Are you ready to sail again with a cruise line that told travelers it was safe when the highly contagious coronavirus was spreading in Florida and worldwide and it clearly wasn’t?
Carnival and its competitors, Royal Caribbean, Norwegian Cruise Line and MSC Cruises, continued to operate until March 13 despite outbreaks and suspected infections on their ships making headlines.
Like every other Florida consumer with canceled sailing plans for this year due to the coronavirus, I’m carefully considering whether I will cruise again in the near future — or not at all for a long, long time.
Weighing heavily on my decision is the misbehavior of principal actors in the cruise line
industry during the coronavirus crisis and other past ills, like dumping oil and waste in the oceans.
Cruise lines aren’t responsible for the novel coronavirus, of course, but the executives who run the companies are responsible for their failed response (or lack of one) to the highly contagious disease.
