entropy12 wrote: “Yes covid-19 is risky for people with health issues. But not for healthy individuals under age 60. And that is 97% of workers who go to work every day in non-managerial positions.”
As that may be, a very significant number, if not a majority, of those on cruise ships are over 65 and have numerous health issues. That was one of the major complaints back in the fall when the cruise lines proposed limiting cruises to those under 75 with no health issues. That caused a near riot on CruiseCritic.
Far more people have been killed and maimed by auto accidents (mostly young and healthy) in last decade than covid-19 will ever kill. Where is the CDC on that?
I really do not want the gov’t to play role of my mother.
We can decide ourselves if we should drive a car or go on a cruise. Only role gov’t should have is to collect and publish statistics. And let the people use their own judgement on how to live their life.
Lately I am seeing more and more young people with kids on cruise ship than was the case when we started cruising in 1988. I think those young people have discovered what a great vacation on a cruise ship is for kids.
We took our 5 & 3 year old kids on their first cruise in 1996. The kids had such a good time for so little additional cruise fare, the never let us go on a cruise again without them. Both kids did 16 cruises with us. Best part for us was the ship had full time baby sitters for them so we only saw them for breakfast, lunch and dinner.