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That's a good starting point for a comedy plot ! Just imagine some passengers holding a poor guy over the railing and asking him whether to put on a mask or go visit the fish below.

Noro has long been "under control" on cruise ships.  That doesn't mean it doesn't happen on ships, but relative to other places in the US it is very minor on ships.  
The CDC themselves reports this:

The CDC reports cruise ships account for around 1% of all reported cases, so few they don't make it onto the chart above.
Norovirus is the most frequent (over 90%) cause of outbreaks of diarrheal disease on cruise ships and these outbreaks often get media attention, which is why some people call norovirus the “cruise ship virus.” However, norovirus outbreaks on cruise ships account for only a small percentage (1%) of all reported norovirus outbreaks. https://www.cdc.gov/norovirus/trends-outbreaks/outbreaks.html
You are almost twice as likely to get noro in a private residence (1.9% vs. 1%)
You are 6 times more likely to get noro at a school or daycare.
You are 22 times more likely to get noro at a land based restaurant. 
The highest number of noro outbreaks occur in health care facilities accounting for 62% of all reported cases.
In reality though on land many noro outbreaks are never reported so the odds are likely even better on cruise ships where noro outbreaks have to be reported per federal regulations.  If a local restaurant, church or high school has an outbreak there are no federal regulations requiring it to be reported to the CDC and local media might not even report it.  
That's the frustrating aspect of the pandemic.  Cruise ships get a lot of attention meanwhile the virus is spreading out of control in many places but it's much harder to determine if spread occured on a city bus or an airplane even though those are one of so many places that spread is occuring.  Meanwhile cruise ships are locked down while other spreading venues are free to carry on. 

Tracelets -- Don't really care, I can think of a few ways to have some fun with this one anyway... Staying in my cabin while leaving it hung on the door so it tags every person who walks past as being within my bubble. Sending my cabin mate around with both when getting something to eat or whatever, etc.  I think it's more of a gimmick than anything and won't do much good.  It's not like that by the end of the cruise you won't have come within 10 feet of nearly every person on the ship and IMHO that is what the bubble will end up being.  It's a wireless tech and sadly being wireless it's not all that reliable, I used to shoot WiFi connections 10 miles and hated troubleshooting problems because it's hard to test the air.  Sometimes it meant just swapping equipment while hoping that would fix it.  The worst was when I was able to see the tower with my naked eye and be unable to get a decent connection.
Limited time in the pools -- Fine not a problem as long as they also limit the times in the chairs so people can't horde them, maybe pick up towels left unattended.  I am more for the hot tub than the pool anyway and honestly would rather be 80 feet under the water.  
Limited tables for dining -- Meh, the ships are also going to have limited capacity as well so I doubt it's going to be a huge deal.
Temperature checks -- May ask for them to use my thermometer... Going to buy a rectal one so we can all thoroughly enjoy the experience. ?  But seriously, walk into a doctors office or hospital right now and they are doing temp checks as long as it's the non contact ones it's a few seconds.  And they won't be able to do them if you have been in the pool or the sun unless they plan to have a large waiting area because the water will throw the temp low and the sun will throw it high which means they will need a spot for a 5 minute sit down for the temps to normalize.
Limited seating in the theatre -- Who want's to sit right next to someone else anyway, usually at least one seat between anyway.  Also see limited tables for dining as that also applies here.  But hopefully they plan on adding in an extra show or two so everyone gets to enjoy.
Muster 2.0 -- You mean I don't have to stand in some smooshed together group and listen to some woman complaining about being there while her kids are running around like they have no manners and the baby is screaming?  Yes please!!
1 metre social distancing - 1 meter is personal bubble space to me.  I also doubt that a large chunk of people are going to truly follow that to the letter anyway, shoot tons of people don't wear masks either.  That is part of the reason why I use a P100 respirator instead of a cheap cloth mask that doesn't have a chance of sealing.  I also have received the 1st dose of the Pfizer C19 vaccine and get the second in a couple weeks, if any boosters come out I will probably have that earlier than the average person as well.
 
And finally I doubt a large chunk of this will matter by the time cruising gets going again.  They haven't even had a test cruise in the US yet and until they do I consider everything dead until further notice.  I just wish that RCCL would give some points for booking and trying to go, especially if they cancel.  The only thing I see sticking around for a while is temp checks and Muster 2.0 by the time I am getting on a ship again.  I think the temp thing will end up being a couple thermal cameras here and there near hallways and while coming on or off the ship.

I just got my first vaccine 3 days ago. I am ready to go > I am hoping my first cruise is July 11. I don't mind if it is any restriction . It is still much better then any other vacation. 

Carnival has announce further cancellations and redeployments into the 4th Qtr of 2021 !! And for those who tried and keep trying to sugar-coat it, let it sink in. It's happening. 2021 starting to look more and more like a bust!!
 

Maybe.  We'll see.  I insist that @twangsterbe there though....
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Same!!

I can't go on that cruise, all the star class are gone.

Very funny, you can still be on deck 17. Lots of room left. ?

Port Everglades?  OMG... do you have any idea how far that is?

I just booked Allure out of Port Everglades on 12/19/2021.  Pretty decent price on a CLS.  Short cruise but for the price it's not bad.  And I have tons of FCC to use up lol.
@WAAAYTOOO @twangster wanna come along? lol

You could try this: https://pevvesseltraffic.broward.org/webx/
No cruises right now, of course, so I can't confirm that it will have them when the time comes.

Let's all hope it all goes smoothly and we can have these fabulous cruises go ahead

Thanks for the info.  I went and checked.  I don't have anything expiring until July 2025.  Good thing !

If you have the Royal Caribbean credit card and have not checked, might want to do so TONIGHT (1/31/21).  Any points showing 2020 expiration expire after midnight tonight.  Go online and redeem rather than lose the points!

Oh... Donna and I are booked Allure out of Port Everglades on 12/05/2021. We got a Jr. Suite on Deck 9 on the bump out for $2200.00 ? with the insurance and two bottles of wine.  ?  
Should have told me sooner !! LOL ?

Oh... Donna and I are booked Allure out of Port Everglades on 12/05/2021. We got a Jr. Suite on Deck 9 on the bump out for $2200.00 ? with the insurance and two bottles of wine.  ?  
Should have told me sooner !! LOL ?

So as quick update, I received my first dose of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine a little over a week ago. No soreness, or any other side effects.

I am missing cruising , so I decided to try and check the numbers with the new vaccine news.
Few things we already now : 
1. Pfizer can produce up to 100 Million vaccine until the end of the year and around 1.2 B during 2021.
2. Each one require to get two portions of the vaccine in 28 days.
3. The Pfizer vaccine require to be kept in -94 f 
4. Moderna  vaccine is similar to the Pfizer one , both are based on RNA.
Assumptions : 
1. Moderna will announce soon on the test results its expected to be more and less like Pfizer.
2. Moderna will be able to produce more and less the same numbers of vaccine portions but their issue will be with shipments (Pfizer invested in special freezing systems)
3. Not all the vaccine portion will go to the US , I estimate 50% of it will go to other countries per agreements unless the US government will force them to first distribute it only in the US.
4. First only the first responders and medical workers will  get the vaccine , later teachers , people with health risk and then the public population.
5. Some expert say you need to have 60% of the people vaccine to get the herd effect some says 90%
I have created this graph which shows the ability to give vaccine to the US population with the assumption of 10% better production of the vaccine every month and 5% better ability to distribute it .
On the graph you can see : 
1. Pfizer only (50% to the US).
2. Pfizer and Moderna.
3. Pfizer Moderna and a non freeze vaccine (based on regular vaccine system).
4. All the 3 if the US decide to keep all vaccine portion in the US for the first year.
I did not took the 90% success factor in but you can estimate it will have a one month effect 
I also added the 60 and 90 % of the US population so you can see when in theory the herd effect happens  , when the horizontal lines cross with the other lines its the month we should have the herd effect.
As you can see best case scenario is April 2021 (all three vaccine are available and kept in the US) worse case scenario Jan 2022   (Only Pfizer is available and only half is kept in the US)
Sorry for the small graph , I failed to add the bigger picture for some reason by I had a BMP file with the same.

 
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This^^^
^^^and this!!
Thank you for wording that perfectly as always @twangster ?

I needed to double-check but Port Canaveral it is on October 24th to 31st 2021 on Allure.  Looks like Nov 8th is the first one out of Port Everglades.

Here’s another good short documentary I found (under 8 minutes) on “What It Takes To Be A Cruise Ship Performer”... filmed on Symphony!
 
 

I know.  If you guy's get your cruise in October, We'll get our in December. ? 

Thank you!

My Wife and I have done couples massages on every cruise.  Kind of expensive, compared to a massage back on shore. 
But your on vacation!! So why not splurge.