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Cruise industry salty over CDC plan to keep travelers safe from COVID at sea:
The cruise industry is rather salty about the latest federal guidance for safe pandemic sailing, calling it "burdensome" and "unworkable. "
The new guidance is an updated phase of the Framework for Conditional Sailing Order (CSO), released April 2 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While it does not mandate vaccinations for all staff and cruisegoers, it does recommend the shots and requires added layers of health measures to try giving any onboard COVID-19 outbreaks the heave-ho—which is exceedingly difficult to do on the tightly packed, highly social vessels.
Among several changes, the guidance requires cruise operators to increase how frequently they report the number of COVID-19 cases onboard, upping reporting from weekly to daily. It also requires cruise lines to implement new routine testing for crew members. Additionally, the guidance requires that cruise lines have agreements set up with port authorities and local health authorities to ensure that, in the event of an outbreak, there will be coordination and infrastructure necessary to safely quarantine, isolate, and treat passengers and crew on land.
Once those requirements are met, cruise operators can run mock cruises with volunteer passengers and, if all goes well, apply for a "Conditional Sailing Certificate."
In a statement released Monday, the prominent industry trade group Cruise Lines International Association released a statement calling the new guidance "unduly burdensome, largely unworkable."
The CLIA claims the health guidance "deprives US workers from participating in the economic recovery" and provides "no discernable path forward or timeframe for resumption" of cruises originating in the country. The group ended its statement by urging the Biden administration to "consider the ample evidence that supports lifting the CSO this month to allow for the planning of a controlled return to service this summer."
(Score: 2) by VLM on Thursday April 08 2021, @12:51PM (1 child)
Kind of antisemitic given who those people invariably are. May as well just say you don't like pushy Jews, everyone else certainly feels the same way.
There seems to be a great sorting going on. People who insist everyone must wear the face-kippah are accumulating in more left wing areas and states and the more right wing states are business as usual.
The economic recovery from covid will not be even, not at all, and it will be skewed strongly against the face-kippah areas. Remember the illness is only like 99.9% survivable in the economically productive demographic groups, so the "free" areas are going to absolutely boom compared to the "unfree" areas.
Also a bit of an assumption to assume holier than thou people have a job or school to attend. Lots of NEET and welfare types in that crowd.
Its easy for me to live in a youthful suburb where the kids have been in school for seven months and nobody per the CDC is getting sick because we're all healthy (presumably still getting infected but asymtomatic?) vs the sick people in the cities locked down and dying at a higher rate. But for something at a large scale like cruise industry, it'll be weird.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 08 2021, @06:00PM
LOL
"Kinda anti-semitic... and I AGREE!"
Dumbest dog whistle of 2021. So far