How bad is it? Positive tests

[mousefan73]

Been reading on various pages / sites how lately so many are testing positive. Like 200 at port on the med sailings. And in FB groups people testing positive at home precruise. I have a cruise next month and getting so nervous. More so than my other pandemic cruises.

Has it gotten really bad now? Or just rumors?

 

[Karin1984]

Yes, the current variant is more contagious, so it seems. Or it is not so well detected in the current tests
Best is to start isolating and masking the week or two weeks before your cruise.

 

[DMMarla07860]

more people are testing positive. The variant is more contagious so not surprised. My dad and I moving our cruise to February 2023 because of it tbh. I have Lupus so best for us to

 

[cvjw]

Lots of crew in isolation with covid right now. Many people testing positive onboard and after their cruises. Seems to be the worst with regards to covid right now with omicron.

 

[ladyofthetramp]

Ugh...we don't sail until early September. Hopefully we were exposed to this variant when we were at Disney in early June-but who knows. My husband tested positive when we returned. When we are a month out, will test weekly-so if we do test positive we can get an exemption. We will also test before "the test" to cruise the day before. Try and lay low, although they are now saying you can pick up this variant outside. I am not sure I can isolate myself to that extent again and keep my mental health-cruise or no cruise. Hoping for the best. Between tropical storm worry and covid... Seriously

 

[DMMarla07860]

Lots of crew in isolation with covid right now. Many people testing positive onboard and after their cruises. Seems to be the worst with regards to covid right now with omicron.

I don’t think it’s anymore bad as get it. Minus more contagious. So positive there. Of crew I know who got it they didn’t had that bad of symptoms

 

[Husker Mike]

My wife caught it two weeks ago, and after it ran through our family over the fourth, I finally got a clear test this morning. The latest variant appears to be even more contagious. It wasn't too bad... sore throat, some coughing, a couple days of a fever and a general bleah feeling for 3-4 days. Worst part is that it forced us to cancel a summer vacation trip.

 

[cvjw]

Ugh...we don't sail until early September. Hopefully we were exposed to this variant when we were at Disney in early June-but who knows. My husband tested positive when we returned. When we are a month out, will test weekly-so if we do test positive we can get an exemption. We will also test before "the test" to cruise the day before. Try and lay low, although they are now saying you can pick up this variant outside. I am not sure I can isolate myself to that extent again and keep my mental health-cruise or no cruise. Hoping for the best. Between tropical storm worry and covid... Seriously

It appears you can catch the next omicron variant only 4 weeks after having a prior omicron infection. Doubt your infection in early June will offer you any protection for your September cruise.

 

[n2mm]

I won’t do pre WDW visits anymore if I’m sailing. Yes, I was positive too and extremely cautious. I will only do 2 nights before cruise, so now arrive on Thursday for a Saturday cruise.

 

[flipperjune09]

We sail in a couple weeks and 2/4 of us had Covid over the 4th. We are still testing the other 2 every few days. Our 90 day recovery exemption ends Thursday. We are laying super low the next 2 weeks....fingers crossed.

 

[auntlynne]

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[ajgardner]

(I don’t think this breaks posting rules about Covid. It’s not about laws and regulations.)

Nearly 2.5 years into it and still only about 1 in 4 affected.

I am double boosted, take immune suppressants for an autoimmune disease. I wore a mask when required and sometimes just in case when in stores. But basically doing my normal routine of shopping (don‘t go to work or activities with crowds - but do dine in restaurants). I’ve been on 4 cruises (with associated flights), WDW a few trips and some other car trips. And I don’t go around wiping surfaces or using hand sanitizer.

So now I am wondering if there are a bunch of people who just are resistant. Historically, probably true, as they say all of us alive are descendants of those who survived the Plague years.

I would love to know if those who test positive at cruise time have been very careful and finally break out of a protective bubble or it’s just bad timing that they met with a strain against which they were unable to fight.

I hope my luck doesn’t run out just before my next cruise! And for the day no one gets turned away from their vacation.

I am vaccinated with booster but take no extra precautions in my daily life (same goes with my family members). I went on a mother-daughter trip for 5 nights and tested positive 5 days after returning but my daughter was fine. I had symptoms for 3 days before I tested (I thought it was very mild allergies) and spent a great deal of time with my family (even sharing food and drinks). I isolated as soon as I found out I was positive but we all assumed it would hit all 4 of us. No one else got it (they all tested every other day for 10 days just to be sure). It definitely feels like some people are resistant. Funny thing is, out of the 4 of us I’m typically the healthiest one with rarely getting colds and other sicknesses.

 

[insureman]

Lots of crew in isolation with covid right now. Many people testing positive onboard and after their cruises. Seems to be the worst with regards to covid right now with omicron.

Where is this information coming from?

 

[DMMarla07860]

Where is this information coming from?

I follow quite a few and a lot are quarantined

 

[insureman]

I follow quite a few and a lot are quarantined

It can't be that many or they wouldn't be able to operate the ship properly.

 

[Msprxy]

We had a wonderful cruise and on second day back home, I tested positive. I don't know if it was from someone onboard, someone at Cozumel or at the rest stops. Either way, we had such a great time, we do not regret going. Such great memories. Covid for me has been very flu-like. If I could go back, the only thing I would have done differently is taken a mask for the few times we were in close quarters (getting off the ship at Castaway or lining up for last day breakfast) and I definitely would have worn it at the rest stops on the turnpike.

 

[MamaMermaid]

It's bad. We just got off the Fantasy on Saturday. At least 2 charter buses of families were taken to be quarantined for 10 days and that's just what I saw. Lots more disembarked with COVID (hadn't told Disney or did but it was the last day and Disney told them to just mask and disembark). Our FB group for the sailing has lots of people positive right now. And grumpy. 1 out of 4 of us tested positive with it the next year. For the record, we JUST had COVID in early May... we thought we'd have some more protection but with this new variant, I guess not! Our servers told us that the crew on the Fantasy was hit pretty hard recently. The server at a table near ours had "laryngitis" and then never came back... 2 stories were given to two separate families she was serving- she hurt her back and she sprained her ankle.

My 4yo got tested the night before the cruise - the CMs didn't seem to care how good of a job I did with the testing. AND, even worse, if someone in your cabin was positive, you were quarantined BUT the people you were interacting with -- like family in a different cabin -- didn't have to be tested.

Obviously we knew the risks going but dang, I feel like Disney could be more forthcoming with the positivity rate if they're noticing a spike so people can make an informed decision about what they want to do (mask, not attend certain events, etc).

 

[Weedy]

Covid is here

 

[RysMomma]

We go in a month (and I know that that anything can happen in a month) and I was anxious about it, but now, I'm just feeling that this has been postponed twice already and we're going to try to be as safe as possible. We're going to do the masks, try to avoid the really crazy populated areas, and do our best. All ships are going through the same thing at the moment-doing the same testing, the same protocols. I can't blame Disney for any of it.

 

[DMMarla07860]

It can't be that many or they wouldn't be able to operate the ship properly.

No, but I do know quite a few. Definitely not as many to run a ship