800 passengers on the Majestic Princess have COVID.

[tblue37]

Link to tweet

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.

[StarryNite]

1. Oh no!

Yes, it's still the pandemic and the deniers are putting more people at risk.

[BlackSkimmer]

2. Biden himself said the pandemic is over.

[pandr32]

5. That was unfortunate.

[BlackSkimmer]

6. Unfortunate?

Hmm.

Has he changed his mind?

[pandr32]

12. I don't know if he has changed his mind.

I mean it is unfortunate Biden went ahead and said the pandemic is over.

[StarryNite]

7. Yes he did but he was wrong on that.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

11. I agree with Biden. Now it's an endemic, controlled and not near as fatal with vaccines.

If this was two years ago, the hospitals at port would be overflowing with the sick and dying.

Still, it’s really stupid to pack human sardines in an endemic, virus mutation fans love that.

[crimycarny]

20. And antivirals as well

I’ve known several people now who have gotten COVID and took PAXLOVID, including my 24-year old son. In all cases symptoms remained mild and on average by day 3 of taking PAXLOVID symptoms were almost non-existent. None had rebound COVID. All were vaxxed and boosted. Ages varied from the youngest being my son to the oldest being a friend’s mom who was in her 80’s. My son tested negative for COVID by day 7. Not sure of the others.

Another friend and his entire family just got over COVID. Parents in their 50’s, kids in their 20’s. All were vaxxed and boosted. None took PAXLOVID. Their symptoms were much worse including fever and persistent cough over 2 weeks after first testing positive (nothing major, more of just an annoying dry “tickle” type cough). None even close to hospitalization (thanks vaccines!) but their symptoms were definitely much worse and lasted longer than those I know who took PAXLOVID.

All of the above is anecdotal of course. And there is still a ton of confusion amongst the medical community as to who qualifies for PAXLOVID. There is no longer a shortage but some doctors are still refusing to prescribe unless high risk, which is no longer necessary.

So with both vaccines and effective antivirals I agree with Biden as well.

[Emile]

3. My wife lost her second right-wing cousin to covid last week.

Yes it is still around.

[Ananda62]

4. Yes

My sister lost her brother-in-law (a Trumper) to COVID in late October. He was 73 and only had one vaccine (J&J) back in 2021.

I also learned that the 40-something year old owner of my auto repair shop died of COVID. He was unvaccinated.

[Sky Jewels]

8. Right wingers are used to bullying and blustering their way through everything.

They're done with the pandemic and they expect the pandemic to be done with them. Funnily enough, science doesn't work like that.

[bdamomma]

30. well

they are science deniers too....crap, some Americans have really went over the cliff.

[Jim__]

9. Deja vu - all over again.

[live love laugh]

10. I was just looking at a cruise for next summer. Never 👎 mind.

[helpisontheway]

13. Right. I have a future cruise credit that expires in December. They can keep it! Nt

[Lonestarblue]

14. Even a free ticket could not get me on a ship with 4,600 people in close quarters.

What ever happened to requiring passengers to be fully vaccinated?

[moonscape]

26. That wouldn't be enough to get me on board!

[LiberalFighter]

15. There needs to be a MAGA cruise.

[PurgedVoter]

19. Q needs to organize one.

[Traildogbob]

21. Sailing on a red wave.

[LiberalFighter]

32. Paint a red wave on the cruise ship?

[Sky Jewels]

25. ...

[moonscape]

27. Let's do a gofundme for Congressional MAGAs

[zeusdogmom]

16. There is nothing - nothing - that could entice me to take a cruise

Even in good times a cruise ship is a giant festering petri dish of communicable diseases. Obviously my personal opinion.

[Vinca]

17. Everything old is new again.

[Traildogbob]

22. Not everything

I still feel old. But, I do feel A NEW hope for our country.

[Edim]

18. "All passengers and crew required negative COVID tests before joining the ship,

...and passengers over the age of 12 and crew needed to be fully vaccinated."

Interesting (if true).

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/cruise-ship-with-estimated-800-covid-cases-to-dock-in-sydney-20221111-p5bxml.html

[StarryNite]

34. I wonder what kind of COVID tests?

The rapid tests have a lot of false negatives.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

23. I'm kind of surprised they had resources on board to test 800 (plus) people to confirm covid.

Something fishy about this cruise.

[grantcart]

24. Isn't it technically "endemic" now?

[czarjak]

28. MAGA Moron told me, "Biggest hoax since that 1939 broadcast of "War of the World"...

"It'll be over in two weeks". March 23, 2021. Can't get a follow-up for some reason.

[bdamomma]

33. such deniers

are they saying that all those Americans who died was a hoax too???

[drmeow]

38. If they will believe and say

that Sandy Hook was a hoax then they will believe and say that all the people who have died of COVID is a hoax! I've read stories about people who died of COVID who denied it was real to the very end!

[beaglelover]

29. Well at least they are all vaccinated so they should be OK.

[liberal_mama]

37. Maybe they will be okay, maybe they won't, a lot of elderly and unhealthy people cruise

My fully vaccinated/boosted and otherwise healthy father in his early 70s got infected with Covid at the hospital where he was being treated for an injury (he was doing cement work and injured himself) and he died of Covid there 3 weeks ago. Thousands of Americans are still dying of Covid every week. Our family is devastated.

[Deep State Witch]

31. Once One Person Gets It

You're all fucked.

That's how we got COVID back in May. We were vaxxed and boosted, and require to have a negative test before boarding our cruise. However, some of the entertainers had it, so much that they had to cancel performances of shows. We also think that it may have happened on one of the Islands we were on, St. Kitt's. The week after we came back, the CDC raised the alert level for St. Kitt's to high. Within a week of getting off of the boat and going home, about half of the people in our conference that was held on the cruise reported testing positive.

[appalachiablue]

35. K/R Thanks

[spinbaby]

36. You couldn't get me on a cruise ship

I have an acquaintance who leans right politically, but did get the first round of vaccinations. Then he got Covid, which somehow “proved" vaccinations don’t work. He and wife went on a cruise and caught Covid. She died.

[Kennah]

39. I thought it was a myth