Stop Going on Cruises

No, I'm fucking serious.  Just stop it.  

The cruise ship industry is a multi-billion dollar environmental disaster that was bailed out via "backdoor aid" & other shady means during COVID after helping spread the virus & lying to passengers.  Now they've facilitated an outbreak of the deadly person-to-person Andes Hantavirus which has, at the time of this writing, killed 3 and sickened 8.  Hantavirus is usually contracted from contact with dried airborne rodent feces, such as when Gene Hackman's wife Betsy Arakawa died of it in 2025, but this rare strain is the exception, having the ability to spread between humans in close contact like that on cruise ships. 

While this is a unique and horrifying situation, it's far from unprecedented.  Every year, multiple outbreaks of gastrointestinal illnesses like norovirus and E. coli infection spread on cruise ships.  We're only halfway through 2026 and already we've had 2 of each of the above on 4 separate ships.  And because these big ass boats are in international waters, how quarantine is handled depends entirely on which country you dock in.  In the case of a new highly contagious disease, you may end up stranded at sea for weeks or months.  That's what happened to passengers aboard the "Diamond Princess" in early 2020 when passengers started falling ill with the mysterious & frightening new respiratory disease now known as COVID-19.  700 were infected & "several" died, which had to be terrifying for those trapped on this death vessel.  As a germophobe I can think of no more nightmarish fate than being stuck with no escape with a hoard of snot-slinging vomit-spewing plague rats in the middle of the ocean.  




Maritime Law(lessness)

From Google

But it doesn't end with disease:  roughly 400 people have gone missing from cruise ships in the last 2 decades, a number the industry cites as low compared to the millions who take cruises annually.  Tell that to the families of Rebecca Coriam, Amy Bradley or any of the countless others who've vanished without a trace under mysterious circumstances.  But some victims lived to tell the tale.  In 2024, 2 Kentucky women were drugged and raped on a Carnival cruise by employees of the ship.  A Florida teen raped & killed his stepsister on a 2026 Carnival cruise, and a lawsuit against Royal Caribbean claims a woman's husband was served 33 drinks and then tackled to his death by guards.  Then there was this asshole who dropped his grand daughter out an open window & got 3 years' probation.

Creep of all creeps speaks about "Terra Mar" Project

Maritime law and international waters are hella sketchy.  If you wanted to kill someone (in theory of course), this would be the best place to do it due to plausible deniability ("they got drunk & fell over!") & the convoluted, rarely enforced laws.  Recall when John McAfee was accused of murder & took to the high seas?  Or Ghislaine Maxwell's creepy concern for the oceans?  This likely had something to do with the lawlessness allowed there if I had to guess.  Private islands are equally sketchy, and not just Epstein's. 

When Amy Bradley went missing in 1998, the captain refused to stop the cruise and alert passengers of the situation which might've helped save her life or at least find her body had she fallen overboard.  That's because the cruise industry is only looking out for their own interests and will do anything to protect or cover for bad actors aboard these death trips.  (The main person of interest in the case, "Yellow", worked for the ship as a band member, which means the cruise line would've been majorly liable if he was responsible for her demise/disappearance).

At best, cruises are expensive canned vacations full of seasick strangers and a high risk of sickness or death. At worst, they may be the last place you go before your own untimely demise.  Please stop financing this filthy industry with your hard-earned dollars.  

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