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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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Norovirus is far more common on land than at sea. The only reason you here about it at sea is they are required to report to the feds. Out of 15,000+ cruises a year, they might have 5 outbreaks a year, maybe 10 in a particularly bad year but they all make the news, they don't write about other 99.9% of cruises with no outbreak or write (except maybe a county newsletter) about outbreaks at your grocery store salad bar, school cafeteria, buffet, stadium, movie theatre...etc. Also the cruise ship personnel are constantly sanitizing and are well trained how to do it. Homer at your local restaurant is probably using the same "cleaning" rag to wipe the counters at when he started 4 years ago and maybe washes it every month whether it needs it or not!
If you don't feel safe on a cruise ship, by all means stay on land for your piece of mind but if you eat at any of the places I mentioned, you are already taking a much higher risk than on a cruise ship, albeit a less publicized one.
I hope all stay healthy and happy.
Looking forward to my steamship cruise in September with 300 or so other 100% vaccinated fellow passengers and crew.