Cruises made little sense even before the coronavirus. But now? Forget it. onesarahjones writes
Deaths comes for everyone, but why speed it up? Photo: Carl Court/Getty Images The death drive, Freud theorized, operates alongside and in conflict with the pleasure principle. We seek to reproduce. We want to preserve our own skins. But we are vexing creatures, and sometimes we do other things, like join the military or go on cruises even though they are like floating greenhouses for viruses.
In a statement quoted by the New York Post, Carnival itself says it is “taking a measured approach, focusing on the potential for sailing from a select number of homeports where we have more significant operations that are easily accessible by car for the majority of our guests.” There is no guarantee it will actually reopen on August 1, it added. But for some eager consumers, hope springs eternal.
Reality really should temper their enthusiasm. Sick passengers languished on Holland America’s MS Zaandam for weeks; four people died. There are cruise ships still wandering the deep with crews who have no way to get home. Does this sound fun to you? Does it sound like a risk worth taking? It doesn’t to me, but perhaps that’s my fault. Perhaps I am just not made for cruise ship life.
But I would argue that facts are on my side. Cruises made little sense even before the coronavirus. Remember the norovirus outbreaks? That happened last year. Hundreds of people suffered bouts of vomiting and diarrhea. Then there was the Good Ship Measles, which sailed out last year.
Sometimes murder happens. A man killed his wife onboard the Emerald Princess in 2017. Another man pushed his girlfriend off a cruise ship balcony and killed her in 2018. Children have drowned in cruise ship pools; occasionally, so do adults. People go missing on cruise ships, every now and then. Even if nothing violent happens to you, you are still on a cruise ship, surrounded by loads of strangers in questionable polo shirts.
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