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Originally Posted by NotGolfer
It's weird how these virus' seem to have cropped up in recent years on cruise ships. My other half and I have done several cruises in the past--mostly all in the '90's and early 2000's. The appeal is gone for us of late. Back when we did our cruises---one never heard of epidemics on board. IF folks got sick it was the sea-sickness variety, from which we escaped. Maybe the outbreaks now are due the the sizes of the ships and packing in more people. THAT'S the part that isn't appealing to us, so we're pretty much done with that now.
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That's an interesting hypothesis you propose. I can buy into it. When the ships were smaller there was a higher probability of the majority of passengers being from the local area. As the size of the ships grew the local population could not fill the ship and the cruise lines drew passengers from father away by offering airfare deals. Thus instead of having in essence a village made up of mostly locals and perhaps a few from within the country you have worldwide contingent that have come through every international airport on the planet to get on the ship.