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Originally Posted by Escape Artist
Cruise ships are germ incubators. This is one industry that shouldn't have come back. Even before COVID, they were the source of every nasty virus out there. Remember all those ships quarantined because of outbreaks of Norovirus? That happened often, as well as other nasty diseases. My friend went on a cruise to Hawaii and got so sick that on the way back the ship had to make an emergency dock in Mexico so she could be taken off the ship in a stretcher and taken by ambulance first to a Mexican hospital and then across the border to an American one.
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We watched a Coast Guard helicopter send a cage down to pick up a guy who had a heart attack the night before, because there was no helipad on the ship or a spot large enough for the helicopter to land. That was during a storm on our way home from Bermuda our last cruise, a few years ago. His wife was still on the ship when he was air-lifted to the hospital in the States. We found out later that he died.
We STILL want to go on another cruise.