Chily was fully vaccinated and boosted, he also had to show proof of a negative coved test taken within two days of getting on the cruise. The best part of a year was spent in r in my chair with the television on, even though i couldn't figure out how to change channels,. till i could get to the point that i could come out to the dining room table and sit and have meals. So sting is not something i want. I want to live.
Charles Falls Jr., known as Chillie, loves to take cruises. But Covid, as it has done for so many, left him marooned at home in Virginia.
As he told Cristal Duhaime, a producer at the Times podcast First Person, as soon as restrictions eased, he eagerly planned a return to the waves. But for Chillie, who suffers from prostate cancer, resuming his beloved travels — particularly aboard the cramped quarters of a cruise ship, most people’s idea of a pandemic nightmare — was especially perilous.
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