Joe817 Posted March 20, 2020 #51 Share Posted March 20, 2020 13 minutes ago, Saint Greg said: I haven’t seen any parties. New Orleans is dead. Bourbon street was shut down on Sunday. All bars in the state are closed. Restaurants are only open for delivery and carryout. Radio station people are broadcasting from their homes. ahttps://www.earthcam.com/usa/louisiana/neworleans/bourbonstreet/?cam=bourbonstreet Just about the same here in Texas. All over the state. I still go out to forage for. essentials. Here in Arlington, I can see a slow...very slow returning to sanity. Store shelves are being restocked. Still lot's of empty shelves. But not as empty as last week. It will take weeks,, if not months to return to normalcy. That's to be expected. Bars are all closed. Restaurants are all closed, except for order on line for delivery and carry out. Our governor just declared today that people can order mixed drinks for delivery. Wow. What a concept. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Host Carolyn Posted March 20, 2020 #52 Share Posted March 20, 2020 Ordering mixed drinks to go here as well in NC. 😁 Just not designer, Alchemy Bar type drinks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Saint Greg Posted March 20, 2020 #53 Share Posted March 20, 2020 (edited) 24 minutes ago, Joe817 said: Just about the same here in Texas. All over the state. I still go out to forage for. essentials. Here in Arlington, I can see a slow...very slow returning to sanity. Store shelves are being restocked. Still lot's of empty shelves. But not as empty as last week. It will take weeks,, if not months to return to normalcy. That's to be expected. Bars are all closed. Restaurants are all closed, except for order on line for delivery and carry out. Our governor just declared today that people can order mixed drinks for delivery. Wow. What a concept. I have only been in a store once since the madness started. Just went in the dollar general to pickup some coffee. The lady in front of me had cases of water stacked over her head. The guy behind me had a 64 pack of toilet paper under each arm. I just had a 12 oz bag of coffee. I looked around and thought...should I be buying more stuff? Nah. I just go to work and come home. The outdoor shopping mall by my work is dead. All of the stores are closed. Movie theater even pulled the posters out of the cases. They have hand sanitizer dispensers on every corner. I have been picking up food to take home this week. I feel bad for the restaurant owners. Edited March 20, 2020 by Saint Greg 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Host Carolyn Posted March 20, 2020 #54 Share Posted March 20, 2020 (edited) ****** We will now resume out regular programming, i.e. the offer to use Carnival ships as temporary hospitals ****** Edited March 20, 2020 by Host Carolyn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpdog42 Posted March 20, 2020 #55 Share Posted March 20, 2020 9 hours ago, flyguyjake said: Wonder if Carnival has offered this to other countries? Why should they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Saint Greg Posted March 20, 2020 #56 Share Posted March 20, 2020 3 minutes ago, mpdog42 said: Why should they? They do own an Italian cruise line. Probably every captain they have is from Italy. Italy is in bad shape right now. I could see it there. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpdog42 Posted March 20, 2020 #57 Share Posted March 20, 2020 4 minutes ago, Saint Greg said: They do own an Italian cruise line. Probably every captain they have is from Italy. Italy is in bad shape right now. I could see it there. True! I was referring to Carnival the brand, not the corp....If all the Costa ships want to return to help the Italian people ...I say All the best,but Carnival needs to stay to help out in North America (US and Canada) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare jimbo5544 Posted March 20, 2020 #58 Share Posted March 20, 2020 I am not sure the offer was for CCL ships only, in fact the wording implies they are not. I have no idea how feasible they could be assisting. After Katrina when Micky offered up assistance the first time, it was workers, this would be substantially more complex. Listening to the mayor in Gotham earlier, they needed every ship in every fleet. We are in strange times.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare jimbo5544 Posted March 20, 2020 #59 Share Posted March 20, 2020 56 minutes ago, Saint Greg said: They do own an Italian cruise line. Probably every captain they have is from Italy. Italy is in bad shape right now. I could see it there. Beyond horrible conditions. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare ontheweb Posted March 20, 2020 #60 Share Posted March 20, 2020 10 hours ago, Host Carolyn said: ****** We will now resume out regular programming, i.e. the offer to use Carnival ships as temporary hospitals ****** Thank you. But here's a question I have not seen asked about this. Where will the crews of these ships go? Obviously a ship converted to a hospital will need medical personnel instead of the normal crew. Other than those who prepare the food, who would be needed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joebucks Posted March 20, 2020 #61 Share Posted March 20, 2020 I wonder if they are going to use tablecloths or continue the cutbacks? On a more serious note, I wonder how many more people this scares away from cruising because of fears from the ships being previously used to house "sick people" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pe4all Posted March 20, 2020 #62 Share Posted March 20, 2020 I had mentioned the idea of using cruise ships as hospital ships to my dh a week or 2 ago as they were sitting idle. I think I remember cruise ships being used during an Olympics to house athletes. So glad CCL is stepping up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drsel Posted March 20, 2020 #63 Share Posted March 20, 2020 I wonder if they are going to use tablecloths or continue the cutbacks? On a more serious note, I wonder how many more people this scares away from cruising because of fears from the ships being previously used to house "sick people"I think they will cut back on a lot of things after this crisis because of the huge losses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare MistyRo76 Posted March 20, 2020 #64 Share Posted March 20, 2020 2 hours ago, ontheweb said: Thank you. But here's a question I have not seen asked about this. Where will the crews of these ships go? Obviously a ship converted to a hospital will need medical personnel instead of the normal crew. Other than those who prepare the food, who would be needed? I would guess some of the ships employees may be able to remain employed and working on the ship. They will still need housekeeping help. I assume food will be provided onboard. So they'll need cooks and servers (maybe only delivering to cabins). ship medical staff may be asked to assist. In my opinion, any jobs that can be saved during this time is a great thing! I've also heard that Carnival made this offer only asking that they be reimbursed for their costs during the time period this is enacted which I assume would include any salaries for personnel who remain on the ship to assist. Just speculation but it makes sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigdog1958 Posted March 20, 2020 #65 Share Posted March 20, 2020 19 hours ago, Wanna_Cruize said: Well, the good news is the newer testing kits and procedures get results MUCH faster, so they should (hopefully) only allow people on the ship who have a negative test result. What, the offer is to house sick people on the ship if hospitals become overwhelmed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drsel Posted March 20, 2020 #66 Share Posted March 20, 2020 It's a good offer on the part of Carnival Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanmarcosman Posted March 20, 2020 Author #67 Share Posted March 20, 2020 24 minutes ago, bigdog1958 said: What, the offer is to house sick people on the ship if hospitals become overwhelmed. For now at least the offer is for the non- COVID - 19 exposed who require hospitalization. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare jimbo5544 Posted March 20, 2020 #68 Share Posted March 20, 2020 13 minutes ago, sanmarcosman said: For now at least the offer is for the non- COVID - 19 exposed who require hospitalization. Doubt that will change for the obvious reasons 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare jimbo5544 Posted March 20, 2020 #69 Share Posted March 20, 2020 27 minutes ago, drsel said: It's a good offer on the part of Carnival Despite some posts to the contrary, it really is, kudos to the mgt team 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanmarcosman Posted March 20, 2020 Author #70 Share Posted March 20, 2020 21 minutes ago, jimbo5544 said: Doubt that will change for the obvious reasons The world is in uncharted territory and anything is possible for this very obvious fact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare jimbo5544 Posted March 20, 2020 #71 Share Posted March 20, 2020 1 minute ago, sanmarcosman said: The world is in uncharted territory and anything is possible for this very obvious fact. Well it sure is not boring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chipmaster Posted March 20, 2020 #72 Share Posted March 20, 2020 On 3/19/2020 at 9:24 AM, sanmarcosman said: Mickey Arison has agreed to assign Carnival ships as facilities to house people during the current crisis if needed. Darn, I'm going to buy a few shares of CCL and remember this next time I noodle RCCL or Disney versus one of the CCL lines, beyond Kudos, what a great thing for the company.. The only ? why did Diamond really have so much x-transmission needs to be mitigated before they use the ships Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drsel Posted March 20, 2020 #73 Share Posted March 20, 2020 Wait for it to bottom out.The crisis is not yet over Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rin1 Posted March 20, 2020 #74 Share Posted March 20, 2020 It's a good offer and a pretty necessary offer. Carnival was very slow to respond to the crisis so they have some serious PR points to make up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Organized Chaos Posted March 20, 2020 #75 Share Posted March 20, 2020 (edited) It's a very nice gesture by Carnival, but if they weren't currently shut down and were operating as usual, how generous would they have been? Let's not forget that, if the government takes them up on their offer, Carnival will be generously compensated. Government contracts, which is essentially what it would amount to, are almost always quite lucrative. Edited March 20, 2020 by Organized Chaos 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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