This seems insane: Carnival to begin cruises again from Florida and Texas on Aug. 1st

[Mrs. Overall]

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JUST IN: Carnival Cruise Line says it will begin to phase-in cruises again starting August 1 with eight of its ships leaving from Miami, Port Canaveral and Galveston.

[nycbos]

1. Who would be stupid enough to go on a cruise now?

[sinkingfeeling]

5. +100. I'm waiting to be denied visas from Australia and New

Zealand in October. I think those countries will be fine, but will deny Americans entry based on our stupid response to Covid-19.

[sfstaxprep]

14. You Really Have To Ask That?

There are plenty of Stupid people in this country and the world.

[brooklynite]

2. No it doesn't

Unless you're prepared to say that lockdowns will continue through the entire summer (which would have huge economic consequences) it's reasonable for vacation entities to make advance plans for the summer.

[maxsolomon]

20. I know a Cruise Planner who's been taking bookings all along.

In between scrambling to get cruisers flights home from hither and yon (i.e. Perth).

A lot of people have a lot of money and they aren't going to live much longer. Why not book? If it gets cancelled, you get refunded.

If you don't want to take the risk, don't go.

[Ace Rothstein]

3. Will be interesting to see where they'll be allowed to dock.

Might not be many ports willing to accept them. However many of the places that the ships dock rely on tourism to pay the bills.

[Polly Hennessey]

4. Insanity defines the

really stupid people who willingly take the cruises then whine and whimper when they get sick. Cruise ships are floating Petri dishes. Ugh!

[abqtommy]

6. Why, if only there were some law against endangering public safety...oh, wait...

[empedocles]

7. They got that big subsidy, have to do something.

Hope they have to, at least initially, hire some Americans

[Voltaire2]

9. they should have gotten a subsidy to stop their business and pay their workers

Sailing giant petri dishes of assorted viral and bacterial agents around the world is idiotic.

[Phoenix61]

19. No, they shouldn't. They are not registered

in the US to avoid paying US taxes. Why should they get US tax payer money?

[Voltaire2]

8. It is insane.

We are going to blow past 100K dead. It is likely that we will become the textbook case study on How Not To Manage A Pandemic.

It is now up to each of us to do whatever we can to keep safe. The federal government has abandoned any responsibility for a coordinated national program, and the administration is actively sabatoging state governments trying to implement rational programs.

We are, quite simply, fucked.

[nycbos]

10. Bring out your dead

[sop]

11. Carnival Cruise Lines should just repurpose the USNS Comfort and USNS Mercy.

Call them "Hospital Cruise Ships." Put in a couple of swimming pools, a swanky nightclub and some shuffleboard courts, while leaving all the medical facilities in place. It should make quarantining and treating all the sick and dying passengers much easier.

[Cognitive_Resonance]

13. Don't forget the "burial at sea option" to complete that once in a lifetime experience. nt

[Renew Deal]

12. They are all one way trips

I wouldn't go, but if people want to go, let them. It is their choice to die in a floating tin can.

[Vogon_Glory]

15. They can offer these cruises but I'm not boarding until

it’s safe again. I fear that August 1st is much too soon from a US port.

And if I was in charge of clearing passengers at a European port of embarcation, I wouldn’t let any Americans board without prior clearance from their physician and dockside medical tests.

I fear that it won’t be safe to cruise from a US port until late spring next year.

[maxsolomon]

21. It will never be 100% safe. There is always a risk on a large cruise ship.

No departures until June 2021 will kill the industry.

I won't be that upset, but a lot of people will be out of work.

[Vogon_Glory]

22. I suspect that there will still be a cruise industry BUT

It’s going to be a long while before many of the ships that sailed out of US ports will be back. They’ll redeploy to Europe, Asia, the Antipodes, and—possibly—those Caribbean ports where the Republican Insane Clown Posse won’t dictate boarding procedures.

I can imagine warm-water cruises late next fall out of the Bahamas, Barbados, Possibly out of some of the English-speaking islands, and possibly the Dutch West Indies.

[JustAnotherGen]

16. And here I thought

The CEO of Frontier Airlines had cracked his head with the cheap summer flying fares.

[Initech]

17. It's the death boat... exciting and new!

Your first cruise... will likely be your last!

[Proud Liberal Dem]

18. *sigh*

[UTUSN]

23. Insane - yip, the people who get on those ships and the poor crew who have to work on them!

[EX500rider]

24. "the poor crew who have to work on them"-I think you mean "choose to work on them" nt

[UTUSN]

25. That you got it means I successfully communicated the implication. However,

argumentative people, of whom I am not one, might make a case that people with certain job skills and financial situations "have to" take certain types of work not of their preferred choosing.