5 or 150 – somewhere in there
Also speaking of cruise ships…
On the fourth day of a seven-day Mexican Riviera cruise, Jesse Suphan and other passengers onboard the Carnival Cruise Line’s Panorama were denied entry at the port of Puerto Vallarta, because of the number of onboard coronavirus cases. That was the first Mr. Suphan heard about the virus spreading on the ship.
“The captain announced that five people had tested positive for Covid and were quarantining,” Mr. Suphan, a 39-year-old revenue cycle manager, recalled in a telephone interview. “But, then, talking to the crew, they told me there were between 100 and 150 crew members who also tested positive, but the captain didn’t mention that.”
Well naturally not. That might have a harmful effect on the cruise industry. The cruise industry must be protected.
Two days later, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told Americans to avoid travel on cruise ships, regardless of their vaccination status. The advisory, the agency’s highest coronavirus warning, came in response to a surge in cases in recent weeks, caused by the spread of the contagious Omicron variant.
There’s also the fact that cruise ships burn 80 thousand gallons of fuel a day and hello global warming? But let’s not talk about that, it’s not cheerful.
But even as case numbers rise, and criticism mounts about the safety of cruising and over cruise line protocols in reporting cases to passengers, ships keep sailing and guests keep embarking…
And 80 thousand gallons of fuel per day per ship keep getting added to the total but never mind, we still have a few good years left, maybe.
Most major cruise lines do not publicly announce the number of coronavirus cases on board their ships, but they are required to submit daily figures to the C.D.C. Currently, the agency is monitoring more than 90 cruise ships, because of reported cases that have reached the agency’s threshold for an investigation. (An investigation is undertaken when a certain number of cases is reported among a percentage of passengers.)
More than 90. How many cruise ships are there in total???
323.
https://www.cruisemummy.co.uk/cruise-industry-statistics-facts/
On a warming planet. It’s grotesque. Criminally grotesque.
Revenue cycle manager? What the hell is that? The trend these days seems to be titles of all kinds – work titles, play titles, personal titles (especially related to gender) must be incomprehensible. In short, no one must actually be able to figure out what you really do. My title is straightforward: I am a Biology instructor, which describes my job pretty well (but ignores the fact that I also teach Physical Science, GIS, and Theatre, but who wants a title long enough to include all that?)
On the subject of cruise ships: the willingness of people to get on a cruise ship in spite of dangers to their own health is all the evidence we need that they are not going to abandon cruise ships because of danger to the environment. They simply don’t care.
“Cunard is one of the oldest cruise lines with a history dating back to 1840. On the earliest cruises, cows were kept on board to supply fresh milk before being slaughtered and eaten on the final day of the voyage.”
I’m no militant vegetarian, but I have spent time around dairy cows, and if this is true, it is particularly disgusting. I could have done without this little factoid. :(
Exploitation on every level.
(Thanks for the link PJH @1)
“cruise ships burn 80 thousand gallons of fuel a day”
Most of them. There are the Russian icebreakers that offer cruises to the north pole that are nuclear powered.
Candidate for the B Ark?
O_O quietly adds to bucket list
I know. There are much smaller cruise ships that go to Antarctica, or near it, and those are…well they’re still a luxury, still optional, but there is no other way for the general public to go there. It’s not like hopping a cruise ship to Venice ffs.