Well, I have officially reached my first OPP Outbreak. Over 2% of our guests and about 1% of our crew is ill at the moment. That's in the neighborhood of 50 people in an confined space with highly contagious GI... no fun.
What does this mean?
Sanitize. Sanitize. Sanitize. We wipe down every frequently touched surface every 30 minutes on the entire ship. You cannot enter the ship, a dining area, the gift shops, the theater, or the movie lounge without compulsory hand sanitizing. No crew can dine in any guest area - not the free buffet, the $5 Bistro, or either of the specialty restaurants.
But what's the real drag?
The messes.
No one is allowed to serve themselves any more. This greatly slows down the rate that they are able to accommodate people in any given mess, so all three messes have a line wrapping halfway down the crew corridor. Officers take rotation at the hand washing station inside the door verifying that everyone who enters washes their hands for 20 seconds. You walk up to the buffet line where an aggravated mess attendant is holding a plate and glaring at you while you tell them, scoop by scoop what you want on your plate. You really don't end up getting the right quantity of anything, and they don't even put salad stuff on top of one another, it's just a mess. And then they hand you your plate and you feel so bad for them that you just say thank you even though you are a vegetarian who some how ended up with beef steak and meatballs on top of their spinach salad.
I mean - it's the same in the guest buffet - they have to get everything served to them. But the guests aren't exactly in a rush to get to their next shift, you know. If it takes them an hour and a half to get through their 4,000 calorie meal, who cares except our ratings.
There is rumor that one of the ice machines onboard tested positive for something (either Ecoli or something else that they tested for). So after that gets deep cleaned and we reach turnaround day on the 25th and get all of the guests the hell of the ship, maybe we'll have a clean onboard bill of health again.
Fingers crossed.
ON THE PLUS SIDE. I weighed myself for the first time since "Celebrity's Biggest Loser" started on the 17th. I am down 4 kilos (8.8 lbs). Very fast weight loss, leads me to believe that most of it is due to eating less and healthier. But in any case, I'll take what I can get.
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