Deregulating the cruise ships
As I've mentioned before, my wife is a travel agent who books people on cruises and I often tag along.
Last October when I joined her as she led a small group of brave seafarers around the Mediterranean, we couldn't have been safer.
Though all 600 of us had to be vaccinated, we still had to be tested before we got on the ship in Athens and before and after we visited most ports.
On our boat the one and only person who tested positive for COVID was asymptomatic but was quickly quarantined.
The strict “COVID-19 risk mitigation program" that the CDC imposed on the cruise ship industry is not enforced anywhere else.
Not on airplanes. Not in hotels. Not in supermarkets. Not at Alabama-Georgia football games in front of 100,000 screaming and maskless college kids.
If the CDC did impose its cruise ship standards on hotels, no one would go to a hotel. No one would ride airplanes, trains and buses, either.
Today, with omicron racing across the country and infecting millions of the vaxxed and un-vaxxed alike, it looks like everyone on land and sea will soon get the highly contagious but virtually harmless variant – or has it already.
I guarantee that if you tested everyone who checks into a hotel or boards an airplane tonight anywhere in the world, someone will have COVID.
Ditto if you tested everyone for COVID in your neighborhood supermarket, or at an NBA game, or in a hospital emergency room.
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