smokeybandit

I can definitely see the major cruise lines re-evaluating their reliance on American home ports the longer the CDC continues their embargo. Maybe not as much short term, but definitely longer term.

Reinfection has been proven in an extreme minority of cases, and even then it's not conclusive if they ever had covid in the first incidence. Plus there are recent studies showing covid antibodies last at least 6 months, if not longer.

And they pay for it through federal money

But all don't have to be vaccinated, just 18+ (which is the correct policy to have if vaccines are going to play into cruising)

Surprisingly, the word "mask" does not appear anywhere in the FAQ https://creative.rccl.com/Sales/Royal/Deployment/2021_2022/AD_FAQs.pdf

Good to know, though it just discusses Royal Suite ships, not run-of-the-mill suite ships

So if the dates and prices work out, I could cancel my other July cruise (which I've put no money into except FCCs) and book Adventure without any extra change fees?

I would imagine fares will be sky high for these cruises

Good news and bad news at the same time.

The state-level vaccination you basically just put your name on a list and wait until they notify you (my wife got notified the first day she was eligible). The pharmacy-level vaccination program is more a direct signup

I'm eligible today for a vaccine but none of the signup websites for my state have been updated to allow my group to register.

CDC is going to great lengths to keep the cruise ships out of the water

I've used a lot of promo codes. Just, none of them ever work.

Yeah, good point. That other site tends to have less favorable outcomes for this type of thread topic.

I was expecting this to be an anti-travel agent thread.

So does the USA.

Moosehead Beer. But seriously I doubt the "loan" is ever repaid. When will Canada suddenly have a surplus of 1.5 million doses that the USA would then be able to use?

Yes, several European countries halted it over blood clot fears, but there hasn't been anything actually linking the two yet. But the AZ vaccine wasn't going to be used in the USA any time soon

USA giving 1.5 million of the AZ vaccine to Canada https://www.axios.com/vaccine-astrazeneca-us-doses-canada-mexico-45c3aea8-4995-4ceb-a6cd-fb64d819fa8b.html

Sign me up. I so look forward to when school and work calendars align that I can take more than a 7 day cruise.

You have upwards of 10 people actively adding to their plates at a time at a given station. There will be no room to have enough staff to be filling that many plates at a time

The odds of getting covid from a buffet is amazingly low (unless everyone in line licks the tongs). If people thought lines were long before, it's going to be real bad now.

That's what I think of every single time I see this thread.

There's also a still undetermined portion of the population that has a pre-existing cross immunity to covid. Studies have suggested it being anywhere from 20-50% Also though there's mixing between those vaccinated and those who had covid. And the same for those with a cross immunity, too.

The funny thing is, especially in hindsight, how cruising WASN'T a "petri dish" for covid. Look at the poster child for anti-cruising. The Diamond Princess. Despite a lot more people having covid upon boarding than originally thought (though one single guy is blamed for all of it) and despite such an old age of cruisers on that ship (69), and despite having no mitigation/treatment/testing protocols on board, they still only had a couple hundred symptomatic cases. People are worried now about an entire ship getting covid, which is pretty much impossible based on that.