Originally Posted by
mountainboy
Forget about flights... it mentions cruises.
I'm finding it very hard to stay real. Are all the covid deaths due to travel? Or even a majority? Or even a minority? I was at a Costco today, with government-mandated lineups, *WOW*. Where is this meme coming from that travel is killing people.
Maybe I'm being too sensitive to the word "essential" meaning different things to different people -- the governments appear to be trying real hard to say "business travel only".
Maybe that will 100% kill the travel sector immediately.
I mean, the logic used for Costco is that people still have to buy groceries and socks and tires, but they don't *need* to go get drunk in Cancun.
I can't pretend objectivity here, since COVID has essentially made my profession illegal, but I am unable to wrap my head around the part where every government agency - even Florida - agreed from day one that cruises were a completely unacceptable risk, but airlines can keep selling holidays to all-inclusives, which are essentially cruise ships that don't move.
I understand that AC has to do its best to stay solvent, and I recognize that part of that is them trying to convince people that travel is safe, but I don't understand how ACV are allowed to operate at all, if cruise lines and gyms and concert halls and restaurants can't.