QueenElinor
It's not my fault they're all redheads.
- Joined
- Aug 21, 2012
It's these sudden lockdowns that scare me. I think it very unlikely that kind of thing is going to happen in the US (never say never I guess) but generally the CDC approaches things less heavy-handed, partly because if authorities are heavy-handed, people will start lying and failing to come forward if they're sick.I really want to boom my May cruise as the GT rate have come out, but I'm afraid that being Italian they won't let me board!
Also did you guys hear about then 1000 people in quarantine in an hotel in tenerife because an Italian tested positive...
And that's why I wouldn't go on a big-ship cruise in the near future. The odds are super low of anything really happening, but the consequences if it did are very high. I'd like to think the authorities learned their lesson with the Diamond Princess and Westerdam, but the fact is, the only lesson they likely learned was "Don't let these ships dock at all." The next ship that has a rumored case aboard may not be able to find a port, under any circumstances. Again, it's not the virus that's the problem, it's the reaction to it.
And as a passenger aboard a ship, if I were sick I might not tell anyone. I'd be afraid of the above scenario. So I'd tough it out until I got to port, infecting others along the way.
Quarantines and lockdowns can do far more harm than good, if they're misapplied. I think the lessons learned from the cruise ship problems are not the ones we wish they were.