Howdy! I evidently received a comment on my blog and will respond. After next weekend, I'll take the time to go over this web blog and chat page area with my password and stuff with my brother. He knows about computers pretty well.....I'm not too good on them. But, work daily with emails in business---now, that I need!! So, forgive me, and I'll learn this thing next weekend.
To the person who sent me a memo: All I know is what I read or hear from our local media. They are on this story like a hot potato oozing with butter hopes it is on a plate. (?) Anyway, in the news story of our local paper, the Evansville Courier, it states that the company owning the Mississippi Queen offered to folks full refunds is they didn't want to continue their trip. Some took the offer, and most didn't. Believe it or not, the boat capacity was at 528 intoday's story and yesterday it was at 380. So, who knows. The Food and Drug Admisistration and a staff of epidemiologists are going to investigate the disease. Now, I don't know how much someone travels, but when there is an investigation of a disease, there will be a sanitizing done and the FDA will make that efficient. I'm sure that the company doesn't want reinfection and will take every precaution to follow the instructions of the FDA. I can't speak for the company, but know that as a fellow business person, they'd make every precaution to make it as safe for the present passengers still on board and the ones coming next. There were some passengers that were sick and still wanted to stay on the boat and were told that they'd have to stay in their rooms for the next three days. Others were asked to get medical treatment off the boat. If the passengers were sick, and I'm not sure how all of this went on, if those passengers received treatment they didn't/suggest/whatever to return the rest of the trip. Bottom line, once the Feds get in there, the boat will be sanitzed and it should all well. Reinfection shouldn't happen. To the guy that emailed.....I don't have a clue which decks were involved. The main thing in life is to always wash your hands. If you fly in a jet, you take precautions. It is the same any which way one would travel. i contantly wash my hands and have for years carried handiwipes in the trunk of my car after shaking customer's hands. Just take precautions. I'd say a newly santized boat would make me feel very comfortable. They aren't clearing unless it is considered sanitized. Match that up with any jet you fly on. The MQ minimized the spread of the virus by using prepackaged food, closing public restrooms, and installing hand sanitizing stations throughout the boat---ya' see, my handiwipes idea isn't off the wall. I've done handiwipes for years. I don't trust where folks hands have been--I don't care who I offend on that. And, sir, there were 20 medical folks who met the boat at the dock plust about another 80 folks who worked at the Hospital ER and emergency workers who were well prepared even before the boat got in Henderson, Ky. Our area treats these Queen Series boats as rock stars. We want them to come back again, and again. Our area is darn sure that we are going to help the passengers feel like they are royalty. They are ambassadors to others how they were treated here. And, I'm sure that the MQ, the AQ, and the DQ does the same thing. This wasn't a yearly occurance. It just happended and that is that. So, I'd go on that trip this fall or next and enjoy the great leaves. The color this year is spectacular in our area. Best in years. Email me again if you need to....and to the rest of the folks, I'll learn to use the Message Board thing yet. My brother will help me.......Haven't taken the time to read the instructions sent about a month ago. Ugh. I apologize, Franz. I'll read it for next weekends jaunt on the internet to correct and tend to. Always something more to do. Laundry and vacumning today. WHEE, what joy! Mary
