Cruise ship graveyard4/28/2023 The industry basically shut down – with over 40,000 crew members stranded on ships in June 2020, a predicament that led to suicides. ![]() By May 2020, covid had struck over 40 of these floating high-rises. After the Diamond Princess fiasco, ports blocked many cruise ships. Lots of people crammed into enclosed areas are a perfect recipe for covid outbreaks. Why not just go to the beach? Oh, because that doesn’t cost money, or more accurately, doesn’t advertise that you have money to burn gazing at a chlorinated pool while surrounded by the salt water sea.Įver since 14 passengers died of covid on the Diamond Princess cruise ship last year, while it was quarantined at Yokohama, the industry has struggled. Who in their right mind wants to resuscitate the cruise industry? Its wildly polluting, monstrously over-sized cruise ships routinely disgorge thousands of passengers into small port towns, literally overrunning them with tourists, and the entire industry promotes the most vulgar conspicuous consumption: pay thousands of dollars for the privilege of reclining on a deck chair alongside a pool built into a floating skyscraper. Now he proposes to get those floating cemeteries, i.e. As author Carl Hiaasen noted on twitter, this “stunt lawsuit by Ron DeSantis has zero chance in court,” but it’s aimed at “making DeSantis look tough for his right-wing base.” It also fits with DeSantis’ pandemicide as governor of a state that has endured over 35,000 deaths from the virus. Under the so-called leadership of governor Ron DeSantis, Florida is suing the federal government and CDC to allow cruises to resume sailing. ![]() ![]() Photograph Source: Wilson Hui – CC BY 2.0
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