Hundreds of Brits trapped on cruise ship after passenger dies and dozens fall ill following suspected norovirus outbreak |

The Cruise ship industry has had a horrible few weeks hasn’t it

If someone’s died from it isn’t it more likely to be food poisoning?

It’s a bit like turkey’s voting for Christmas, when the elderly book a cruise.

I was seriously considering going for a my first cruise soon to try it out, getting a lot less keen on the idea now though

I always wanted to go on cruise when I was younger.. Then covid happened and I saw just how much people don’t care about infecting others. Cruises disgust me now.

A woman coughed directly in my face yesterday while we were both dropping our kids off at school. People are gross.

Expect any illness on any cruise to be reported on atm till it falls out the media sphere again

Not the best place for that to happen, any bug involving older or vulnerable people they usually need to have intervention early, even your bog standard cold/flu.
Less the virus itself which kills people its the accompanying dehydration which generally also means UTI’s because you aren’t urinating properly and your body accumilates bacteria down there and then the cascade as kidneys pack up etc

That said, serious as it is, I do feel the media is oversensationalising it because of the Henta story

Anyone with loved ones either living in or working in care homes or similar settings knows about noro, been around ages like it took a whole advertising/publicity campaign with the pandemic and infection control to remind the rest about handwashing/basic hygene what some of us had known/been doing out of habit for years, nobody wants to take nasties to their frail loved ones.

It would be easy to assume it was a hygene issue with the ship itself, but with noro whats prob happenned is patient zero bought it on board with them. Like how you see people who use the toilet yet don’t wash their hands, or that dirty sod digging around in their arse, are you in trouble if they handle food let alone on a cruise ship.
Or that person in your job who despite repeated warnings was made to come in sick and is now using your shared kitchen.

Also you kinda need to shit everything out, so this isn’t something you can just chuck imodium at willy nilly

Been on a couple of cruises, first one it was where manners went to die, mainly old people that clearly forgot how to be nice. Never been shoved out the way (literally) by pensioners so many times in my life

Nice to know the winter fuel allowance is finally going towards something I can find personally satisfying

People are always trapped on cruise ships – that’s literally how they work. You board with 100’s / 1000’s of other people, and apart from a few hours offshore at a predetermined stop every other day, you spend every single waking moment with them or in your own wee prison cell, hopefully with a window, hopefully to the sea view. They are the opposite to freedom and feel like you are paying for prison conditions albeit with more buffet options and shitey dancing.