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| I will never understand the desire to be a guest on a floating hotel. |
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| quote: Originally posted by markj:
I will never understand the desire to be a guest on a floating hotel petri dish .
The pathogen before COVID-19 was norovirus. I can't imagine that's fun.
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| Wtf.
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| quote: Four elderly passengers on board Holland America's MS Zaandam have died on the cruise ship that is stuck in limbo during the coronavirus pandemic.
The ship is currently carrying 138 people who have complained of flu-like symptoms, which are similar to coronavirus symptoms. Two people have tested positive for coronavirus.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with their families and we are doing everything we can to support them during this difficult time," Holland America Line said of the four who had died of undisclosed causes in a statement shared by spokesperson Erik Elvejord.
Elvejord added that Holland America Line couldn't share whether those passengers had reported coronavirus symptoms due to privacy regulations.
Those on the ship who are sick include 53 passengers and 85 crew members. There are 1,243 passengers and 586 crew members on the ship, including 305 Americans.
More on their situation and efforts to get passengers off of the ship. What a disaster. https://www.usatoday.com/story...se-limbo/2927031001/
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| quote: Originally posted by markj:
I will never understand the desire to be a guest on a floating hotel.
My parents and I took a little three-day cruise once, between Miami and Nassau. That was fun. I was twelve. They had slot machines on board that we could use once the ship passed the three mile limit. I spent lots of quality time in the dime and quarter slots putting my "clad" coins in and saving all the silver ones that popped out. This was 1968.  Haven't been on a cruise since. Have no desire to be on a floating petri dish pretending to be a city. When in the Caribbean, I see those things come and go and wonder why anyone would choose that as their vacation rather than staying on the island, sampling local culture, and spending quality time in (and under) the water and hiking in the back country. |
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| We love cruises. A great way to see a lot of places without packing up and checking in and out all the time. I was going to say this might be a longer cruise already at sea. I wish them well.
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| Beyond the current problem, cruise ships deposit thousands of gallons of waste debris daily IN OUR OCEANS. They should be banned.
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| Good point about the timeline, Nina. It just seems like the virus has been with us forever. I looked up when the cases in my town were. I would have sworn they were back in early February but they were announced March 2nd. An eternity. Or so it seems.
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