800 passengers on the Majestic Princess have COVID. You can’t pack 4600 passengers on a boat during a pandemic and expect this not to happen. Yes, it’s still the pandemic.
@JReinerMD
It’s 3 years later doctor. Covid is not going away. People can assess their own risk and most will choose to live fulfilling and active lives despite your incessant and anti-scientific fear mongering (and that of the rest of “public health” — co-opted entirely by big pharma).
@JReinerMD
It’s likely much higher than 800. They cannot make anyone test. The only people who tested positive were those with symptoms who were proactive and asked to be tested. It’s probably triple that number.
@JReinerMD
@gtconway3d
I cruised a year ago and this last February. Masking inside was mandatory, vaccination mandatory, and precruise monitored testing mandatory. No problems. Felt safer on the ship than at the grocery. Most mandates are gone, thus the problem.
@JReinerMD
The question is: what’s the alternative, knowing we’ll never end the “pandemic” as you define it? Never cruise again? End plane flights? End all social activities? Many/most of us would rather be dead than end these activities. It’s a personal choice. My cruise booked for April.
@JReinerMD
People are willing to cruise. People are willing to work on the ships.
Would you rather decimate an entire industry that provides hundreds of thousands of jobs?
I’m afraid I know your answer. 🫤
@YouAreLobbyLud
And in NEW ZEALAND they could have stocked up with VIRALEZE for every passenger and crew who could have legally brought personal supply into Australia. Might have been a hell of a lot cheaper than the over 70yr olds being able to buy $1200 Pfizer Paxlovid at SHIP PHARMACY PRICE