As omicron bulldozes through the world, many COVID-19 guidelines are being readopted by local and national governments.
The CDC has even issued new warnings in the wake of the new variant, although one, in particular, may have come a bit too little too late for some – don’t travel on cruises.
Such is the case for one Bay Area woman now stranded in isolation in Florida after getting sick on an 11-day cruise, according to reporting by KGO.
"I think this is a very dangerous time to even consider doing any kind of cruise vacation. It might be a wonderful way for some people to travel but now is not the time, don't do it," Sue Wagner, of Napa, told the station.
Wagner is using her experience as a signal to others to avoid traveling via cruise ship right now. In her time on board, some wore face masks, but a lot of people didn't.
When her initial symptoms grew worse, she took a test, and got a positive result on Saturday.
She quarantined the rest of the voyage on the Norwegian Cruise Line Caribbean cruise, which began and ended in Port Canaveral, Florida.
Upon arrival at the port on Monday, she and the other passengers that had tested positive were moved to a hotel to quarantine.
"We were greeted by the hotel manager who said, 'I have a whole list of people here, I don't have enough rooms, and if anybody wants to stay here you're going to have to check in and pay for your own rooms,'" Wagner told the station.
The total number of positive cases on the ship has yet to be confirmed. "I would guess, just from the number of people I saw at the hotel conference room, there was upwards of 50-60 people there," Wagner told the station.
Ultimately, Wagner is unsure when she'll be able to return home to California. "I made the conscious decision to do this cruise knowing that this could be the outcome, but I think I was lulled into a false sense of safety thinking that with all the procedures and precautions that were on the ship I'd be okay, but it turns out that it really wasn't the case,” she told the station.
Norwegian Cruise Line did not respond to KCBS Radio's request for comment at the time of publication.