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We could be in for some huge cruise news and it could be coming sooner than we thought. So, right now to get on a cruise ship, the average cruise ship, you need to, if you’re fully vaccinated, you need to be tested two days ahead of the cruise.
That’s pretty much standard across some places. If you’re up to date with your booster, you can do three days, but let’s say two days on an average and it’s kind of the bane of people cruising.
It becomes that thing to not cruise because you need test and hope you’ll test negative. Otherwise, you’re messed up and you have to cancel your cruise. Your hotel’s already paid for, flights are already paid for. It can become a real mess if you test even a false positive kind of thing.
But the CDC right now is looking at reviewing the testing policy and they are saying “We are re-evaluating testing on cruise ships right now.” and there could be an announcement coming forth with or in other words coming very soon.
How soon is soon, we can’t say. But they did just end testing requirements for flights back to the United States. This was a huge step and a real bonus for cruise ship travelers that they didn’t have to time a test for a flight as well as a test for a cruise, especially, if you’re coming from another country in the United States like the UK or Australia.
The CDC says they’re reevaluating things and they’re looking at it but they also want to stress because just because they ended it on flights doesn’t mean they’re going to end it on cruise ships.
Because flights are short-term like two to three hours tops. Maybe five hours flying across country in the United States and you’re on good air circulation. You’re there for a limited time on board.
They say on cruise ships, it’s more like a moving apartment building where people spend days, weeks, in some case month, if you’re on like a world cruise or you’re doing back to back. You’re on board for with the same people in the same area, eating, sleeping in a residential type community, especially for the crew, which makes it more easily to spread the virus on board etc.
Now they do take note that the cruise lines have done a really good job at their new air filters, the cleanliness, the contact tracing to keep the spread from going around. And so, they say, we’re going to re-evaluate testing before the cruise ship and it’s going to come fairly soon.
Now, do I think they’re going to end testing like they did with flights, like no more testing? No. I think they’re going to gradually do it and I have an idea how I think they’re going to do it.
Okay, what do I think they might come out with? If you are fully vaccinated, you no longer need to test meaning if you’re unvaccinated, they’re still going to make you test to get on the cruise ship.
But they might take that even one step further and say if you’re fully vaccinated, with your booster up to date, that’s where they might start ending the testing for those people. Which starts off that gradual flow.
How long that would last before it goes to everybody who’s vaccinated to everybody who’s not vaccinated, we can’t say. But it would be a step in the right direction. I don’t think they’re going to end the vaccine mandate anytime soon. They might end it, like they did in the in Europe for people under 18.
However, for the average cruise right now, you see what’s happening on some of these cruise ships with in Alaska. They have outbreaks on a lot of ships.
Out of the 84 ships currently registered to sail in the United States, we have 77 of them under watchful investigation by the CDC because there’s outbreaks on board. And it does bring up the question then to the CDC that if mostly everybody, 95 to 99% of people on board are fully vaccinated and they have the protocols on board and they’re still covid on board. What is that testing doing?
Is it really doing what they say it’s doing? Is it mitigating it at all or is it just something that we have to start living with?
They do stress that the cruise lines have done a really good job in the contact racing and that since cruising restarted, there have been very few, if any serious cases of people catching covid on board and ending up with serious repercussions.
We’ve had millions of people get on cruise ships now since the restart and we haven’t seen too many stories in the news of anybody ending up in hospital on a respirator or anything like that.
So the CDC has a lot to weigh right now, a lot to balance out. Do they end it like they did on airlines? I know a lot of people are hoping for that. But I think they might come out with that gradual easing of restrictions.
Because then they could say, look we’re evolving with the times we’re evolving with the situation. The science has changed, the world has changed. And so, we’re taking the first step in dropping protocols. You don’t need to test if you’re fully vaccinated and up to date with your booster. And I have a feeling that might be the way they go well.
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We could be in for some huge cruise news and it could be coming sooner than we thought. So, right now to get on a cruise ship, the average cruise ship, you need to, if you’re fully vaccinated, you need to be tested two days ahead of the cruise.
That’s pretty much standard across some places. If you’re up to date with your booster, you can do three days, but let’s say two days on an average and it’s kind of the bane of people cruising.
It becomes that thing to not cruise because you need test and hope you’ll test negative. Otherwise, you’re messed up and you have to cancel your cruise. Your hotel’s already paid for, flights are already paid for. It can become a real mess if you test even a false positive kind of thing.
But the CDC right now is looking at reviewing the testing policy and they are saying “We are re-evaluating testing on cruise ships right now.” and there could be an announcement coming forth with or in other words coming very soon.
How soon is soon, we can’t say. But they did just end testing requirements for flights back to the United States. This was a huge step and a real bonus for cruise ship travelers that they didn’t have to time a test for a flight as well as a test for a cruise, especially, if you’re coming from another country in the United States like the UK or Australia.
The CDC says they’re reevaluating things and they’re looking at it but they also want to stress because just because they ended it on flights doesn’t mean they’re going to end it on cruise ships.
Because flights are short-term like two to three hours tops. Maybe five hours flying across country in the United States and you’re on good air circulation. You’re there for a limited time on board.
They say on cruise ships, it’s more like a moving apartment building where people spend days, weeks, in some case month, if you’re on like a world cruise or you’re doing back to back. You’re on board for with the same people in the same area, eating, sleeping in a residential type community, especially for the crew, which makes it more easily to spread the virus on board etc.
Now they do take note that the cruise lines have done a really good job at their new air filters, the cleanliness, the contact tracing to keep the spread from going around. And so, they say, we’re going to re-evaluate testing before the cruise ship and it’s going to come fairly soon.
Now, do I think they’re going to end testing like they did with flights, like no more testing? No. I think they’re going to gradually do it and I have an idea how I think they’re going to do it.
Okay, what do I think they might come out with? If you are fully vaccinated, you no longer need to test meaning if you’re unvaccinated, they’re still going to make you test to get on the cruise ship.
But they might take that even one step further and say if you’re fully vaccinated, with your booster up to date, that’s where they might start ending the testing for those people. Which starts off that gradual flow.
How long that would last before it goes to everybody who’s vaccinated to everybody who’s not vaccinated, we can’t say. But it would be a step in the right direction. I don’t think they’re going to end the vaccine mandate anytime soon. They might end it, like they did in the in Europe for people under 18.
However, for the average cruise right now, you see what’s happening on some of these cruise ships with in Alaska. They have outbreaks on a lot of ships.
Out of the 84 ships currently registered to sail in the United States, we have 77 of them under watchful investigation by the CDC because there’s outbreaks on board. And it does bring up the question then to the CDC that if mostly everybody, 95 to 99% of people on board are fully vaccinated and they have the protocols on board and they’re still covid on board. What is that testing doing?
Is it really doing what they say it’s doing? Is it mitigating it at all or is it just something that we have to start living with?
They do stress that the cruise lines have done a really good job in the contact racing and that since cruising restarted, there have been very few, if any serious cases of people catching covid on board and ending up with serious repercussions.
We’ve had millions of people get on cruise ships now since the restart and we haven’t seen too many stories in the news of anybody ending up in hospital on a respirator or anything like that.
So the CDC has a lot to weigh right now, a lot to balance out. Do they end it like they did on airlines? I know a lot of people are hoping for that. But I think they might come out with that gradual easing of restrictions.
Because then they could say, look we’re evolving with the times we’re evolving with the situation. The science has changed, the world has changed. And so, we’re taking the first step in dropping protocols. You don’t need to test if you’re fully vaccinated and up to date with your booster. And I have a feeling that might be the way they go well.
CruisesforSingles.net is dedicated to providing quality information on the subject of Cruises for Singles and in particular various other cruise ideas for customers and merchants online.
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CruisesforSingles.net is dedicated to providing quality information on the subject of Cruises for Singles and in particular various other cruise ideas for customers and merchants online.
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