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We used to have family reunions on cruises when I was growing up, and it was a lot of fun.  There are major issues, however, including the fact that it is a floating petri dish (not just COVID-19, but also GI outbreaks), and the fact that cruises are not environmentally benign to the places they visit, and that the economic and legal model cruising companies use is flawed.  That being said, I was supposed to have gone on a cruise in the Eastern Adriatic (Greece and the former Yugoslavia) back in April.  Needless to say, this didn't happen.

Assuming that the vaccine is 90% efficacious as the preliminary data in Pfizer's case has shown, I think at that point the risk drops to be low enough that cruising can resume, but it seems ridiculous to try to do it before a vaccine (and making sure that passengers are vaccinated).  Even after that, I think the cruising industry is going to have to be examined and their regulatory and tax status (in no man's land) will have to be re-evaluated.

BC

[BostonCard]

We used to have family reunions on cruises when I was growing up, and it was a lot of fun.  There are major issues, however, including the fact that it is a floating petri dish (not just COVID-19, but also GI outbreaks), and the fact that cruises are not environmentally benign to the places they visit, and that the economic and legal model cruising companies use is flawed.  That being said, I was supposed to have gone on a cruise in the Eastern Adriatic (Greece and the former Yugoslavia) back in April.  Needless to say, this didn't happen.

Assuming that the vaccine is 90% efficacious as the preliminary data in Pfizer's case has shown, I think at that point the risk drops to be low enough that cruising can resume, but it seems ridiculous to try to do it before a vaccine (and making sure that passengers are vaccinated).  Even after that, I think the cruising industry is going to have to be examined and their regulatory and tax status (in no man's land) will have to be re-evaluated.

BC