Masks??

[Eddy Edson]

Cruises: Here in Oz, 20%+ of infections and some large proporton of deaths have been amongst people who got it on cruise ships.

Not getting me on one of those floating petri dishes!

But the weird thing is, apparently the cruise lines are seeing large numbers of people wanting to make bookings for whenever the industry starts up again. Mindboggling!

What's the attraction anyway? Being cooped up on a boat with strangers having to form conga-lines and play desk-tennis or whatever it is people do on those things always seemed to me like a punishment you'd get after you died if you were a fairly bad person but not actually evil. (I think I saw that in Lloyd Bridges movie or something when I was a kid.)

Actually, I suppose the answer probably has something to do with fornication.

A graphic supporting my distate for cruise ships:



Onde damn ship responsible for 28 out of total of 95 deaths so far in Oz, 973 out of 6,851 total infections.

(There was a screw up by the harbour and health authorities in Sydney, letting everybody off and free to travel wherever without testing and isolation, but even so ...)

From a great WSJ piece the other day

Early in March, the world’s cruise-ship operators had ample evidence to believe their fleet of luxury liners were incubators for the new coronavirus. Yet they continued to fill cruise ships with passengers ...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/cruise...eadly-risk-to-passengers-and-crew-11588346502 (paywalled)