Posted on 05/09/2021 10:28:33 AM PDT by Twotone
Miami-based Norwegian Cruise Line said it may avoid Florida ports because of the Sunshine State’s vaccine passport ban.
“But at the end of the day, cruise ships have motors, propellers, and rudders. And God forbid we can’t operate in the state of Florida for whatever reason, then there are other states that we do operate from. And we can operate from the Caribbean for ships that otherwise would have gone to Florida,” Norwegian President and Chief Executive Officer Frank J. Del Rio told reporters on Thursday during an earnings call for the first quarter of 2021.
He said all cruise companies want to operate in Florida because the market is “lucrative” and hoped the disputes over the vaccine passport ban can be solved.
“We hope that this hasn’t become a legal football or a political football,” he said.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis codified the prohibition of COVID-19 vaccine passports by signing Florida Senate Bill 2006 into law on May 3. He initiated the ban through an executive order in August.
The new law will be effective on July 1, 2021.
The Epoch Times reached out to DeSantis’s office for comments.
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They may win by getting gov’t subsidies. They won’t win by screwing over half their paying customers.
well international travel destinations and their providers really don’t care about state laws do they
The supply lines and support staff for them are in Florida. Putting all those facilities in the Caribbean along with stockpiling the supplies there is going to be difficult. Not impossible, just difficult. It's also doing to take a few years to pull that off, best guess of course.
And then there's building up the docks for all the cruise ships that come in, offboard, onboard and re-stock at the same time. I'd have to wonder how long it would take to build the ports up in the Caribbean to handle it.
It’s disgusting, isn’t it?
Yes, the amount of non Americans here does disgust me. It’s not just here though, some people who I thought would not be part of the nonsense have caved and taken shots. We’ll be second class citizens soon.
The ones who cave at the ones who are responsible when this gets worse and more is demanded of us by the powers that be. They are literally handing over our freedoms to the overlords.
Giving into TPTB demands does NOT stop them. It’s blood in the water to them. it will only encourage more of the same as they have just learned that people will comply.
Appeasement NEVER, EVER works. EVER.
The only way to get a bully to stop pushing you around is to beat the snot out of him. We have to stand up to the bullies to get them to stop, not give in to them.
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