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The problem of "long COVID" is scary to me.  And as noted, hopefully Omicron will not cause that as much, we don't know yet.  If it's a cytokine related problem that likely is going to be true, if.

I'll go max protect and rush two.  That always works.

I was leaning away from getting the booster, but I think I might try to get one today on the way to the Bockfest at the local brewery
Talked to a couple at the Super bowl party and a good friend last night that had COVID recently.  the couple said it kicked them hard for 4 weeks.  The good friend said it nearly killed him and was down for 3 weeks losing over 30 pounds.  He didn't look too good yet.
none of the 3 of them were vaxed.  None of the 3 of them have changed their minds about the vax.
if this didn't change their mind, nothing will.
but, their stories may cause me to get boosted - there's some good in almost everything

I'd be willing to bet that these people had vitamin D deficiency.

We are pretty tied to Azamara, but we will be doing an Oceana this Fall, from "Rome" to Miami.

I did Carnival once with the kids, and I think it's a good option when you have kids.  If you step up half a notch to NCL, you'll see many fewer families with kids, and in European cruises, it's a different clientel entirely.

My wife and I sat most of an afternoon drinking at a bar on NCL once and neither of us had any semblance of a buzz.  The cruise we did in the Med we didn't have the drink package, which it turns out is VERY expensive, but they hide the costs pretty well.  

To steer this back to COVID, NCL is requiring vaccinations.

LONDON (AP) — People with COVID-19 won’t be legally required to self-isolate in England starting in the coming week, the U.K. government has announced, as part of a plan for “living with COVID” that is also likely to see testing for the coronavirus scaled back.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said ending all of the legal restrictions brought in to curb the spread of the virus will let people in the U.K. “protect ourselves without restricting our freedoms.” He is expected to lay out details of the plan in Parliament on Monday.

“I’m not saying that we should throw caution to the winds, but now is the moment for everybody to get their confidence back,” Johnson told the BBC in an interview broadcast Sunday.

“We’ve reached a stage where we think you can shift the balance away from state mandation, away from banning certain courses of action, compelling certain courses of action, in favor of encouraging personal responsibility.”

Average daily COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are continuing to fall in the U.S., an indicator that the omicron variant’s hold is weakening across the country.

Total confirmed cases reported Saturday barely exceeded 100,000, a sharp downturn from around 800,850 five weeks ago on Jan. 16, according to Johns Hopkins University data.

In New York, the number of cases went down by more than 50% over the last two weeks.

“I think what’s influencing the decline, of course, is that omicron is starting to run out of people to infect,” said Dr. Thomas Russo, professor and infectious disease chief at the University of Buffalo’s Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.

COVID-19 hospitalizations are down from a national seven-day average of 146,534 on Jan. 20 to 80,185 the week ending in Feb 13, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention COVID data tracker.

I was looking at a NYC to Rome cruise, it's a once a year deal, sounded kinda neat.