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    Cruiseallday got a reaction from Cruising With JT in US cruises could restart soon with 'passenger voyages by mid-July,' CDC says   
    Matt just posted this on the blog! Fingers crossed!
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    Cruiseallday reacted to twangster in CDC What do you think?   
    Latest CDC press conference...

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    Cruiseallday reacted to Matt in Quit playing games with my heart   
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    Cruiseallday reacted to Lovetocruise2002 in Considerations in and the Interest Level for Sailing in June with RCL (Bahamas) or Celebrity (St. Maartin).   
    Let’s all stick to the topic of this thread, which I am assuming is the interest level of sailing out of the Bahamas this summer.
     
    Let’s not turn this into a thread where we are criticizing or judging other countries for their vaccine rollout or question why their government did what they did. 
     
    The way I see it, the bottom line is that we are all frustrated on some level regardless of what country we are from. We all want to get back to cruising. But no amount of criticism, or playing the would have, should have, could have game is going to change any of the decisions that our governments have already made, nor will it speed up the rollout of vaccines in different parts of the world. Nor will it get us back to cruising sooner so the discussion is quite pointless. 
     
    Stick to the thread topic, are you interested in sailing out of the Bahamas or not? All other discussions belong on some other forum. Not here.
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    Cruiseallday reacted to Jill in Cruise Start Date Anticipated - Hyped Incorrectly   
    Pretty sure Navigator wasn’t the “real” news that was originally hyped. It couldn’t possibly be the “news we’ve all been waiting for” so I guess we sit and wait until either Bayley or Fain spill the beans. 
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    Cruiseallday reacted to DD474 in Cruise Start Date Anticipated - Hyped Incorrectly   
    Uncle Joe needs to ? understand..We've been having cookouts for the past year and this 4th of July is no different..?
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    Cruiseallday reacted to twangster in Cruise Start Date Anticipated - Hyped Incorrectly   
    The CDC is an interesting agency.   It is an example of government doing what it does best.  Nothing.
    When a cruise ship had an outbreak off the California coast the CDC did nothing.  They didn't step in to help, they kept the ship offshore doing circles in the ocean.  This pretty closely followed the mistakes made by public health officials in Japan that kept guests on the ship which exacerbated the outbreak.  To cover up it's failures and the failures of Japan's version of the CDC, the CDC... blamed the cruise lines.
    At the same time the virus was running wild through nursing homes killing at an alarming rate and the CDC did nothing but watch.  
    When the CDC wanted to extend the cruise ship ban they did just that only changing the name of the orders they used to do so.  In the process they consumed pages of the order to... blame the cruise lines.
    Now the CDC continues to keep the industry shutdown through its continued inaction and really the only thing the agency is good at which is... doing nothing.
    It seems to me the occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave really has little bearing on the outcome.   
    The CDC has one continued goal that hasn't wavered and that is... to do nothing but blame the cruise lines for the CDC's failures.  Despite hundreds of experts and scientists the CDC has allowed the virus to run rampant throughout our communities while they do nothing meaningful to stop it. 
    Even today the biggest action the CDC has taken to safeguard America is to ban cruise ships.  Around 15% of Americans have taken a cruise so it's no wonder this great plan from the CDC to save America hasn't stopped the virus from spreading in America.
    Blame the current administration or blame the previous administration to suit your political alliance but the real villain here is the CDC.
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    Cruiseallday reacted to jticarruthers in Cruise Start Date Anticipated - Hyped Incorrectly   
    My reaction was the opposite, hearing the President suggesting that if we buckle down and follow all the rules, etc. we might get to a place four months from now that Florida got to almost a year ago sounded so pathetic.
    Given that the only time the CDC has shown any interest in even thinking about moving cruising forward is when the occupant of the White House applies pressure, I don't see cruising starting anytime soon.
    I'm desperately hoping but don't see it.
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    Cruiseallday reacted to Lovetocruise2002 in Cruise Planner 125% offer   
    Once applied to a sailing, it shows up online.
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    Cruiseallday reacted to Mike.s in UK domestic cruises given green light   
    https://www.cruisetradenews.com/domestic-cruises-could-restart-on-17-may-reports-suggest/
    The UK has just given the go ahead for UK domestic cruises from 17th May, come on RC, seize the opportunity
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    Cruiseallday reacted to Matt in Finally optimistic, anyone else?   
    After Monday's earnings call, my optimism is even higher.
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    Cruiseallday reacted to JeffB in It's Coming ........   
    Started this new thread topic spurred on by the news of Azamara canceling cruises through June, 2021. If I'm not mistaken, Azamara ports predominantly in locations other than the US (they list Miami as a port of call). I'm not taking much from this news because of that as I think the tendency is going to incorrectly associate Azamara COVID decision making with RCG. I think Azamara will work closely with RCL wrt health protocols but not undertaking test and restarting revenue sailings from US ports with Azamara not sailing from any of them.
    Having gotten that out of the way, back to the thread title: IT'S COMING. I started to title the thread It's Happening but that wording suggests things are underway or will happen imminently. Instead,  I think .....
    The CDC will green light test sailings from US ports by mid-May at the latest.  Given a green light to start test sailing, all the majors will slowly restart revenue sailings during the first week in June in combination with additional test sailings. Each ship is required to do these to obtain technical certification from the CDC before each ship is allowed to embark passengers. Initial itineraries will launch from a select number of ports in FL and TX - that's because (1) These states are politically more liberal wrt mitigation measures and lifting them. (2) Governor Desantis in FL has already said his state is ready to welcome back the cruise lines to ports in Fort-Lauderdale, Miami, Tampa and Orlando. The first region to have cruise ships sail within it will be the Caribbean Basin. Three and four day cruises to no where or just as likely to private islands will predominate until the cruise lines work out details with countries that have cruise ports within the Caribbean basin to include Mexico. When that is achieved we'll begin seeing 7d and ultimately longer itineraries but still in the Caribbean.    Australian, Asian and European itineraries with US citizens on board are less certain in my mind and that is because of the perception by health authorities there that US travelers are higher risk for disease spread than EU or Asian citizens. As for Australia and New Zealand, I doubt cruising will resume from there anytime soon. The UK could be an exception. Land based tours and river cruises in the EU and Asia will happen before mega cruise ships carrying US passengers return to the major foreign ports - maybe smaller ships carrying under 1000 passengers by June/July 2021. September is a more likely time frame for the aforementioned regions, not including Australia and New Zealand, for large ship cruising to resume there.   What do I base this on? To be clear, other than my medical background and the amount of time I spend researching and reading COVID related medical literature, I have no special insight. I have a re-opening bias and have since February of 2020. I was stupendously wrong about the length and social, economic impact of SARS-2 but I attribute some of the damage done to certainly politics and just as importantly to overreacting to the virus when it hit the US. US public health authorities used the proverbial sledge instead of scalpel.  Rather than scientific facts driving public health policy, fear and a "do something" mentality prevailed and a lot of "something" at the local level was flat-out wrong and unnecessary. . There's room for debate here and I acknowledge that but barring unnecessary overreacting and politics, IMO, the US could have avoided a lot of COVID deaths, got kids back in school and avoided the shuttering - social and economic - that did take place.
    You have to be hiding under a rock to not have heard that the introduction of vaccines to what should be the primo target population - over 65 - has dramatically lowered all three standard measures of COVID disease burden - death, hospitalizations AND, surprisingly, new infection absolute numbers and rates of infection (R0).  If one is strictly following the emerging scientific data, vaccinated people should be granted increased mobility and be subject to less stringent mitigation measures. In a mixed group of vaccinated and unvaccinated people, sensible, layered mitigation measures (limited access - to include negative RAPID testing for entry, capacity control, distancing and masking) will keep everyone safe by reducing risk, not to zero - as it can't be - but good enough...... the later being particularly applicable to the cruise industry.
    I'm 50/50 on a vaccine mandate to cruise (or travel for that matter) for a lot of different reasons.  But you can bet someone at RCL has asked how many bookings do we have for over 65s and what is the estimate of how many of those have been vaccinated? Can we cruise and make money with just that population?
    Given my optimistic bias take all of this FWIW. I'm also, admittedly, reading between the lines of recent cruise talk from cruise line executives to knowledgeable cruisers. For example, the Biden administration and it's two main public health spokes persons (Fauci and Walenski -CDC) are purposely articulating easy to reach COVID goals for political purposes. You have to believe these people have a much clearer understanding of a likely return to some level of post-COVID normalcy than they are letting on and will spring it on the electorate pronouncing a job well done, exceeding all the goals and beyond expectations by the present administration and President Joe Biden. Or, take for example, Fain .....  "we should be getting technical guidance from the CDC any day now" or, this ...... at least in the case of RCL, shoring up the company financial ship to, IMO, secure a viable approach -  insuring the cash is at hand to return ships from warm storage and assemble/train crews, all on short notice.
    It's coming. Check back with me in 60d to see how wrong or right I might have been with this post.
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    Cruiseallday reacted to Matt in CDC Asks RCL for information   
    This is my takeaway. The two sides are talking, even if it doesn't result in policy change.
    I think many, myself included, assumed CDC was "missing in action" and the cruise lines were submitting requests and proposals with no feedback.
    It's encouraging that the CDC is not only talking, but engaged.
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    Cruiseallday reacted to Matt in None the wiser   
    I agree with @twangster in his assessment. There is a lot of positive change coming, and I think we are on the precipice of many promises finally coming our way.
    The rollout of the vaccine, plummeting cases, very good news about its efficacy, and imminent information from the CDC for cruise lines all point to ships being able to sail again.
    I've said it before and I'll say it again. I will be on a cruise ship as a paying guest by the end of 2021.
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    Cruiseallday reacted to twangster in None the wiser   
    I've received an update to my programming.  
    We've all grown accustomed to yet another round of bad news, more cancellations, etc. that it's hard to believe the light at the end of tunnel is actually a light and it's getting brighter... and no it's not a train about to slam into us.
    There will be more cancellations simply because the entire fleet won't start sailing on May 1st so don't confuse my optimism as a suggestion of only good news from now on.  There will be small setbacks and cancellations for some cruises coming.
    If you close your eyes and squint ever so slightly there are signs that we are moving in the right direction.  It won't be overnight and it will take time.
    I have lifted my "don't book any more cruises" policy and I am now booking cruises to hedge my bet.  Some are refundable and most are short cruises initially.  I am picking ships carefully, buying the dining package and drink package knowing lounges may be unavailable.  I'm spacing cruises out to ensure more than two weeks between them but I can already smell the Playmakers Burger that's on its way to my seat at the bar. 
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    Cruiseallday reacted to Ray in Best way to contact legislators.   
    Every other post is doom and gloom!!! 
    Everyday is like groundhog day with the same virus talk being said over and over again.
    Im not wearing a mask onboard! Thats fine but you wont be sailing!!
    Its not a vacation!If thats how you feel stay at home!!!
    Cant make me do this or that! Well if you want to cruise they can!!
    Against my rights etc etc etc
    I can read and its on tv every hour i dont really want to log on here and its the same! 
    Its boring to be honest! Way i see it we can all try and predict the future but no one really can, if we could would we really predict when cruising will restart or what that weekends lotto numbers will be? right now its all guess work and just waiting to see what happens.
    Personally i would rather read a made up blog about relocating to florida or whats the best beach or hotel in Bermuda than some of the depressing posts about Covid. 
    Lets get back to the fun without all the covid, government and science posts, at the end of the day what will be will be and the only way we can change things is by following the rules and advice given 
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    Cruiseallday reacted to Matt in Royal Caribbean to require crew to be vaccinated   
    Please leave the political discussion out of this.  This thread is about RC requiring crew to get the vaccine.
    I don't care how funny you think your joke about any politician is, it has no place here.
    Most of you are well aware of this rule, and the fact someone else posts it doesnt give you carte blanche to respond back.  Report it and the mods will deal with it.
    This is not the forum for political discussion. Nor is it the place to discuss alternative theories on how vaccines "work". 
    If your post doesn't include something about cruising, it doesn't belong here.
    I know some of you are reading this and thinking "Can't we have civil discussions?" or "Why are you censoring us?" or "Why does @Lovetocruise2002start her live blogs so darn early?"
    The reality is you will convince no one that you're right and they are wrong. All it does it antagonize everyone, make some people truly angry, and lead to insults, name calling, and pages of arguments that are meaningless.
    Consider this the final warning on the political discussion.
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    Cruiseallday reacted to Matt in Covid 19 Vaccine   
    Forced to close this thread. This isn't the place to debate the virtues of a vaccine, nor attack each other for their views on it.
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    Cruiseallday got a reaction from bhageerah in Covid 19 Vaccine   
    I am a Firefighter/EMT and I was notified by my county Health department by email. I had to register and fill out a health questionnaire. Once you complete that process they let me choose the time and date that I would like to get the Vaccine. The time frame only went out a few days because of the Holiday's so I choose my next day off which is tomorrow to get the Vaccine. I know plenty of others that have received it and so far no issues. 
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    Cruiseallday got a reaction from Psycho and Barb in Covid 19 Vaccine   
    I just got my first dose yesterday with no side effects. Just a little soreness in the arm just like my flu shot. In my area the military is handling all the logistics of this. I was told yesterday we have plenty of Vaccines but we are in short supply of people to give the Vaccine which is why the Military is helping with everything else. They have begun training our local paramedics to give the vaccine to speed this process up. I go for my 2nd shot on January 20th. 
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    Cruiseallday got a reaction from KWofPerth in Covid 19 Vaccine   
    I just got my first dose yesterday with no side effects. Just a little soreness in the arm just like my flu shot. In my area the military is handling all the logistics of this. I was told yesterday we have plenty of Vaccines but we are in short supply of people to give the Vaccine which is why the Military is helping with everything else. They have begun training our local paramedics to give the vaccine to speed this process up. I go for my 2nd shot on January 20th. 
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    Cruiseallday got a reaction from RCIfan1912 in Covid 19 Vaccine   
    I just got my first dose yesterday with no side effects. Just a little soreness in the arm just like my flu shot. In my area the military is handling all the logistics of this. I was told yesterday we have plenty of Vaccines but we are in short supply of people to give the Vaccine which is why the Military is helping with everything else. They have begun training our local paramedics to give the vaccine to speed this process up. I go for my 2nd shot on January 20th. 
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    Cruiseallday got a reaction from WannaCruise in Covid 19 Vaccine   
    I just got my first dose yesterday with no side effects. Just a little soreness in the arm just like my flu shot. In my area the military is handling all the logistics of this. I was told yesterday we have plenty of Vaccines but we are in short supply of people to give the Vaccine which is why the Military is helping with everything else. They have begun training our local paramedics to give the vaccine to speed this process up. I go for my 2nd shot on January 20th. 
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    Cruiseallday reacted to WAAAYTOOO in Covid 19 Vaccine   
    Got a notice by text this evening that anyone over 65 that wants to be vaccinated only has to call and make an appointment. There is apparently a 1 week lead time.  Surprised that they are getting to us so quickly.
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    Cruiseallday reacted to Linda R in Covid 19 Vaccine   
    I got my first vaccine  about 10 days ago.  Not one reaction, didn't really even feel the injection itself.  2nd one next week.
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