Timeline for Is it possible to do a round-the-world trip by train and passenger ship only? Missing link for crossing the Pacific
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| Sep 8, 2021 at 0:43 | comment | added | JonathanReez♦ | @ZachLipton if they restrict the cruise to vaccinated passengers, the odds of a hospitalization being required are about the same as with RSV or flu which were common on ships before. This applies even with the Delta variant. | |
| Sep 8, 2021 at 0:20 | comment | added | Zach Lipton | There's also the practical problem that if COVID spreads throughout a cruise ship, some percentage of the passengers are statistically likely to require advanced medical care (even more so given the typical average age of cruise passengers). The expense, logistics, and safety of evacuating COVID-positive patients at sea and getting them treatment in countries that may already have overwhelmed domestic health systems are enormously complex. | |
| Aug 31, 2021 at 22:59 | comment | added | JonathanReez♦ | @leftaroundabout as for testing - its not bulletproof, not even if you do a test right before boarding due to the virus being undetectable for up to 3 weeks inside the body in extreme cases. | |
| Aug 31, 2021 at 22:55 | comment | added | JonathanReez♦ | @leftaroundabout the problem with COVID is that once an infection starts, it could take many weeks to spread around the ship - you won't get 100% of the people onboard infected at once. So the only way to restart cruises would be to stop treating COVID infections as something out of the ordinary. Basically how we've treated flu infections on board pre-2019. Its a really difficult transition psychologically so it might take a while, though its inevitable given that COVID is an endemic virus. | |
| Aug 31, 2021 at 22:48 | comment | added | leftaroundabout | You may be right about the reality of cruise travel – but shouldn't countries actually prefer people entering via long-distance cruise, rather than via flights? It's a form of un-breakable quarantine, and if the passengers are tested both before and during the journey it's almost guaranteed that any virus mutation would be detected before reaching the destination country. In case of flights, neither testing nor vaccination can achieve this. | |
| Aug 31, 2021 at 10:10 | comment | added | alamar | International rail travel is also that. I'm not sure if there are any trains running between Poland and Belarus ATM. | |
| Aug 30, 2021 at 9:26 | comment | added | Hobbamok | Xnero's answer actually linked a cruise poised to start on April 2022 (though it remains to be seen whether they pull through) | |
| Aug 29, 2021 at 23:42 | comment | added | Zach Lipton | Yeah I wouldn't hold out particularly high hopes of many of these advertised cruises actually operating next year. | |
| Aug 29, 2021 at 23:32 | history | answered | JonathanReez♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |