Miffy
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Dec 13, 2002
Expected changes? I expect the biggest change will be that cruising won't be happening at all for months, and certainly not until the pandemic is truly over. Those of you who cruise are optimistic because you want cruising to start up again and are thinking of ways that that could happen. I get it. I love WDW and can't stand it that they're closed. But I find it almost impossible to believe that any cruise company is thinking about starting up again, even with restrictions, at this point.
Something is known now that wasn't known several months ago: that it's basically impossible to stop the spread of covid-19 on a cruise ship. Therefore, any cruise line that would reinstate operations while the pandemic is still ongoing--assuming people would be willing to cruise, which apparently they are--would be opening themselves up to massive lawsuits after people started getting infected on their ships. This would bankrupt these companies even more effectively than simply being out of operation until the crisis is over.
Would they force passengers to sign waivers, to get tested, to [fill in the blank]? Quite possible. But would that stop people from suing after there's another massive outbreak on a cruise ship that, this time around, won't be able to find any port to let them disembark? I don't think so.
Does that mean it'll happen this way? I have no crystal ball, so I don't know. Neither does anyone else.
Something is known now that wasn't known several months ago: that it's basically impossible to stop the spread of covid-19 on a cruise ship. Therefore, any cruise line that would reinstate operations while the pandemic is still ongoing--assuming people would be willing to cruise, which apparently they are--would be opening themselves up to massive lawsuits after people started getting infected on their ships. This would bankrupt these companies even more effectively than simply being out of operation until the crisis is over.
Would they force passengers to sign waivers, to get tested, to [fill in the blank]? Quite possible. But would that stop people from suing after there's another massive outbreak on a cruise ship that, this time around, won't be able to find any port to let them disembark? I don't think so.
Does that mean it'll happen this way? I have no crystal ball, so I don't know. Neither does anyone else.