Cruisemad888 Posted September 20, 2020 Report Share Posted September 20, 2020 https://apple.news/AEd-8dKIXQ1-uYr0wpU-N2w Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted September 20, 2020 Report Share Posted September 20, 2020 That story is pure clickbait. "The Carnival Cruise Ship That Spread Coronavirus Around the World" Give me a break. Let's conveniently forget that the virus spread across the world on airplanes, which were never stopped at all and given a free pass for being the primary means of transmission from one country or continent to another. SebagoSue, USFFrank, Neesa and 14 others 13 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twangster Posted September 20, 2020 Report Share Posted September 20, 2020 Here in a landlocked state a senior bridge tournament on February 29 killed 13 and infected dozens more. Contact tracing did not show any cruise ship history. Cruise ships made the world wide news, the seniors who died made the local news. The entire COVID-19 disaster in the NYC area occurred from spread on airplanes from Europe in February and March leading to the spring outbreak. Did the virus spread on cruise ships? Yes. Did the virus spread in churches, schools, airplanes, buses, trains, restaurants, bars and so on? Yes. That's what this virus does - it spreads anywhere that people gather. Yet the media continues to focus on cruise ships because it generates clicks and ad revenue. FManke, cruisellama, USFFrank and 7 others 7 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sk8erguy1978 Posted September 20, 2020 Report Share Posted September 20, 2020 What's worse is the personal stories used for the agenda. Don't get me wrong, I feel for everyone who contracts the virus, especially early on when little was known. I just feel the stories mixed in this article are the reinforcement of why cruise ships are bad and "major" factor in the early spread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twangster Posted September 20, 2020 Report Share Posted September 20, 2020 As I look back and relive early February I was on Ovation of the Seas to New Zealand. When I boarded on Feb. 2nd in Sydney the news was all about the wildfires in Australia. Sydney was in the midst of celebrating the Lunar Festival for the Chinese new year. I first learned about the virus and the outbreak on the Diamond Princess while I sailed around New Zealand. As the cruise progressed discussion of the virus started to be heard around the ship more and more. I enjoyed many conversations in the Concierge Lounge with the concierge. She is from China. She had one more cruise left in her contract and had been onboard for months. The ship started to take the temperature of the crew numerous times during the cruise. They were looking for signs and symptoms of the virus. Near the end of the cruise she told me her mother told her not to go home to China, it was too dangerous. She didn't know what she was going to do and she was trying to extend her contract. It was the mention that ship crew were having their temperature taken on a periodic basis and the timing of the cruise in early February that now comes back to me with greater meaning. What occurs to me now is how Royal Caribbean was taking steps in response to the virus long before this country even started to take notice. At least one cruise line did a better job in the early days of the virus than the U.S.A. did. It wasn't really until early March that the U.S. woke up to the reality of the virus. The response was to panic buy toilet paper. It's easy for the media to point the finger at cruise ships. They are a faceless object. The U.S.A isn't alone with having a slow response to the virus. Many countries around the world were slow to respond. So while the virus was spreading in places like churches and schools around the world somehow cruise ships were supposed to know what the rest of the world did not. For a journalist pointing a finger at churches is a résumé generating event, better not go there. Taking crew temperatures appears to be a minor step yet in hindsight it shows Royal Caribbean had taken notice of the virus and were doing something in response to the virus at least a month before many countries around the world did. The media will never report that. teddy, mjb1127, sk8erguy1978 and 4 others 6 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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