suite life" We were led to a small area for suite passengers. There was a buffet table set up with a table cloth and nothing on it. Did we really need anything? Probably not but I actually would have appreciated just a bottle of water but that was not available nor possible as they said they could give us nothing as the health inspectors were still aboard....sigh...We stayed in this room until almost noon.

 

Then came our lunch at Cagneys.........To be continued......

Just a suggestion for you and other passengers on cruise ships. Do not arrive too early to check in and board. It is so much easier to arrive once the original crowd disappears, which it always does.