[quote Mumoftwoinprimary]@Moondust001 - your posts are fascinating. Would you be willing to do an AMA at some point - I’d love to hear more about how it all works.[/quote]
Thank you. Funnily, I was wondering last night if people would be interested in something like that, so yes, I'll start a thread. Ooo, never started a thread before. So exciting!
@MyFuzzyBoy - This is completely warped. Anyone who can’t see this too has been completely conditioned. This is not the world that I want for my children.
If you only knew how totally unconditioned I am. Or how wrong you are.
For those interested in facts and not media conjecture, the OP's quoted source is totally wrong. That's why nobody should be conditioned to believe what they read in the media.
Here's an update on what is actually happening. Neither cruise line have banned unvaccinated people. They never banned unvaccinated people. What they actually said was that Their ships could not be used as floating refugee centres, but could be used as ferries. The reason for this is simple - like many cruise lines their ships are "mothballed". What this means is that they have only skeleton essential crew aboard. They can move the ships, but they have nobody to organise accommodations, food and other resources. So they cannot be used as floating refuge centres. Even if they could have got the crews aboard in time, they wouldn't have the expertise to operate in such a fashion - it would require skills and capacity they don't have to manage these circumstances. So the ship are landing in the north, and are ferrying people - whether vaccinated or unvaccinated - to safe areas.
In some places, hotels are being used as refuge centres. Some of those hotels have said that they only have capacity to take vaccinated people. The reason is because the vast majority of their staff are unvaccinated, and like hotels the world over, not well paid. In tourist season they make more in tips than they do in wages, and they have had neither for a very long time. The hotels have mostly been closed. Re-opening a hotel and bringing in unvaccinated staff without the capacity or expertise to manage vulnerable populations who are also unvaccinated is putting everyone at risk and not sensible at all. That is why the UK, like them and many other countries, closed hotels! The hotels could have simply not re-opened, but they have opened and brought their staff back to support people who need help - they do not need to make things worse by ignoring common sense and going out of their way to start a Covid outbreak on top of everything else.
Those who are not yet vaccinated are being moved to facilities where an outbreak could be managed if it happens, with appropriate medical and other teams to support them. Vaccines are being offered immediately to everyone who wants one.
Whilst there is never a fortuitous time to have a situation like this, St Vincents is in a better position than it might have been. It took delivery of 48,000 vaccines two days ago and few of them have yet been taken up. The population being relocated is around 20,000. You do the maths.
They also have few cases of Covid - out of a population of about 110,000, they have had significantly less than 2,000 cases and only 10 deaths. That has been the result of hard work by their health services to ensure that people act sensibly. The trick now has to be to keep it that way.
The most immediate issue now is water. Volcanic ash is polluting water supplies on the island. It's not likely to be toxic in the short term, but even purified it will taste like shit! And purification is required for all the populations water - not just those relocated. That's an enormous task.