Renate

Waaaytooo, I'm leaving this blog, twice now the posts I've posted have been removed, they both had articles showing how even those vaccinated are coming down with the virus, and I had placed links to articles to back up my statements. I get enough censoring from Facebook, I'm not about to stay in another forum that refuses to allow the truth to be told. Due to the newest email from Royal about the Virgin Islands not allowing their ships to dock with unvaccinated passengers (something I highly suspect was arranged through corrupt officials) my husband and I will be asking for a full refund. It will probably be a very long time, and possibly never again, before anyone in my family sails on a cruise ship.

JasonOasis, your statement assumes that people who don't want to share their medical records in order to cruise want to go to countries that demand only vaccinated people. The Caribbean nations ARE willing to host unvaccinated cruise guests as long as they take a cruise line arranged excursion, that is very clearly stated in the "rules" for unvaccinated guests. Btw, can you explain to me why countries like Great Britain, who has the highest rate of vaccinated citizens, is at this very moment suffering from an explosion of Covid illnesses? https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/25/uk-closely-watched-with-its-vaccine-program-and-surge-in-cases.html

JeffB, we are booked in October, no way are we going to PAY to be treated like second class citizens for refusing to divulge medical information that it is specifically illegal to ask for in the State of Florida. You think the work around is "good accommodation", I say it isn't. We will have to pay hundreds of dollars extra to still be treated like lepers, and those PCR tests aren't even accurate, there's a 30%+ false positive and false negative results for them, not to mention they are painful as hell, and a false positive could ruin the rest of the cruise for us. We're not going to take that chance. If the rules don't change between now and October we will cancel the 2 cruises we have booked and ask for our money back. Btw, my sister works at a doctor's office, they all wear masks all day, they've all been vaccinated, yet they just had an outbreak of Covid in their office, 12 employees got sick all at the same time, one of them a doctor who wears the medical grade N95 masks. Several of them, including my sister ended up in the hospital, so the vaccine doesn't even make the virus "less lethal" or "milder" if you catch a variant of it. https://www.acc.org/latest-in-cardiology/journal-scans/2020/05/18/13/42/variation-in-false-negative-rate-of-reverse

Smokeybandit Then why do you suppose Orlando, on their trolley system for International Drive, have UV sterilizers in all of their trolleys?? LOL, because they just felt like spending thousands of extra dollars?? And please explain why Royal Caribbean had 2 outbreaks of Norovirus in 2019?? (that I can recall/looked up) if their "ventilation" system was so good? Orlando spent the money on the sterilizers to PREVENT viral outbreaks to tourists visiting our city, and so far it's been pretty successful. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/norovirus-outbreak-infects-passengers-royal-caribbean-cruise-ships/

What I would like to know is why hasn't Royal Caribbean installed UV-C sterilizers on their ships?? HEPA does not sterilize, it only removes the virus AFTER it has been through the entire ventilation system. UV-C KILLS the virus, period, and it doesn't have to go through the entire ventilation system to do it. Installing a UV-C sterilizer system would not only prevent COVID outbreaks, it would prevent ANY virus from spreading on their ships.