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33 minutes ago, Ragdollbd said:

Ambassador Bridge to Detroit, MI.  They ask if we have been vaccinated every time we cross

Much obliged..thanks.

7 minutes ago, mom says said:

Look at her location, under her user name. Plain as day.

Well, would you look at that...much obliged.

22 hours ago, Ragdollbd said:

 I live in a border city.  Right now you can't legally cross into USA unless you are vaccinated.

May I ask what border crossing you are referring to?

19 minutes ago, lx200gps said:

What's the question?

Disembark at Port Everglades without any problem??

We apparently can land cross and vax requirements are lifted for most cruises. So if you can board the ship in Port Everglades, I guess you can return and disembark at Port Everglades without problem. I know it sounds like a ridiculous question, but there's alot of ridiculous stuff.

On 8/11/2022 at 5:00 PM, Rob-Bob said:

This really makes no sense.  Non vaccinated needs a test.  Vaccinated does not need a test.  I really need someone to explain this to me.

There is no logical explanation..you probably already know that..

On 3/1/2022 at 4:14 PM, dickinson said:

I got off the Regal on Saturday.  Was on for two weeks.  Some people ignored the guidelines and no one said anything... even if the CD was talking directly to them.  In the theater there were those announcements about sip and cover.  Some people not wearing masks were not even eating or drinking anything.  Sadly, some people are too self-centered and feel they are above the rules.  Doesn't matter if you agree or. disagree with the rules, they were the rules that you said you would follow.  

I'm sorry but this sounds ridiculous...sip and cover...etc. Time to let go of the self centered judgment nonsense. 

We will not be taking any of the covid shots required to cruise. Have no idea how many cruises we've done.. 40 plus, possibly 50. Nine of our family and or friends in similar position. So that's 11 of us in my little social circle. Kind of makes me wonder what the impact of folks like ourselves who are barred from travel, will have or is having. 

On 10/16/2021 at 10:58 PM, AnyMajorCruiseDude said:

Thanks for complying with the "rules" even when you don't necessarily agree.  I was told on the last cruise we were on in September that they were making more stringent rules as it was difficult to enforce protocols with some, so that more people would comply with what was considered acceptable.  There are always those that test the limits and it is difficult for crew to enforce without fear of retaliation.  By increasing the bar, it is easier to ask for "minimal" compliance.  They are just trying to keep their jobs and stay in business.  The vast majority on our cruise were totally compliant, but the few who weren't put everyone at risk.  

Put everyone at risk for what? Isn't that why you were all vaccinated? 

1 hour ago, Travelicious said:

I tried to Google about it before asking, but upon reading your response I added "December 31, 2021."  That yielded the link below, which is to the CDC website.  Looks like PCR testing was under an Emergency Use Authorization

 

Lab Alert: Changes to CDC RT-PCR for SARS-CoV-2 Testing

You didn't know the PCR tests were under EUA as well? Interesting to check out recent acquisition by certain people, of Mologic, a UK based diagnostics company. Interesting if nothing else.

12 minutes ago, kirtihk said:

It is already 1.5 years “turning around not any time soon”. So, another 1.5 years like that is not even any time soon, it is … I even cannot find a proper phrase for it.  Simply adapt to what? Masks, “social dancing”, daily tests”, constant changes to “protocols” (it is a really funny word for stress free event that a cruise is supposed to be), and alike during vacations? That’s not an enjoyment. Yes, one may adapt in a regular life (people managed to live even in concentration camps).  However, adapting to what’s going on currently on cruises is not possible (some might not to care if they retired, for example, but that is a different  topic).

I believe that until this testing stops... nothing will change.

10 minutes ago, GettotheSun said:

Back to the original post.  Just get a second dose of Pfizer or Moderna, after your original shot of AZ.

 

Quebec is already offering 3rd doses, and I'm sure the other provinces will follow suit.

 

Pfizer has already posted a study suggesting that a 3rd dose is superior protection against the Delta Variant

Oh my.....

5 minutes ago, MsTabbyKats said:

I have an 11/2021 and a 2/2022 booked.

 

I read feedback from passengers who have sailed...and based on what they've said, I'm not too sure if I want to sail until Covid is a thing of the past.  One thing, masks required in ports....nope, not for me.

 

Yesterday I had "a scratchy throat" so I immediatly had a (negative) covid test.  As a rule, I am not a germophobe or a hypochondriac.  But, this uncertaintly of what's gonna happen or what the rules will be at the time of the cruise.....is cruising worth the worry?  Truth be told....I don't even look at cruising as the fun it used to be.  Based on the price increase it's not "the almost giveaway" vacation anymore.

I'm probably not supposed to say this but have you considered the notion that until well people stop getting tested, that this will not change?

5 minutes ago, gardening_guy said:

I cant find any science that says mixing the vaccines doesnt work.  As a matter of fact some of these mixes have been proven to give better efficacy.  I guess its a wait and see.  I may cancel the US cruise and just go on the the European one over this, but agreed that its not the end of the world.  I'll go where ever its easier and more reliable.  There are plenty of options.

You must excuse my science sarcasm. But definitely meant the normal normal comment. 

8 minutes ago, TashaB said:

Interesting that Quebec are offering a third dose for those who had the mixed.

 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/quebec-third-dose-covid-vaccine-travel-1.6117954

Well, it's all about the science, as noted by experts, so I guess...... whatever. Love NCL and others and look forward to when things get back to normal......I mean normal normal. 

Dear cruise lines,

While I can certainly appreciate your need to do what it takes to get back to business...and hence the enormous challenges you're facing...you can be sure that there are many former cruisers who will not take these injections for a myriad of valid reasons.

When and if the insanity stops.....they will be on board. I hope you have a few forward thinking people working in the ivory towers who truly have the ability to listen to many opinions and engage in discussion that is productive, not destructive. 

 Any percentage numbers vaccinated or not wouldn't stop me from boarding a ship. However, knowing people will be automatically deviating around me... because they believe I'm just a ball of virus coming towards them....now that I would have to say no to. 

38 minutes ago, njhorseman said:

That's not brainwashing, it's just totally inappropriate behavior, which you could have experienced almost every day of your life if you chose to pay attention to it. Someone asking you if you've gained weight, someone asking if you are OK because you look like you suddenly lost weight, someone asking what you paid for something you bought.  What normally happens is that you choose not to pay attention to it and dismiss the person in your mind with  "none of your business". 

No. A neighbor that you barely know doesn't call you up to see if you've gained weight. We need to be looking at the big picture of what's going on. Enough of being gullible and naive and believing all the crap people have been fed.

1 hour ago, njhorseman said:

Brainwashing? Tell that to the families and friends of the 3.5 million people who have died due to COVID-19, including 590,000 Americans and 25,000 Canadians . I have a half dozen friends who went to their graves prematurely thanks to what you attribute to brainwashing and hysteria.

 

Unfortunately we've all had to miss family events both happy and sad. Births and birthday parties. Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, Easter and Passover (I have a religiously diverse family.).  Funerals and memorial services.  But we swallow hard and accept that knowing that in the end it's better for us personally and for society as a whole. And in the past month we've started to get back together again as all the adults in our extended family have bee fully vaccinated. With just a little more patience you'll get there too.

Yes, as a retired nurse, to use the word brainwashing doesn't come easy. I'm aware that people have died. But something just isn't right in the big picture here. I know plenty about death and dying. I mean no disrespect. People have died of all kinds of illness, disease, accidents, etc.

Just ten minutes ago, my daughter in Vancouver had a neighbor call her up, someone she barely knows, and ask her if she's been vaccinated and essentially began to interrogate her. That is not ok!!! That is someone who has been brainwashed into thinking she has a right to tell a neighbor that she needs to get an injection... absolutely insane.

30 minutes ago, njhorseman said:

I doubt it. The legislation just passed expires the earlier of the date Canada no longer prohibits large cruise ships or March 22, 2022.

There's more to this legislation than a PVSA waiver. Out of necessity it also has a waiver of the visa requirements for alien crewmen and I doubt that's anything Congress would want to extend.

How sad...to be missing Canadian ports. I live in Nova Scotia...land of... applying to the government for permission to travel 200 km away from Halifax to be with your daughter when she gives birth...the hysteria and sorry, I really have no other word that seems appropriate...but brainwashing continues because people are accepting this as ok.

18 hours ago, Diane67B said:

My sister and I are booked on the Encore, leaving Miami on January 16th 2022.  We both only want to go on a fully vaccinated cruise. Do you think we should rebook from another port now because of Floridas vaccine passport ban, or do you think I am jumping the gun and I should wait and see what happens. I REALLY want to cruise and I am so scared that it will be canceled because it leaves from Miami. Thanks so much for any advice you can give.

Perhaps think about looking at the bigger picture of humanity rather than simply going on a cruise or not. When working during the 80's and we would get AIDS patients on the floor, there were nurses who felt nervous having them as patients and we would change patient assignments to accommodate.

I am so grateful that I didn't have the same thought process as some I worked with. 

11 hours ago, JamieLogical said:

 

No, because polio was eradicated by the time I was born and we, as a society, deemed the number of hospitalizations and deaths in a normal flu season to be at a tolerable level. Also, the level of a-symptomatic spread of the flu is much lower than COVID. Typically, if I had the flu, I would know it and I would naturally just try to self-isolate in order to not get others sick. I honestly didn't know about the value of masks to prevent spreading your illness to others prior to COVID. Dumb of me having had several surgeries and understanding that other people in the operating room wear masks to protect the patient. But I never really thought about or extrapolated out how that could be effective in the real world at preventing the spread of disease.

 

In any case, we now know that vaccinated people are highly unlikely to spread COVID, so I no longer feel a need to wear a mask to protect others from myself when it comes to COVID. I have already decided that if/when I am sick with any respiratory illness in the future, I will definitely wear a mask if I need to be out in public, in order to protect others.

When I worked as an RN in the operating room, we wore masks to help prevent bacterial contamination of our field...not viral contamination.

Oops, think I may have responded to wrong quote.

5 hours ago, Dreamcruiser2 said:

How did I know that this is your preferred source for misinformation?!?!

I am not in the least surprised by your sarcasm. Believe it or not, I understand your reaction.

49 minutes ago, harkinmr said:

You can question the method but the motives are simple and laudable: To address vaccine hesitancy in his state and, as the Governor says, to save lives and achieve herd immunity for his state and the country.  
 

“I know that some may say, ‘DeWine, you’re crazy!’ ” Mr. DeWine said on Twitter. “‘This million-dollar drawing idea of yours is a waste of money.’ But truly, the real waste at this point in the pandemic — when the vaccine is readily available to anyone who wants it — is a life lost to COVID-19.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/12/us/ohio-lottery-coronavirus-vaccine.html

 

 

 

 

Whether interventions end up being part of the solutions or not, don't you think the ethics of implementing interventions would be important. If we negate that, aren't we at risk of greater ills, as human beings? 

https://www.foxnews.com/us/ohio-gov-mike-dewine-lottery-vaccinated-citizens

I rest my case for whatever.