Who in the right mind is going on a cruise now? Even without the Coronavirus every other freakin’ ship gets Norovirus.
Cruise ships are like spending a week rolling around in a dirty diaper ...
Not that's there's anything wrong with that!
There are millions of cases of norovirus every year, it isn’t exclusive to cruise ships. It’s everywhere people congregate, schools theaters etc..
The people who catch it are the ones who don’t wash their hands. The cruise ship employees rarely get it cause they are trained to wash their hands. You can go on dozens of cruises and never catch it, even the cruises that have dozens of passengers with it. Norovirus isn’t a good reason to avoid cruising in my opinion, there are others depending on what you like
My husband, who HATES cruises had to go on a work related one recently. This was right when everything was starting with the Japanese cruise ship. I was pretty nervous. He did not do any touristy stuff, mostly sat by himself, in the sun, reading, etc. he sat away from people. He washed his hands raw. We’re even being careful here, using different bathrooms, keeping a bit of distance for the next few weeks. There’s just too much we don’t know.