IMO those judges over the weekend threw the cruise lines a big life preserver. Cruise lines can ill afford a major covid breakout on one of their voyages and would generally prefer to have as many crew and passengers vaccinated as possible - without playing referee with extra insurance charges and other disincentives. The ban on “vaccine passports” by DeSantis and others made everything a lot more difficult for the cruise lines. It’s a shame this has become such a political football.
Meanwhile this is a cruise cruise related thread on free republic so I look forward to reading all the ad hominem anti-cruise comments (“floating petri-dish” blah blah blah)…
You bring up an interesting point. If cruise lines operated under DeSantis’ ban of proof-of-vaccination, you suggest that they could have done this by “spreading the risk” with insurers.
I’m not so sure that’s a bad idea. Right now, the individual is expected to take all if the risk with both the virus, itself, and this hastily contrived and untested vaccine.
I believe that insurers have been largely sitting this out, or I certainly haven’t heard of insurance adaptations to COVID or the vaccine. I can’t imagine that insurers want to cover ramifications of the vaccine.
Maybe it would have been a good idea to see cruising pick back up DeSantis’ way, since the vaccine is its own political football.