[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

Originally Posted by Bill14564

Today you care about the COVID vaccine and you intend/expect/hope to get it. What happens tomorrow? Will the cruise industry decide that the mandate for the COVID vaccine worked well and require documentation of a flu vaccine or hepatitis or meningitis or measles? It would be all in the spirit of ensuring the ship is disease free.

Or maybe they want to go further to ensure the safety of their passengers. Perhaps there will be a study that shows people over 80 are more likely to die than those under 80 so the cruise lines will impose an age limit. Certainly, some of the excursions can be physically demanding and those with heart or weight problems could be adversely affected so maybe they should require cardiac health certifications or body fat measurements.

Basically, it's terribly risky to invite an entity (cruise lines, the govt, the developer) to impose restrictions and requirements. Sure, what they impose today fits with your thinking and makes sense but what they impose tomorrow might not.

As a business, a cruise line has every right to decide who they will or will not do business with. They every right to impose whatever restrictions that'd like as long as they are not prohibited by law.

As far as age discrimination, if they can show that people over a certain age places them at risk, they might have a case for being to have an age limit.