We haven't traveled in 27 months,  when we returned from a two-week trip to Thailand , which at that time was #2 to China in COVID-19 cases, only so labeled by the World Health Organization the day we left Honolulu.   Thailand is now #24 in cases with 4.4 million and China is #109 with 221,804.  But of course you know that this number is considerably higher.  The USA is #1 with 84 million cases, double that of India with 43 million.  Of course, WHO has indicated that this figure is a whole lot higher.  The World has had 521 million cases, which should at least be doubled.  The World population is approaching 8 billion. While Omicron is still lurking, and tomorrow I will post on the latest subvariants, it's possible that most cruise ships might be safer today than going out in Hawaii, for   our positivity rate is 14.3% .  We might need to avoid island tours, as this rate is 20.3% on Kauai. I've read that the  figure for cruises is lo...
 
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