Things have changed a lot since WDW opened. Many states no longer have mask mandates and businesses are open at 100%. capacity. I haven't worn a mask in over a month. Even WDW is starting to relax restrictions. When I went to WDW last Summer there weren't a lot of options. Every place I could have gone had restrictions. That's not the case anymore. Getting on a cruise ship with these restrictions would feel like taking a step backwards.well in a few weeks in The UK people will be doing this. It will be interesting to see if peoples opinions will change once they see all the videos of people back on DCL , on The Magic. It kinda reminds me of all the negativity before WDW reopened, how everyone was like oh noooo, thats not what a Disney vacation is, but now that its beeen open for months, its not that much of an issue
I truly hope cruises are more relaxed than what I am hearing although I would not be surprised if they are strict. WDW will need to be much more relaxed across the board before we can even hope that DCL is relaxed at allThings have changed a lot since WDW opened. Many states no longer have mask mandates and businesses are open at 100%. capacity. I haven't worn a mask in over a month. Even WDW is starting to relax restrictions. When I went to WDW last Summer there weren't a lot of options. Every place I could have gone had restrictions. That's not the case anymore. Getting on a cruise ship with these restrictions would feel like taking a step backwards.
Things have changed a lot since WDW opened. Many states no longer have mask mandates and businesses are open at 100%. capacity. I haven't worn a mask in over a month. Even WDW is starting to relax restrictions. When I went to WDW last Summer there weren't a lot of options. Every place I could have gone had restrictions. That's not the case anymore. Getting on a cruise ship with these restrictions would feel like taking a step backwards.
I'm expecting WDW to drop the outdoor mask requirement in the next few months. I could be wrong, but if they follow the "science" then they should.I truly hope cruises are more relaxed than what I am hearing although I would not be surprised if they are strict. WDW will need to be much more relaxed across the board before we can even hope that DCL is relaxed at all
I don't see why what's going on in Europe should apply to cruises out of the U.S.well for the rest of the world, specifically Europe and The UK, theses restrictions are in line with current land based restrictions. USA is far ahead, so what you see as taking a step backward, is actually our day to day life. My guess is that USA is so far ahead of the rest of the world, that these restrictions will be kept by DCL until Europe and other countries catch up.
Lol...I hope so as I am planning to go in December. Only reason I booked is that I assumed it would..or I should say SHOULD be mostly normal by thenI'm expecting WDW to drop the outdoor mask requirement in the next few months. I could be wrong, but if they follow the "science" then they should.
Don't take my word for it but if I am not mistaken, sitting in the hot tub with someone else than your own travel party is forbidden.
Honestly, I think it was a bad idea to let any info come out on this matter before the CDC has made an agreement with the cruise lines... Circumstances and rules could change at anytime and we still don't have a date where sailings will resume...
Bahamas just announced that vaccinated guests don't have to present a negative PCR test and no mask on CocoCay.
Why would they do that? I hope their health minister knows that vaccinated people can still be carriers for the virus and be asymptomatic. Bill Maher for example.
I'm sure they do, and also that they are less likely to transmit to others. If transmissions shoot up from vaccinated individuals I'm sure they would clamp back down on testing requirements and masking.
3 new studies came out the end of last week supporting that vaccinated people are a low risk to spread to others, that’s part of why the CDC has shifted.Well, we wouldn’t know if we are talking about the USA. CDC recently announced they’re no longer tracking positive covid infections by vaccinated people UNLESS they’re hospitalized or die.
Here’s the link if you want to read and see the most recent chart before they decided to make the change.
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/health-departments/breakthrough-cases.html
I think it’s inconsistent to say over the past year that one should employ multiple mitigation techniques because they could be asymptotic and spread it to several folks, but now it doesn’t matter if you’re asymptomatic because you’ve been vaccinated. You’re still potentially a carrier. And now they’re not even going to track it anymore, so no one will have hard numbers to look back on going forward.
3 new studies came out the end of last week supporting that vaccinated people are a low risk to spread to others, that’s part of why the CDC has shifted.
Prior they were working on the possibility it could still be spread easily because they just didn’t know for sure and some other infectious diseases have shown that ability. Now that it is beginning to be better understood about this virus, adjustments are being made. It’s still an evolving situation.
I don't have a link to the studies that they mentioned, but the emerging consensus is that vaccines are effective at preventing the infection entirely, so they also prevent transmission. In the US studies, the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines were ~90% effective at preventing symptomatic infection, and 80% effective at preventing asymptomatic infection.Do you have a link to these studies, I haven’t seen anything about them.
Are they saying vaccinated people have a low chance of spreading, or that most vaccinated people are asymptomatic, therefore a lower rate of spread? Which would suggest, asymptomatic people aren’t really spreading it.
The underlying studies are linked at the site I posted above for your perusal--plenty of data out there for you to review on your own.I would like to read the studies, and not take someone’s words for it.
8 vaccinated players from the Yankees just tested positive. They are all asymptomatic. Even if they weren't vaccinated chances are most of them would be asymptomatic or have mild symptoms since they are all young and healthy. I think it's too early to know how well the vaccines work. I want them to work because I'd like to cruise next year.I would like to read the studies, and not take someone’s words for it.
The CDC isn’t even tracking positive cases of vaccinated individuals anymore unless it results in hospitalization or death. Do you know what that means? They’ll be able to say, we have no data that suggests vaccinated individuals are contracting covid-19.
Even Fauci just admitted that 40% of his staff at the NIH is unvaccinated against covid-19. The question is why?