The wording is a bit confusing. It looks like if you have been in China/Hong Kong in the last 15 days you aren't allowed to board. If you hold a Chinese/Hong Kong passport you are subject to extra health screenings.
It makes a certain kind of sense to me to do extra screening on those with C/ HK passport. Those people are more likely to have come in contact with friends or family from "home" and since security cant look at all the friends and families passports then doing a little extra scanning makes some sense to me.
I wouldn't want to be in an inside stateroom. Locked two weeks in a room without windows? No thanks!
But we're taking precautions. Others have said that trying to come into the US right now, regardless of which country you are coming from, results in enhanced screenings from what it was just a few weeks ago. Travelers to that part of the world are being asked to self quarantine for 14 days on entry, if admitted.
Yes, sorry, when I said precautions I meant that they, Disney, is not asking if anyone has been to those higher virus affected areas before boarding a DCL cruise they are just asking about China and Hong Kong. Whereas I think they should be broader than that.
Ok, but you aren't getting into the US without being asked those questions, at all. Do you have a cruise coming up? I do in 20 something days now. I am as concerned about embarking on that ship now, as I was 6 months ago, what with all of the gross *** people who don't wash their hands and pick both ends of their body, But getting on an American based ship is more likely to carry a risk of exposure to influenza or Noro than Wuhan. Now, maybe we find some things out in the future that make me change my mind. For now, this is controlled in the States and Disney sails out of the US. I would be more concerned if I were embarking from Vancouver, since Canada refuses travel bans (at least they were yesterday, this is evolving), but no ships are currently sailing out of Canada.
And also to add Royal is starting to cancel cruises.
I mean I don't know, I hope so! I was planning for a May cruise. The thing with the temperatures checks is that symptoms don't appear for two weeks so if they have only been away for a week that won't say much.
So the asymptomatic transmission came from a case in Germany that was not vetted by the press. It was later determined that she was taking fever reducing meds at the time she got everyone else sick. So yes, the temp checks are not the best method, but are better than nothing. The best way to keep sick and exposed folks off the ships is for the Lines to allow cancelling without penalty for potentially exposed passengers, in concert with the other screenings that are occurring both privately and through the government.
