There's an easy way for cruises to resume from Port of Galveston
There’s a simple solution for cruise lines wanting to resume operations from the Port of Galveston.
That solution is to follow a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guideline allowing the ships to sail if 98 percent of the crew and 95 percent of the passengers are vaccinated against COVID-19 infection.
The other option is for the lines to round up volunteers and stage cruises to prove their protocols can prevent virus transmission even among large numbers of unvaccinated people spending days in the close quarters that shipboard life demands.
The latter method is far more complicated and might end up disproving the merit of those untested protocols.
Cruise fans have protested about the CDC continuing tight restrictions on a resumption of sailing. The message has been something along the lines of “Let’s just do it.”
Read more: https://www.galvnews.com/opinion/editorials/free/article_24f80d14-5eca-56db-9935-f378dbef1f30.html
(Galveston County Daily News)
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Abbott, Patrick, and Paxton seem Hell-bent on imitating Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ bad ideas. Right now DeSantis is blocking so-called “vaccine passports” and take a big guess as to which top three Texas state officials will playing “monkey-see, monkey-do” and copying his incredibly bad example.
