Vaccines to cruise. CCL needs to join and get back to cruising!

[harkinmr]

11 hours ago, iceman93 said:

Your "option one" isn't necessarily delusion.  The pandemic, all but the fearmongering, is over already.  Kids and parents are enjoying pool areas at community centers and resorts all over the country.  Airplanes have been filling the skies for months, and all the seats are full as well.  People have had enough with unnecessary lockdowns, and most folks have either already had COVID (whether they know it or not) or are in various stages of getting vaccinated.  So CCL could just be waiting for government bureaucrats to catch up with the reality rather than jumping on the fear bandwagon.

Absolutely not true.  Just because people and local/state governments have chosen to throw caution to the wind and behave as if the pandemic is no longer in play does not establish that fact.  "Most" people and businesses with common sense are still taking proper precautions.  Those that aren't, well I've got no justification for that.  Our curve of infections plateaued a couple of weeks ago and has steadily increased.  The variants are affecting most every state.  The numbers here in the US (as well as in other parts of the world) do not lie.  Simply because people choose to walk around with blinders on does not prove anything.

[nocl]

14 hours ago, iceman93 said:

Your "option one" isn't necessarily delusion.  The pandemic, all but the fearmongering, is over already.  Kids and parents are enjoying pool areas at community centers and resorts all over the country.  Airplanes have been filling the skies for months, and all the seats are full as well.  People have had enough with unnecessary lockdowns, and most folks have either already had COVID (whether they know it or not) or are in various stages of getting vaccinated.  So CCL could just be waiting for government bureaucrats to catch up with the reality rather than jumping on the fear bandwagon.

You might mention that to the families of the 5000 that have died from Covid19 in the US during the past week.  Or for that matter the 490,000 that tested positive in the US during the last week.

 

The vaccines are certainly helping, and we have the tools to improve things and end this, but it is not over yet.  Not in the US, not in Europe, certainly not in the rest of the world with 80,000 deaths in the last week and the death counts rising.

[nocl]

19 hours ago, Mary229 said:

We can only know what is behind us.  Speculating about the future needs to be done by scientists who are willing to follow accepted statistical modeling and using knowledge of viral progressions.    We have far to many people who may be scientists but in all the wrong fields offering up papers and studies which have not followed the peer reviewed methods.  
 

I am sorry to be so blunt but any science speculation could be considered fear mongering.  It is one thing to guess what the regulations concerning a harmless leisure activity might be it is quite another to speculate on the course of a pandemic. 

Usually one uses the term fear mongering when they do not have a good response so they choose to attack the motivations of the person posting.

 

Projections and estimates are very much a part of science, for that matter as part of business as well.