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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.

I looked out my window this morning and what to my wondering eye did appear but the “Queen Mary 2” but no tiny reindeer. It’s been two years since the ocean liner docked at Brooklyn’s Ship Terminal on the East River as travel aboard ocean vessels was shut down by the pandemic and subsequent explosion of the coronavirus cases aboard ships at sea. My wondering mind questions the sanity of holiday travel on board the Queen Mary. The coronavirus surge we are experiencing now in New York is a ticking time bomb. The addition of passengers from the area mixed with crew and other passengers is an exploding bomb of breakthrough infections. No matter if people test negative, have had their vaccinations and their booster….don’t tell me that this sort of prolonged exposure to others will not turn Merry Christmas into the nightmare at New Years. I am astonished that our Mayor has not continued to keep this manner of travel into and out of New York shutdown. Has no one else seen the lines of people waiting for tests or vaccinations outside every pharmacy in New York? Has no one attempted to order antigen tests to learn that they are out of stock and when available, costly to the average person. I pray everyone on board the Queen Mary stays safe, keeps healthy and enjoys their holiday travel but I wonder? “And to all a good night…”