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On the move..

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OMG... You're totally ready for a cruise ship. ?  
The best part will be going through security.  ?
No need to take your temp. 

This board has gone in so many directions.?

Have you seen the 8th Oasis-class ship? It's called the secret oasis, and it uses Harry Potter magic to make it look smaller.

I believe it depends on which country/countries waters you are in. @WAAAYTOOO @twangster, correct me if I'm wrong.

@LizzyBee23 @RickinSTL Thank you for your service!

Google translate is your friend ? 
It will take several hours, they proceed very slowly and in places where they must pass through bridges even slower.
 
 
Google translate:
The transfer of the exceptionally large shipyard "Odyssey of the Seas" on the Ems shipping route from Papenburg to See is planned for February 27, 2021 and February 28, 2021. For the purpose of the ship transfer, the water level between Papenburg and Gandersum is dammed with the help of the Ems barrage at Gandersum.
1.2 Ship transfer
The ship transfer is expected to begin on February 27, 2021 at around 4 a.m. in Papenburg. The passage of the Jann-Berghaus-Brücke in Leer is planned for February 27, 2021 at around 12:00 p.m. The shipyard ship is expected to pass through the Gandersum Ems barrier on February 28, 2021 at around 00:30 a.m.
 

Well, today's messaging from Fauci and Walensky is anything but encouraging or words that might lead to local officials easing restrictions or the CDC greenlighting cruising.  In fact, quite the opposite and, IMO, intended. According to these now public faces of the Biden administration's COVID experts, the rate of decline in new infections is slowing so, don't break out the Champaign just yet ..... or worse, don't start relaxing mitigation measures or letting the cruise industry get back to producing billions in global economic activity.

Here's the basis of that. Epidemiologist think that the UK variant is going to become the dominant strain in the US. It has risen from 1% of new cases to 10% here. The UK variant is more transmissible because it spends more time in the human host compared to the original strain (13d v. 8d). Ostensibly, that leads to one person infecting more people that they come in contact with, IOW R(0) rises. So, R(0) must be rising, right? Is R(0) rising?

I track three sources of data that are the basis for R(0) - the most reliable measure of trends in circulating virus; when it's below 1.0 it can be present but it is not increasing in sero-prevalence (% positivity). All of them are in agreement: the presence of the virus is declining*. There may be local increases but these are few and far between. Check your state here:

https://epiforecasts.io/covid/posts/...united-states/

* This data is collated and presented at this website on a weekly basis and is current as of 02/20/2021. The CDC does not get anymore accurate data than what the states report and they will report week-ending data for 02/26/21 tomorrow. Wslenski is shamefully premature and probably wrong in suggesting that circulating virus "could be" on the rise.

Are deaths and hospitalizations rising? Nope...... and these two metrics are the best and most important measures of COVID disease burden.

https://covidtracking.com/analysis-u...19-data-feb-25

So, what is this, people? If I can go out and show that today's statements made by Fauci and Walensky are at best premature and at the worst, blatantly wrong and misleading how much confidence should Americans have in what they're selling? Is there any doubt why people are still scarred and won't go out? Why the CDC is holding out on allowing cruises to operate from US ports causing billions in losses to this industry? Any doubt why we will continue to have these unnecessary measures being foisted on us by local officials? To bring that point home, an article popped up in my local Sun Sentinel around 2p today. The author interviewed a handful of vaccinated people in S FL asking them if their behavior was going to change after they got vaccinated and as more Floridians got their shots? Everyone of them said they were still concerned about getting COVID and still wouldn't go out or socialize much ...... face palm follows. Once people buy into how they should behave, it is really hard to change that unless and of course you aren't following this advice like sheep.
 

Lawsuit has been dropped https://news.bloomberglaw.com/class-action/royal-caribbean-investor-drops-lawsuit-over-virus-disclosures

And that will seem low in a month or two.
It's coming folks...

Not sure what I am missing here, but my Cruise Planner looks the same as always.  No new format....

From reading the "other" thread, the biggest thing coming out of this change is that fact that you will no longer be able to price compare items that you have purchased in the Cruise Planner.  It will just show that you have already purchased this item and there will be no current price available.  According to "authorities" on the other site, even CSR will not be able to look up current prices for you as they [apparently] can only see the same thing that you can see.  This totally sucks !

I took a tween on a cruise both when she was eligible for the teen program and after she was no longer young enough to participate but too young to drink.
Granted she didn't have a sibling in the program but she never took to the teen hangout thing.  
On the subsequent cruise she did want some independence which was hard on me.  Suddenly the ship was 18 times larger than it had been in the past.  When she didn't always answer her texts right away it got a little bigger.  She didn't want to hangout with me, I get that, but it's very hard to let them go off on their own even if it is just to the gym.  
In the end it worked out fine despite a few more silver hairs.  
You know your kid better than anyone here.  There is no one answer that applies for all tweens.

@LizzyBee23 @RickinSTL Thank you for your service!

Being the hot chick had its advantages?

When you discover a blog but find out you have to read it.

Please don't get her started...

Was onboard in Dec20. Can confirm it is still there and the menu is accurate. 
The noodles may be decent by American standard, but it is just edible by Asian standard. 

Yum!

You have an odd level name, how many posts do you need for that???