Will you have to take off your mask to get your picture taken for your cruise card?

[taglovestocruise]

18 minutes ago, clo said:

Are you sure about that? This is controlled by the Gaming Control Board so not local to Clark County. And what you describe sure isn't open here in Reno. The machines are there and they're lit up but that's it. 

Yes, I was in the Terrible Herbst Chevron car wash on Lake Mead Blvd in Summerlin on the  6th or 7th and a row of 5 or 6 machines were being played.  

[clo]

55 minutes ago, taglovestocruise said:

Yes, I was in the Terrible Herbst Chevron car wash on Lake Mead Blvd in Summerlin on the  6th or 7th and a row of 5 or 6 machines were being played.  

That's just wild. I tried googling for info but can't find anything. Looked specifically for Vegas or Reno. Nothing. And we were in a grocery story this morning and the dozen of so slots weren't open. They keep the lights on them but the message 'not in use' or some such. You may be able to tell that we're missing them 🙂 We don't call it "gambling" but rather "making our donation to the local economy." I gotta check this out some more. Thanks.

[wowzz]

I think people are missing the point. There will never be a vaccine to counter CV19, in the same way that no vaccine has been developed to counter SARS. 

Even now, there is not a vaccine that is 100% effective against influenza. 

We need to learn to live with the risk, hope that some sort of herd immunity  develops, and continue with our lives.  But, if you really want to get the disease, cram yourself into a floating petri dish with 5,000 other people, continually press together in lifts, buffets and bars, and see what happens. 

Cruising as we used to know it, is a thing of the past. 

[taglovestocruise]

9 minutes ago, clo said:

That's just wild. I tried googling for info but can't find anything. Looked specifically for Vegas or Reno. Nothing. And we were in a grocery story this morning and the dozen of so slots weren't open. They keep the lights on them but the message 'not in use' or some such. You may be able to tell that we're missing them 🙂 We don't call it "gambling" but rather "making our donation to the local economy." I gotta check this out some more. Thanks.

Funny thing about my Mother in Law. Number 1 on her get out of jail list was a trip to her hair salon.  Hers opened on last Wednesday,  Number 2 now becoming number 1 is a trip to Red Rock Casino.  She totally misses her Wednesday get a free gift for locals and a lunch at the Feast Buffet in the casino. Our turn to visit her in July, hoping the casino and buffet are open. 

[Flatbush Flyer]

18 minutes ago, wowzz said:

I think people are missing the point. There will never be a vaccine to counter CV19, in the same way that no vaccine has been developed to counter SARS. 

Even now, there is not a vaccine that is 100% effective against influenza. 

We need to learn to live with the risk, hope that some sort of herd immunity  develops, and continue with our lives.  But, if you really want to get the disease, cram yourself into a floating petri dish with 5,000 other people, continually press together in lifts, buffets and bars, and see what happens. 

Cruising as we used to know it, is a thing of the past. 

As I keep posting: the small ships with great passenger/space ratios and a cruise demographic that can afford the sure-to-be-higher fares necessitated by intentionally reduced capacity will be the success story for the immediate future.

[wowzz]

14 minutes ago, Flatbush Flyer said:

As I keep posting: the small ships with great passenger/space ratios and a cruise demographic that can afford the sure-to-be-higher fares necessitated by intentionally reduced capacity will be the success story for the immediate future.

But will anyone get insurance cover in this new age?  In the UK, you cannot cruise without insurance cover, and no new policies cover CV19. So, small ship, big ship, makes no difference. 

[Flatbush Flyer]

1 minute ago, wowzz said:

But will anyone get insurance cover in this new age?  In the UK, you cannot cruise without insurance cover, and no new policies cover CV19. So, small ship, big ship, makes no difference. 

Insurance not required in the US.

[clo]

48 minutes ago, taglovestocruise said:

Funny thing about my Mother in Law. Number 1 on her get out of jail list was a trip to her hair salon.  Hers opened on last Wednesday,  Number 2 now becoming number 1 is a trip to Red Rock Casino.  She totally misses her Wednesday get a free gift for locals and a lunch at the Feast Buffet in the casino. Our turn to visit her in July, hoping the casino and buffet are open. 

🙂 We have a couple of spots, one a small casino and one a restaurant with video poker at the bar. We've been missing them a lot. And, yes, my hair. Have an appt. on Thurs and will then go to a chef friend's place. Don't want him to see me without hot pink hair!

[wowzz]

10 minutes ago, Flatbush Flyer said:

Insurance not required in the US.

Indeed, but with everything that is going on, you'd have to be pretty stupid to take any sort of holiday without insurance cover. 

I know many Americans have private health care  - I wonder how many of those policies cover pandemics? 

[mom says]

1 hour ago, wowzz said:

I think people are missing the point. There will never be a vaccine to counter CV19

I would love to know what you know, which is apparently more than the WHO, CDC, and numerous disease centers and virology labs all over the world. Why would they all be in various stages of development, and even testing, if they thought there was no likelihood of achieving a viable vaccine?

[taglovestocruise]

1 hour ago, clo said:

🙂 We have a couple of spots, one a small casino and one a restaurant with video poker at the bar. We've been missing them a lot. And, yes, my hair. Have an appt. on Thurs and will then go to a chef friend's place. Don't want him to see me without hot pink hair!

Cheers...

 

[slidergirl]

 I'm going back to the original question.  I see things like this on another site: "if I have to wear a mask, how do I eat or drink".  Really people??????  How do health care workers eat or drink?  They take down/off their masks...  You need a photo?  Take down/off the mask.  

 

sorry if that sounds harsh.  

[clo]

4 minutes ago, taglovestocruise said:

Cheers

And to you also.!

[clo]

1 minute ago, slidergirl said:

 I'm going back to the original question.  I see things like this on another site: "if I have to wear a mask, how do I eat or drink".  Really people??????  How do health care workers eat or drink?  They take down/off their masks...  You need a photo?  Take down/off the mask.  

 

sorry if that sounds harsh.  

It's true. Wear it to the table and away from the table. And I'm making the assumption that half the tables will be removed so that will create social distancing. Not "rocket surgery." 🙂

[ldubs]

5 hours ago, clo said:

50,000 x 800 = 40,000,000 --- the population of CA.

 

So what perspective does this give you?  Assuming you quoted it in context, it is nothing more than purposely misleading headline fodder.  Who the heck would expect the entire population of any state, much less the most populous one,  to be vaccinated in one day.   I hate seeing this kind of foolish misleading nonsense when folks are trying to deal with lives in ruin.  Might as well get the news from the comedy channel.    

[clo]

5 minutes ago, ldubs said:

 

So what perspective does this give you?  Assuming you quoted it in context, it is nothing more than purposely misleading headline fodder.  Who the heck would expect the entire population of any state, much less the most populous one,  to be vaccinated in one day.   I hate seeing this kind of foolish misleading nonsense when folks are trying to deal with lives in ruin.  Might as well get the news from the comedy channel.    

I guess hyperbole is the right word. Here's the link. I think the point is that it's going to be incredibly hard and long.

 

https://abc7news.com/coronavirus-vaccine-recovery-in-california-cases/6154329/

[ldubs]

15 minutes ago, clo said:

I guess hyperbole is the right word. Here's the link. I think the point is that it's going to be incredibly hard and long.

 

https://abc7news.com/coronavirus-vaccine-recovery-in-california-cases/6154329/

 

Hyperbole?  Let's create even more fear among people who are already in crises with "hyperbole".   The quote you shared is intentionally misleading, assuming you shared it in context that is.   I don't have a need to open the link.   Hopefully this guy has nothing to do with our recovery efforts.        

 

[clo]

52 minutes ago, ldubs said:

 

Hyperbole?  Let's create even more fear among people who are already in crises with "hyperbole".   The quote you shared is intentionally misleading, assuming you shared it in context that is.   I don't have a need to open the link.   Hopefully this guy has nothing to do with our recovery efforts.        

 

 

1 hour ago, ldubs said:

Assuming you quoted it in context,

I gave you the context.

[Flatbush Flyer]

5 hours ago, wowzz said:

Indeed, but with everything that is going on, you'd have to be pretty stupid to take any sort of holiday without insurance cover. 

I know many Americans have private health care  - I wonder how many of those policies cover pandemics? 

It appears that insurance (health, travel or otherwise) in the US is understandably a bit more complex than you may realize.

In any case, it would be truly unusual for regular "private" health insurance coverage to depend on HOW you got sick.

 

Of course, travel insurance (trip interruption, delay, cancel) is a different question (which has already been discussed a million times here on CC). 

 

The bottom line is that, unless you have CFAR travel insurance, no insurer will pay a claim for you cancelling due to virus fear.

 

That's one reason why, if you book a cruise now, you should be prepared to travel since only the cruisenline cancelling is going to get you a cruiseline refund and/or FCC. And yes, there may be a gray area about medical coverage in a travel policy but, we have no worries since our Medicare supplements don't exclude pandemics as causation and they cover international travel.

Edited May 18, 2020 by Flatbush Flyer

[jocap]

In 2013, a vaccine was produced against shingles, which was for all people aged 70 to 80, the most dangerous years.

As it was told to us by our Health Centre, there would not be sufficient for all those people for 5 years, but there was enough for 1/5th of the people.

The decision was taken to give it to those aged 70, and those aged 79... whether this was from the Ministry or the Health Centre, I'm not sure, but we received a letter with a two minute slot each over one weekend, and I'm sure it took a great deal of organising just for this small, rural area.

The following year the same thing happened, and I believe enough vaccine was produced to cover the rest of the age group in the 3rd year.

I remember this when anyone talks about oh, we'll all be able to have an injection... obviously there will be many more labs producing  world wide than for shingles, but the sheer numbers of people, and who will be at the most risk, so needing the very first set of jabs is mind blowing- Health staff, followed by other services... then those with underlying problems?  

It's a massive problem, even when a solution is found.

[clo]

1 hour ago, jocap said:

It's a massive problem, even when a solution is found.

And there seem to be an awful lot of people who in denial over this. Thanks for a good 'report.'

[lenquixote66]

1 hour ago, clo said:

And there seem to be an awful lot of people who in denial over this. Thanks for a good 'report.'

I cannot believe the people who are in denial .I have posted this previously but it bears repeating:

The politician from California who believed it was a hoax .

The couple from Fla who had the same thoughts,they both have the illness and his wife is on a ventilator and so many more.

 

[clo]

5 minutes ago, lenquixote66 said:

I cannot believe the people who are in denial .I have posted this previously but it bears repeating:

The politician from California who believed it was a hoax .

The couple from Fla who had the same thoughts,they both have the illness and his wife is on a ventilator and so many more.

 

Schools in France opened a few days ago and have closed again due to 70 cases in children.

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/70-cases-covid-19-french-schools-days-after-re-opening-n1209591

[lenquixote66]

17 minutes ago, clo said:

Schools in France opened a few days ago and have closed again due to 70 cases in children.

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/70-cases-covid-19-french-schools-days-after-re-opening-n1209591

I can definitely see the same thing happening in the US ,definitely in NYC and LI .I have heard a lot of people voice opinions about what they are going to do once the Governor opens the state. A good portion of my day is phone conversations with friends,neighbors and relatives telling me about their neighbors and people they know.

It is really scary when supposedly intelligent people cannot understand what is going o n

[clo]

Just now, lenquixote66 said:

I can definitely see the same thing happening in the US ,definitely in NYC and LI .I have heard a lot of people voice opinions about what they are going to do once the Governor opens the state. A good portion of my day is phone conversations with friends,neighbors and relatives telling me about their neighbors and people they know.

It is really scary when supposedly intelligent people cannot understand what is going o n

Len, I've spent a good bit of time thinking about this over the last three plus years. I think it's a combination of ignorance (not stupidity) and closed mindedness.