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ASTA president and CEO Zane Kerby said that the CDC's guidance that Americans should avoid cruising was a knee-jerk reaction.
Kerby is a person.
Kerby said in a statement that "cruising is no more responsible for the spread of the omicron variant than travelers from southern Africa were at the beginning of the crisis." We still see reactions to travel for discrimination. Travel takes a hit when Covid caseloads rise or new variant emerge because the industry is regulated more heavily than other activities.
He said that it reminded him of the old saying, "If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail." This pattern needs to stop.
They are both feeling the pain of omicron.
Kerby called on the U.S. government to reverse course as it did with the travel ban on eight countries in southern Africa when the omicron variant of Covid-19 began to spread.
Kerby said that cruising is safer than going to a grocery store or restaurant because of the guidelines cruise lines put in place with the CDC.
He pointed out that the Royal Caribbean Group's recent statement that its positivity rate since June 2021 was 0.05% was less than Alaska's, which had a positivity rate of 9.4%.
The tools exist to fight the H1N1 virus without causing a huge economic impact in the US. Let's use them.
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There is a cruise warning from the CDC.
