Disembark if Covid positive

[GOLDENBONNY]

On 10/18/2022 at 5:30 PM, memoak said:

You really don’t care if you spread disease ?

Most countries don't even do testing anymore. People don't need to be quarantined anymore at home, why cruise ship should be different? 

[Ombud]

1 minute ago, GOLDENBONNY said:

I don't even know why someone would do test today, consider those tests not accurate at all.

Dtr works in home heath, so she tests

Sis has a new granddaughter, so she tests

 

I'm carrying tests on my cruises but IDK if I'd tell anyone if I pop positive. I can just shelter in place & on the balcony & mask while getting off. I pick my room bc I like that balcony 

[GOLDENBONNY]

Just now, Ombud said:

Dtr works in home heath, so she tests

Sis has a new granddaughter, so she tests

 

I'm carrying tests on my cruises but IDK if I'd tell anyone if I pop positive. I can just shelter in place & on the balcony & mask while getting off. I pick my room bc I like that balcony 

Here in Canada you can't even get PCR unless you are in care of old people, at least it was like that, maybe not even that anymore. Home tests don't work properly, we learned it last year on our family, so we don't even bother to do them. As you said if we get sick we just put on a mask but definitely not reporting anything. 

[Ombud]

21 minutes ago, GOLDENBONNY said:

28 minutes ago, Ombud said:

Dtr works in home heath, so she tests

Sis has a new granddaughter, so she tests

 

I'm carrying tests on my cruises but IDK if I'd tell anyone if I pop positive. I can just shelter in place & on the balcony & mask while getting off. I pick my room bc I like that balcony 

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Here in Canada you can't even get PCR unless you are in care of old people, at least it was like that, maybe not even that anymore. Home tests don't work properly, we learned it last year on our family, so we don't even bother to do them. As you said if we get sick we just put on a mask but definitely not reporting anything. 

Not to get off into the weeds but the saliva test is supposed to be as accurate as the PCR. We're operating on the thought that they are. 

 

Still not reporting. Will mask up

[ldubs]

On 10/18/2022 at 9:45 AM, NownZen said:

This brings up an interesting point since quarantine is not required on shore. Friends were on NCL and tested positive a few days before the end of the cruise. They had to wait until everyone else disembarked and then the people in white suits showed up to escort them off the ship and left them at the taxi line.

 

On 10/18/2022 at 10:12 AM, JF - retired RRT said:

That sounds kind of pointless.

 

It appears that the disembarkation process followed by NCL is per the current CDC guidelines for cruise ships.  Seems odd they were dropped at a taxi stand because  California has quarantine guidelines.  Though at this point I'm not sure what should have happened after they were off the ship.  It does seem kind of pointless.  

[memoak]

2 hours ago, GOLDENBONNY said:

Here in Canada you can't even get PCR unless you are in care of old people, at least it was like that, maybe not even that anymore. Home tests don't work properly, we learned it last year on our family, so we don't even bother to do them. As you said if we get sick we just put on a mask but definitely not reporting anything. 

Yeah but Canada forced me to quarantine in a hotel for 6 days in September.  I will be waiting forever for reimbursement. And yes the Canadian government called directly to make sure is was w quarantined 

[NownZen]

1 hour ago, ldubs said:

 

 

It appears that the disembarkation process followed by NCL is per the current CDC guidelines for cruise ships.  Seems odd they were dropped at a taxi stand because  California has quarantine guidelines.  Though at this point I'm not sure what should have happened after they were off the ship.  It does seem kind of pointless.  

This was not in the US.

[NownZen]

18 minutes ago, memoak said:

Yeah but Canada forced me to quarantine in a hotel for 6 days in September.  I will be waiting forever for reimbursement. And yes the Canadian government called directly to make sure is was w quarantined 

I know it was unpleasant for you but were you very ill? Or was it the inconvenience? People who are not very sick will not volunteer for the inconvenience. With the lifting of the covid rules, no one will be looking to be quarantined unless they are ill.

[ldubs]

52 minutes ago, NownZen said:

This was not in the US.

 

Yikes. Somehow I confused your comments with the OP's Hawaii r/t.  Sorry about that.  Wherever it was, what you described about the staff in white suits matches the CDC guidelines.   

 

 

[GOLDENBONNY]

On 10/19/2022 at 9:07 PM, Ombud said:

supposed to be as accurate as the PCR.

supposed to be is a key word lol 

 

23 hours ago, memoak said:

Canadian government called directly

its all gone now. that's why you should not tell anyone that you are sick lol

[memoak]

23 hours ago, NownZen said:

I know it was unpleasant for you but were you very ill? Or was it the inconvenience? People who are not very sick will not volunteer for the inconvenience. With the lifting of the covid rules, no one will be looking to be quarantined unless they are ill.

I had to pay for 6 days of hotel charges plus food deliveries   I am being told it will take 4 to 6 months to get reimbursed 

[NownZen]

3 minutes ago, memoak said:

I had to pay for 6 days of hotel charges plus food deliveries   I am being told it will take 4 to 6 months to get reimbursed 

I am happy that you were not sick and the only suffering is a short delay in getting reimbursed.

[memoak]

1 hour ago, NownZen said:

I am happy that you were not sick and the only suffering is a short delay in getting reimbursed.

Next time someone owes you 3-5 thousand dollars and have to wait a half year to get it let me feel how you feel

[memoak]

1 minute ago, Mary loves to travel said:

Well, as you yourself said on another post, you cruised, didn't take many precautions, such as wearing a mask, because you "knew the risks" and were ok with taking the risk.    As any reader of these boards can tell you, the "risks" aren't limited to catching covid, but that service while in quarantine can be slow, and that reimbursements can take quite some time after the cruise completes.

 

As you said, you "knew the risks & were comfortable taking them".   

 

Mary

 

 

I have no idea who you are talking about. We were on the Royal which announced on embarkation that masks were required then refused to enforce it. We wore masks except for eating or drinking and are sure we got it from the 95% who refused to mask

[Mary loves to travel]

1 hour ago, memoak said:

I have no idea who you are talking about. We were on the Royal which announced on embarkation that masks were required then refused to enforce it. We wore masks except for eating or drinking and are sure we got it from the 95% who refused to mask

My apologies.  I must have confused you with someone else.   I’ll see if I can get my post deleted. 
 

Mary

[marie94949]

Having just experienced a mild case of Covid at home, I found that the US CDC does not consider a negative test necessary or relevant to end isolation.  As I read it you can leave the house with a mask after 5 days if you are not sick,  and you can drop the mask after another 5 days (total of 10).

[florence11]

On 10/18/2022 at 9:08 PM, antsp said:

Why would you tell them

I honestly did think about that I was going to keep my mouth shut as we were flying home the following day, but then thought about what if I infected someone and they were seriously ill. I work for the NHS so I had to say something, my husband started feeling ill during the day he tested postive that evening.

If we had made it to the airport who knows where we would have ended up if he had not been allowed to fly. We were extremely well looked after on the ship and then in a 5star hotel everything was paid for so we can't complain.