If Royal Requires A Covid-19 Vaccine Before Cruising Will You Get It???

[yogimax]

22 minutes ago, Tippyton said:

Oh Yogi... still living in fear.  I'm sorry.

Still living and looking forward to cruising when it is safe.  Don't be sorry for me.  Be sorry for the 400,000+ people who will never again set foot on a cruise ship.  My hope is that  fortune will smile upon you and you will also be able to cruise again.

[skywonder]

1 hour ago, Tippyton said:

Oh Yogi... still living in fear.  I'm sorry.

Well said.

[sgmn]

16 hours ago, lizzius said:

We volunteered for the Pfizer trial, 

Thank you for volunteering 🙏

It's people like you who have helped push this vaccine forward so quickly 

And welcome to posting on CC

Sue

[Ocean Boy]

Another reason to require 100% vaccination with no exceptions is I think the Caribbean islands might be more likely to accept ships that have the requirement. If any group on the ship is exempted  for whatever reason then the ship could possibly not be allowed entry. If this turns out to be the case then I think the cruise lines would not have many second thoughts about adopting the requirement. And the islands taking this stance could provide a safe way to get their economies opened up again.

 

Once again, I think vaccination requirement is going to be the key to getting cruising back to the experience that we all know without a highly restrictive environment.

[LuCruise]

48 minutes ago, Ocean Boy said:

Another reason to require 100% vaccination with no exceptions is I think the Caribbean islands might be more likely to accept ships that have the requirement. If any group on the ship is exempted  for whatever reason then the ship could possibly not be allowed entry. If this turns out to be the case then I think the cruise lines would not have many second thoughts about adopting the requirement. And the islands taking this stance could provide a safe way to get their economies opened up again.

 

Once again, I think vaccination requirement is going to be the key to getting cruising back to the experience that we all know without a highly restrictive environment.

Very good point.  It's not just about hanging out on the ship, it's about safely visiting the different destinations and not spreading the virus.  I've commented before, that I think they should have a vaccine as a requirement to get on a cruise ship....and we are ones that will have to wait even longer due to being in the last group for the vaccine, plus we have one child who is only turning 12 this year (so she can't get the vaccine yet).  Need to be patient and do everything to stop the spread.

Edited January 27, 2021 by LuCruise

[Auntiemomo]

15 hours ago, yogimax said:

425,000 dead from COVID.   I don't listen to Chicken Little or Oscar the ostrich.  I listen to the scientists and medical experts.  I'm IN with that.

Yeah, follow the science & medical experts -- that's a load of bologna.  You wear a double mask, not me.   Here's someone who I think has her head screw on properly.  

 

Best most common sense advice I have seen thus far.   It all makes sense to me.

 

A voice of reason.   . . . healthy, happy and safe.

 

Dr. Henry is the Provincial Health Officer for British Columbia, the first woman in this position.  She is also an associate professor at the University of British Columbia. She has a background in  epidemiology and is a specialist in public health and preventive medicine. She is also from PEI.

  

The Wisdom of Dr. Bonnie Henry

1. We may have to live with COVID-19 for months or years. Let's not deny it or panic. Let's not make our lives useless. Let's learn to live with this fact.

2. You can't destroy COVID-19 viruses that have penetrated cell walls, by drinking gallons of hot water you'll just go to the bathroom more often.

 

3. Washing hands and maintaining a two-meter physical distance is the best method for your protection.

 

4. If you don't have a COVID-19 patient at home, there's no need to disinfect the surfaces at your house.

5. Packaged cargo, gas pumps, shopping carts and ATMs do not cause infection. If you wash your hands, live your life as usual.

6. COVID-19 is not a food infection. It is associated with drops of infection like the 'flu. There is no demonstrated risk that COVID-19 is transmitted by food.

7. You can lose your sense of smell with a lot of allergies and viral infections. This is only a non-specific symptom of COVID-19.

8. Once at home, you don't need to change your clothes urgently and go shower! Purity is a virtue, paranoia is not!

9. The COVID-19 virus doesn't hang in the air for long. This is a respiratory droplet infection that requires close contact.

10. The air is clean, you can walk through the gardens and through parks (just keeping your physical protection distance).

11. It is sufficient to use normal soap against COVID-19, not antibacterial soap. This is a virus, not a bacteria.

12. You don't have to worry about your food orders. But you can heat it all up in the microwave, if you wish.

13. The chances of bringing COVID-19 home with your shoes is like being struck by lightning twice in a day. I've been working against viruses for 20 years — drop infections don't spread like that!

14. You can't be protected from the virus by taking vinegar, sugarcane juice and ginger! These are for immunity not a cure.

15. Wearing a mask for long periods interferes with your breathing and oxygen levels . Wear it only in crowds.

16. Wearing gloves is also a bad idea; the virus can accumulate into the glove and be easily transmitted if you touch your face. Better just to wash your hands regularly. Immunity is greatly weakened by always staying in a sterile environment. Even if you eat immune boosting foods, please go out of your house regularly to any park/beach. Immunity is increased by EXPOSURE TO PATHOGENS, not by sitting at home and consuming fried/ spicy/sugary food and aerated drinks.

Be smart and stay informed!  Live life sensibly and to the fullest.

Be Kind, Be Calm and Be Safe!

Sincerely, Dr. Bonnie Henry

[Mapleleafforever]

54 minutes ago, Auntiemomo said:

Yeah, follow the science & medical experts -- that's a load of bologna.  You wear a double mask, not me.   Here's someone who I think has her head screw on properly.  

 

Best most common sense advice I have seen thus far.   It all makes sense to me.

 

A voice of reason.   . . . healthy, happy and safe.

 

 

Dr. Henry is the Provincial Health Officer for British Columbia, the first woman in this position.  She is also an associate professor at the University of British Columbia. She has a background in  epidemiology and is a specialist in public health and preventive medicine. She is also from PEI.

  

The Wisdom of Dr. Bonnie Henry

1. We may have to live with COVID-19 for months or years. Let's not deny it or panic. Let's not make our lives useless. Let's learn to live with this fact.

2. You can't destroy COVID-19 viruses that have penetrated cell walls, by drinking gallons of hot water you'll just go to the bathroom more often.

 

3. Washing hands and maintaining a two-meter physical distance is the best method for your protection.

 

4. If you don't have a COVID-19 patient at home, there's no need to disinfect the surfaces at your house.

5. Packaged cargo, gas pumps, shopping carts and ATMs do not cause infection. If you wash your hands, live your life as usual.

6. COVID-19 is not a food infection. It is associated with drops of infection like the 'flu. There is no demonstrated risk that COVID-19 is transmitted by food.

7. You can lose your sense of smell with a lot of allergies and viral infections. This is only a non-specific symptom of COVID-19.

8. Once at home, you don't need to change your clothes urgently and go shower! Purity is a virtue, paranoia is not!

9. The COVID-19 virus doesn't hang in the air for long. This is a respiratory droplet infection that requires close contact.

10. The air is clean, you can walk through the gardens and through parks (just keeping your physical protection distance).

11. It is sufficient to use normal soap against COVID-19, not antibacterial soap. This is a virus, not a bacteria.

12. You don't have to worry about your food orders. But you can heat it all up in the microwave, if you wish.

13. The chances of bringing COVID-19 home with your shoes is like being struck by lightning twice in a day. I've been working against viruses for 20 years — drop infections don't spread like that!

14. You can't be protected from the virus by taking vinegar, sugarcane juice and ginger! These are for immunity not a cure.

15. Wearing a mask for long periods interferes with your breathing and oxygen levels . Wear it only in crowds.

16. Wearing gloves is also a bad idea; the virus can accumulate into the glove and be easily transmitted if you touch your face. Better just to wash your hands regularly. Immunity is greatly weakened by always staying in a sterile environment. Even if you eat immune boosting foods, please go out of your house regularly to any park/beach. Immunity is increased by EXPOSURE TO PATHOGENS, not by sitting at home and consuming fried/ spicy/sugary food and aerated drinks.

Be smart and stay informed!  Live life sensibly and to the fullest.

Be Kind, Be Calm and Be Safe!

Sincerely, Dr. Bonnie Henry

Canadian here, this is fake. 

[LorraineP]

1 hour ago, Auntiemomo said:

Yeah, follow the science & medical experts -- that's a load of bologna.  You wear a double mask, not me.   Here's someone who I think has her head screw on properly.  

 

Best most common sense advice I have seen thus far.   It all makes sense to me.

 

A voice of reason.   . . . healthy, happy and safe.

 

 

Dr. Henry is the Provincial Health Officer for British Columbia, the first woman in this position.  She is also an associate professor at the University of British Columbia. She has a background in  epidemiology and is a specialist in public health and preventive medicine. She is also from PEI.

  

The Wisdom of Dr. Bonnie Henry

1. We may have to live with COVID-19 for months or years. Let's not deny it or panic. Let's not make our lives useless. Let's learn to live with this fact.

2. You can't destroy COVID-19 viruses that have penetrated cell walls, by drinking gallons of hot water you'll just go to the bathroom more often.

 

3. Washing hands and maintaining a two-meter physical distance is the best method for your protection.

 

4. If you don't have a COVID-19 patient at home, there's no need to disinfect the surfaces at your house.

5. Packaged cargo, gas pumps, shopping carts and ATMs do not cause infection. If you wash your hands, live your life as usual.

6. COVID-19 is not a food infection. It is associated with drops of infection like the 'flu. There is no demonstrated risk that COVID-19 is transmitted by food.

7. You can lose your sense of smell with a lot of allergies and viral infections. This is only a non-specific symptom of COVID-19.

8. Once at home, you don't need to change your clothes urgently and go shower! Purity is a virtue, paranoia is not!

9. The COVID-19 virus doesn't hang in the air for long. This is a respiratory droplet infection that requires close contact.

10. The air is clean, you can walk through the gardens and through parks (just keeping your physical protection distance).

11. It is sufficient to use normal soap against COVID-19, not antibacterial soap. This is a virus, not a bacteria.

12. You don't have to worry about your food orders. But you can heat it all up in the microwave, if you wish.

13. The chances of bringing COVID-19 home with your shoes is like being struck by lightning twice in a day. I've been working against viruses for 20 years — drop infections don't spread like that!

14. You can't be protected from the virus by taking vinegar, sugarcane juice and ginger! These are for immunity not a cure.

15. Wearing a mask for long periods interferes with your breathing and oxygen levels . Wear it only in crowds.

16. Wearing gloves is also a bad idea; the virus can accumulate into the glove and be easily transmitted if you touch your face. Better just to wash your hands regularly. Immunity is greatly weakened by always staying in a sterile environment. Even if you eat immune boosting foods, please go out of your house regularly to any park/beach. Immunity is increased by EXPOSURE TO PATHOGENS, not by sitting at home and consuming fried/ spicy/sugary food and aerated drinks.

Be smart and stay informed!  Live life sensibly and to the fullest.

Be Kind, Be Calm and Be Safe!

Sincerely, Dr. Bonnie Henry

Excellent post. Thank you!

[time4u2go]

1 hour ago, Auntiemomo said:

Yeah, follow the science & medical experts -- that's a load of bologna.

Yet you quoted a doctor? 🤔

[d9704011]

1 hour ago, Auntiemomo said:

Yeah, follow the science & medical experts -- that's a load of bologna.  You wear a double mask, not me.   Here's someone who I think has her head screw on properly.  

 

Best most common sense advice I have seen thus far.   It all makes sense to me.

 

A voice of reason.   . . . healthy, happy and safe.

 

 

Dr. Henry is the Provincial Health Officer for British Columbia, the first woman in this position.  She is also an associate professor at the University of British Columbia. She has a background in  epidemiology and is a specialist in public health and preventive medicine. She is also from PEI.

  

The Wisdom of Dr. Bonnie Henry

1. We may have to live with COVID-19 for months or years. Let's not deny it or panic. Let's not make our lives useless. Let's learn to live with this fact.

2. You can't destroy COVID-19 viruses that have penetrated cell walls, by drinking gallons of hot water you'll just go to the bathroom more often.

 

3. Washing hands and maintaining a two-meter physical distance is the best method for your protection.

 

4. If you don't have a COVID-19 patient at home, there's no need to disinfect the surfaces at your house.

5. Packaged cargo, gas pumps, shopping carts and ATMs do not cause infection. If you wash your hands, live your life as usual.

6. COVID-19 is not a food infection. It is associated with drops of infection like the 'flu. There is no demonstrated risk that COVID-19 is transmitted by food.

7. You can lose your sense of smell with a lot of allergies and viral infections. This is only a non-specific symptom of COVID-19.

8. Once at home, you don't need to change your clothes urgently and go shower! Purity is a virtue, paranoia is not!

9. The COVID-19 virus doesn't hang in the air for long. This is a respiratory droplet infection that requires close contact.

10. The air is clean, you can walk through the gardens and through parks (just keeping your physical protection distance).

11. It is sufficient to use normal soap against COVID-19, not antibacterial soap. This is a virus, not a bacteria.

12. You don't have to worry about your food orders. But you can heat it all up in the microwave, if you wish.

13. The chances of bringing COVID-19 home with your shoes is like being struck by lightning twice in a day. I've been working against viruses for 20 years — drop infections don't spread like that!

14. You can't be protected from the virus by taking vinegar, sugarcane juice and ginger! These are for immunity not a cure.

15. Wearing a mask for long periods interferes with your breathing and oxygen levels . Wear it only in crowds.

16. Wearing gloves is also a bad idea; the virus can accumulate into the glove and be easily transmitted if you touch your face. Better just to wash your hands regularly. Immunity is greatly weakened by always staying in a sterile environment. Even if you eat immune boosting foods, please go out of your house regularly to any park/beach. Immunity is increased by EXPOSURE TO PATHOGENS, not by sitting at home and consuming fried/ spicy/sugary food and aerated drinks.

Be smart and stay informed!  Live life sensibly and to the fullest.

Be Kind, Be Calm and Be Safe!

Sincerely, Dr. Bonnie Henry

A fake list that was debunked last July.  Don’t believe everything you read on Cruise Critic.

[koolZip]

On 1/25/2021 at 7:47 PM, Ocean Boy said:

And I agree with you. That is why I won't be cruising until masks are a thing on the past.

Even after we "get back to normal", I'll probably wear a mask in the terminal during embarkation/disembarkation. Won't wear on on board if it's not required.

[Formula280SS]

1 hour ago, koolZip said:

Even after we "get back to normal", I'll probably wear a mask in the terminal during embarkation/disembarkation. Won't wear on on board if it's not required.

 

Yep, just don't know what to do with todays mask updates.  2 are better than 1 and 3 are better than 2.  Theoretically, a plastic mask is the ultimate protector; but, unfortunately, it comes with consequence of likely death by asphyxiation.  On the bright side, it won't be a Covid cruise ship outbreak or  a Covid cruise ship death.  😲 

[John&LaLa]

2 minutes ago, Formula280SS said:

 

Yep, just don't know what to do with todays mask updates.  2 are better than 1 and 3 are better than 2.  Theoretically, a plastic mask is the ultimate protector; but, unfortunately, it comes with consequence of likely death by asphyxiation.  On the bright side, it won't be a Covid cruise ship outbreak or  a Covid cruise ship death.  😲 

 

But they'll claim mitigating circumstances😉

[Ocean Boy]

2 hours ago, Formula280SS said:

 

Yep, just don't know what to do with todays mask updates.  2 are better than 1 and 3 are better than 2.  Theoretically, a plastic mask is the ultimate protector; but, unfortunately, it comes with consequence of likely death by asphyxiation.  On the bright side, it won't be a Covid cruise ship outbreak or  a Covid cruise ship death.  😲 

But your death certificate will say covid related. Why else would you have been wearing a mask in the first place?

[xpcdoojk]

Just when I thought this thread couldn’t be any dumber.....  it exceeded expectations

[xpcdoojk]

‘that wasn’t directed at either OB or Formula

[John&LaLa]

7 minutes ago, xpcdoojk said:

Just when I thought this thread couldn’t be any dumber.....  it exceeded expectations

 

Humor thread just passed 15,000 posts

Edited January 28, 2021 by John&LaLa

[xpcdoojk]

Yes, but, I am a humorless maroon.  I am unfortunately stuck in the half world of reality and *****...  

 

It seems the latter is winning most days, which makes me very sad, and sans humor... which is really just memes and bad hair days.

 

Which I have everyday now, as I haven’t had a hair cut since February last....  I am showing my leadership skills of not doing those things we all took for granted pre covid....  I walked in this morning after driving to work in the snow about feet from my parking spot to the office, when I realized, I didn’t put my stupid mask on as it was in the Jeep... so I turned around and got my face diaper, and walked in.... as if I saved the world.  

 

We are so screwed....

 

JMHO and YMMV

[xpcdoojk]

150 feet

[broadwaybaby123]

I already got both doses of the Pfizer vaccine, so if they require it, I'm good to go! 

[FromSea2ShiningSea]

1 hour ago, John&LaLa said:

 

Humor thread just passed 15,000 posts

 

I'm catching up.  I started late.  I'm on page 295 now.  Almost halfway there.

[John&LaLa]

10 hours ago, xpcdoojk said:

150 feet

 

Uphill, both ways no doubt

Edited January 28, 2021 by John&LaLa

[xpcdoojk]

Pretty flat, but 25 degrees with snow on the ground and a north wind.  

[cjdixon4]

21 hours ago, Auntiemomo said:

Yeah, follow the science & medical experts -- that's a load of bologna.  You wear a double mask, not me.   Here's someone who I think has her head screw on properly.  

 

Best most common sense advice I have seen thus far.   It all makes sense to me.

 

A voice of reason.   . . . healthy, happy and safe.

 

 

 

The information is helpful for me, and thank you for sharing.  

To those whom this didn't matter, they are certainly free to keep scrolling.

[keyboardjunkie]

It is important for ALL of us (I am including myself here) to be certain that the information we share is true and accurate.  The statement by Dr. Bonnie Henry is an example.  This statement, which has been retweeted, copied, falsely cited, etc. since July 2021, is disinformation and is a false-hood.

 

Everything that is on the internet is not true.  Please consider before sharing information to check it's validity. Disinformation is a disservice to everyone and is potentially dangerous.

 

See:

 

https://www2.unbc.ca/newsroom/unbc-stories/watch-out-covid-19-disinformation

https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/bc-news/fake-list-covid-19-wisdom-dr-bonnie-henry-social-media-2566818

https://factcheck.afp.com/coronavirus-advice-falsely-attributed-british-columbias-health-officer-spreads-social-media

 

 

P.S. - Dr. Bonnie Henry is a physician in Canada and a 30 year Navy physician.  She is highly respected and is quoted in aNew York Times interview as saying that we must “find that balance so we minimize the impact of Covid, particularly on those people who are more likely to have severe illness or die from it, and minimize the unintended negative consequence of all the other things as well.”