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A year ago, infected cruise passengers foretold our future. Now, the courts are deciding who’s to blame.
South Florida Sun Sentinel ^ | March 14, 2021 | Andrew Boryga,

Posted on 03/14/2021 11:33:28 AM PDT by Capt. Tom

A year ago, before anyone knew how COVID-19 would obliterate our way of life, we got a taste by following the saga of thousands of cruise passengers stranded at sea. As desperate ships full of these sick and dying Americans and foreign nationals circled the coasts of the U.S., debates raged about what to do. Eventually, the passengers were accepted like war-torn refugees.

They became some of the first positive COVID-19 cases in our nation, and the first to die. Now, the legal system is trying to decide whom to blame.

A wave of federal lawsuits filed by former passengers over the last year provides an account of how cruise lines were cryptic about admitting whether the virus was on board, how they dealt with passengers presenting early symptoms and how some gave out free drinks to keep the party going despite sick people filling the infirmary.

How much did cruise lines know in the early days of a rapidly evolving pandemic? How much responsibility do the passengers shoulder for stepping on board in the first place?

Many of these debates are playing out in South Florida because some cruise lines force passengers, no matter where they are from, to file lawsuits in our federal court. Thus far, a handful of cases against lines like Celebrity Cruises, Holland America and Princess Cruises have been dismissed or narrowed down by federal judges across the country.

Legal experts say cruise lines are protected by language tucked into tickets that strips passengers of rights and century-old laws that rule the open seas and ensure cargo more than top-dollar paying cruisers. The unprecedented nature of a global pandemic also works in the cruise lines’ favor, said Robert Jarvis, a law professor at Nova Southeastern University and former attorney on behalf of cruise lines

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Society; Travel
KEYWORDS: courts; cruisepassengers; demagoguery; robertjarvis
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To: hoe_cake

I caught a rather nasty bug on February 16, 2020. I caught it from a Pastor friend who had attended a conference in January 2020 in Texas. I had this bug for 3 weeks. It cleared up just before the CCP-Coronavirus became a ‘panic-demic’. In December 2020, I was tested for the CCP-Coronavirus, but turned up negative. I have no idea how or if they tested for anti-bodies or just ‘active’ virus. If testing was just for the latter, it is quite possible that it WAS the CCP-Coronavirus last February.


21 posted on 03/14/2021 2:02:49 PM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see... )
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To: Capt. Tom

What’s REALLY EMBARRASSING is that both sides of these lawsuits can quote the same person several days apart to make their case. Of course that would be Dr. Fauchi.


22 posted on 03/14/2021 2:04:05 PM PDT by BobL (TheDonald.win is now Patriots.win)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Legal experts say cruise lines are protected by language tucked into tickets that strips passengers of rights and century-old laws that rule the open seas and ensure cargo more than top-dollar paying cruisers. The unprecedented nature of a global pandemic also works in the cruise lines’ favor, said Robert Jarvis, a law professor at Nova Southeastern University and former attorney on behalf of cruise lines.

23 posted on 03/14/2021 2:08:38 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Capt. Tom

Blame Fauci first.


24 posted on 03/14/2021 2:25:09 PM PDT by OKSooner (BFF: Blame Fauci First)
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To: Capt. Tom

The March 2020 cruise ships were exactly how we know Covid is a farce. 2 old people died. Tragedy, yes. But of of the 3000 people on board, not bad for a perfect microcosm for infection!


25 posted on 03/14/2021 2:25:18 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Fai Mao

Regardless I’m not going on one. This lawsuit would seem to indicate the perhaps I’m the one that’s correct. Also I do not support YouTube or Google and will not click on their links sorry


26 posted on 03/14/2021 2:30:04 PM PDT by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house.... But the fact checkers said the story was false!)
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To: TexasGator

They are not known as floating Petri dishes for nothing. No matter what cruise lines tell you.


27 posted on 03/14/2021 2:34:38 PM PDT by lastchance
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To: Capt. Tom

Apparently Carnival has some big announcement tomorrow, Monday...

They will either say June is cancelled or maybe its that the Mardi Gras is finally on her way here from Barcelona where shes been stuck for the last 3 months...

Or it may be that we will need the vaccine to cruise...

or it may be that they are bankrupt...


28 posted on 03/14/2021 5:14:31 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Capt. Tom
GOVERNOR DESANTIS MUST STEP IN!! The CDC HAS WAY TOO MUCH CONTROL!!

We need to CALL ALL of our DEMOCRAT REPS and SENS.......tomorrow!

29 posted on 03/14/2021 5:27:52 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Tennessee Nana

“Apparently Carnival has some big announcement tomorrow, Monday...”

No doubt CARNIVAL is getting antsy. Today CEO Arnold Donald
said things would not be normal till 2023 with Carnival.

You can read his statement by clicking the link below. -Tom

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-carnival/carnival-corp-ceo-sees-minimum-of-two-more-tough-years-for-cruise-industry-ft-idUSKBN2B602W


30 posted on 03/14/2021 5:35:59 PM PDT by Capt. Tom (.It's COVID 2021 - The Events, not us, are still in charge -Tom)
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To: Capt. Tom

Oh how nice...I have a 14 day in Jan of 2023....Maybe3 I will get lucky with that cruise....


31 posted on 03/14/2021 9:08:27 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Tennessee Nana

“Apparently Carnival has some big announcement tomorrow, Monday...”

Looks like NORWEGIAN is ready to give up on June.

https://www.cruisehive.com/norwegian-cruise-line-removes-almost-all-june-sailings/48116


32 posted on 03/15/2021 2:49:44 PM PDT by Capt. Tom (.It's COVID 2021 - The Events, not us, are still in charge -Tom)
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To: Capt. Tom

Italy is going into lockdown again,,,3rd surge of the Wu Hu Flu....That will mess up the cruises around there...


33 posted on 03/15/2021 5:12:08 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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