hey hey everybody how you doing it's Bruce here with traveling with Bruce
welcome to my channel today today's video is basically kind of a commentary
on my part regarding uh a lot of these articles I've been noticing lately maybe
even videos you've probably seen them too all about how cruise ships are
unsafe because you're just going to get sick on board these mega monster cruise
ships with all those other people on it I mean heck everyone is sick out there
you go on a cruise you're guaranteed to get sick - I I tell you right now
I got a problem with that but first of all I want to say thank you everybody
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tell you right now I am constantly looking for stories to cover talking
about cruise ships that's what I'm known for
and sometimes the stories are good sometimes the stories are bad but I try
to tell it to you like it is and I got to tell you I just I just can't sit idly
by and let these these stories go around that are just basically untrue there are
some stories out there that would make you think that if you were to go on a
cruise you're gonna come down with the Black Plague I mean it's just
unbelievable and everything contagious is waiting for you to get you normal
virus colds flu and fuzzy my mean you name it I mean it's just it's just crazy
I I wonder how is it that in cities like Tokyo Moscow Jakarta Rome London Paris
New York Chicago Boston Philadelphia Washington Toronto Ontario Montreal
Quebec and many many other cities around the world like Mexico and Rio de Janeiro
and Sao Paulo Brazil how is it that hundreds of millions if not billions of
people a year are on ways every day five days a week twice a
day coming and going standing right next to each other packed in like sardines
and we don't have massive outbreaks of illness all the time everywhere
everywhere in the world I mean come on you're gonna be on a cruise ship for one
week and you're gonna be exposing yourself to some of the worst diseases
known to man makes absolutely no sense I hear the arguments all the time they
talk about how it's impossible to keep a cruise ship germ-free it's very
difficult to keep clean and once an outbreak of something happens oh it
spreads like wildfire you know I've done a number of videos about the norovirus
on cruise ships in the last couple of years and generally speaking as soon as
the number hits one percent of the population of a cruise ship
the alarms go off on the at the health office in on the cruise ship for example
if you've got 5,000 people on a cruise ship and 50 people get ill from
norovirus which is the stomach virus emergency conditions are already
sounding the alarms are already going off hardly the same can be said at your
local high school public school subway station your workplace you're not going
to have those kinds of those kinds of alarms going on
when it's 2% on a cruise ship serious measures are taken where you can't even
handle your food anymore staff that are trained handle food
properly will handle all food you don't handle even dishes any longer I mean it
gets really severe at 3% ships go back to homeport where they started from and
people get looked after immediately and it is such a rarity I mean it's so rare
I basically do what I maybe one video a year about it it's that rare there are
almost 500 cruise ships at sea right now this year over 30 million people will be
on cruise ships for three days five days seven days you name it
and if this was such a pervasive problem the way you read and hear about these
stories on the internet and on other sites you think that there would be a
cruise ship every two weeks every week coming in the dock with a whole bunch of
sick people it just doesn't happen it's news when it does happen because it's
rare it's very very rare that a ship has to return back to our home port early
because of illness and illness outbreak on a cruise here's the reality and maybe
you know this to be true have any of you over all the years you've traveled
whether you've gone to see relatives or friends or whether you've gone for a
business trip that you've had to take or you've gone to say you're gonna go to a
trip with your significant other or a family you're gonna go to Disneyland or
Disney World you're gonna go to Europe and someone in the family is not feeling
well three or four days before the trip is to begin whether you're flying
somewhere or you're driving somewhere whatever even if it's going on a cruise
how many times has it happened where despite not feeling so great you
traveled anyway it happens all the time every day I don't know how many millions
of people are in the air around the world I can guarantee you that someone
on your plane out of 150 passengers that are sitting in that airplane someone on
your plane's got a call somebody on your plane in the last week was not feeling
well may have not been feeling well the morning they got on the trip they go
anyway we all do we tough it out especially those of us who have but
let's say paid in advance for a a one-week holiday that's gonna cost us
three or four thousand bucks we're going baby nothing is stopping us from going
the reality is on cruise ships the norovirus that exists out there people
bring it with them on a cruise they already got the norovirus the reality of
the norovirus is it takes several days to appear as an as a a symptom it takes
a while for it to hit your body and depending on strong you are and your
immune system it might take Oh week or so before it even gets close to
overtaking you and even then you may not feel the effects very much because it's
a mild form but the hard reality is this if you've got five thousand passengers a
week getting off and on cruise ships the odds are that people are bringing the
norovirus with them from where they're coming from
and they're spreading it unknowingly all over the ship the other reality I think
is if you're coming on a cruise ship for a one-week cruise the odds of you being
able to spread the buyers have been greatly decreased because nowhere else
that I know of does a restaurant or a fast-food counter
at a shopping mall or your local street vendor make you sanitize your hands
before you can go in to a dining area on cruise ships whether you're going into
the buffet or whether you're going into the main dining room or to a specialty
room you have to use the hand sanitizer there's staff waiting watching to make
sure you use the hand sanitizer before you go in and so the odds of you
spreading something from your hands onto something else inside the restaurant
have already been greatly diminished of course you get an eight-year-old who
rubs their nose and then rubs to their hands and then touches their seat back
game over if they've got it they got a virus they've spread it but that's true
in your house in your school at the mall anywhere anyone happens to be at I mean
again remember the subway my gosh I don't ride the subway a day to day as a
youtuber I'm here at my home having the luxury of talking to you on this camera
but there are folks out there commuting every day on rail cars buses and subways
who knows what germs they're being exposed to every minute of every day and
yet they don't get ill they don't get sick and they're not gonna get sick on a
cruise ship chances are if you are going on a cruise whether it's for a week or a
four day trip or a ten day trip the odds of you getting seriously ill on a crew
ship are extremely slight I mean really so they're probably less than you
getting sick living your normal life at home and at
your office it's just a fact cruise ships have excellent protocols to keep
cruise ships clean they're inspected often they're inspected by surprise
especially by the US authorities and cruise lines themselves pride themselves
on running a clean operation because if they didn't their staff would be sick
think about that there are 2,000 plus staff members on some of these larger
cruise ships if they were really the cesspools that are being broadcast that
they are by people out there pundants why is it that the cruise lines don't
have 500 people every week going to the hospital from the 2,000 crew that are
working on the cruise ship it's just not the case the crew members some of some
of these ships have 2200 no one is getting sick on these ships they're
stuck down below by the way it's not like they have balcony suites and get
the fresh air every afternoon when they go back to their suite they're down
below sharing two three four people to a cabin they're packed in there pretty
tight and yet they're not getting ill in an incredible crazy rate what why is
that because the ships are kept at a very clean standard so there you go ah
that's my little rant of the day hope you didn't mind it like I said the
chances of you getting sick on a cruise ship are very rare the chances of
someone being sick when they get on the ship yeah that that happens but then
they're also in a sanitary environment going forward hopefully what they have
won't spread sometimes it happens unavoidable but it happens at your
office at school and in our lives there you go there's my little story for the
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