Yeah, about 40% of the country would be for that. A lot less than that if you include kids and some will balk if they have to vaccinate their young children. How many of those 40% cruise or can afford to cruise? Can cruise lines be profitable eliminating 60% of Americans? I guess we shall see.
Our district kept seating charts from classrooms to the cafeteria to track who had to quarantine from exposure. So they didn't shut down entire classes, although it might have seemed that way if the positivity rates in a classroom were high enough. And it's certainly not over, even though things are much better here. My kids just finished their spring terms, and each had teachers out. Some parents just kept their kids home for the last few days because there were enough other kids that had it, that the potential for exposure wasn't worth it. (Other than high schoolers, who have finals, not much goes on the last few days for K-8. Middle schoolers would rather miss the last couple of days of nonsense than miss their sports finals!) It's so easy to see kids' clubs causing small outbreaks that seem like low numbers, but in the world of cruising, ANY are too much. Even if they are just exposed, do they end up quarantining in their rooms with their whole families? so messy. It took school districts months to figure out the logistics and rules.
We should know soon (first part of August?) with the Alaska sailings from multiple lines. There is a lot of pent up travel demand and limited supply of cruise cabins, so I would lean towards the ships having enough customers.
Just curious, where does your 40% number come from?
Many parents of kids 12 and older probably aren’t having many more kids and are older and probably not concerned about long term side effects for themselves. There obviously aren’t any studies of long term effects for a vaccine that didn’t exist a year ago - so you can understand the hesitation.
I'm not so sure about that. I'm in my early 40s, and I'm definitely more concerned with the repercussions of covid than the vaccine for myself. I don't think I'm that weird that I had kids in my late 20s, but I have kids in that age group and am definitely not veering toward old age and death LOL.
My kids are 15 and 13 and I’m in my late 40’s. I‘m way more concerned about getting covid than about the vaccine effects (mine were mild). My kids were vaccinated 2 weeks ago tomorrow and I feel much better about them going back to school after three weeks online due to covid numbers where we live. My 13 year old complained of a sore arm (always does after any shot), and my 15 year old had no reaction to the vaccine. In Alberta we don’t have a lot of second doses (8%) but our single doses rise by at least one percent every day. Expected to be 75% single dose vaccinated and 20% double dose by June 18
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Mine are thrilled that they'll be vaccinated before their next school year starts. My 12yo really didn't want to even fly somewhere domestically until he was vaccinated, much less get on a cruise ship.
I feel like this is the perfect example of a fact that can be interpreted differently to support different arguments.
Have you been on the pride. The Itinerars in Europe are Fantastic, but man that ship like you said is gaudy.
