This is ridiculous! The passengers had to of known when they walked on those ships that there was a pandemic upon us. AND Carnival shouldn’t have even been operating.
I agree.
We had a paid cruise on Feb 22-29 out of New Orleans and it was getting hairy then. We didn’t go and took the hit, even with travel insurance (who did not reimburse btw).
Norwegian Cruise Line managers urged salespeople to spread falsehoods about coronavirus - The Boston Globe
"WASHINGTON — Norwegian Cruise Line managers urged their sales teams to share false information about the coronavirus to help land bookings with potential customers, including that the virus can’t affect people in ‘‘tropical temperatures,’’ leaked e-mails from a company whistle-blower show.
The e-mails, first reported by Miami New Times, show the lengths to which the US cruise giant’s leaders have gone to protect the company against the devastating financial impact of the pandemic, which has infected more than 121,000 people around the world and killed more than 4,300."
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"The recommended lines, written last month by a manager whose LinkedIn profile suggests the person has worked at the company for more than eight years, also compared the number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus with the flu and said, falsely, that the virus ‘‘cannot live in the amazingly warm and tropical temperatures that your cruise will be sailing to.’’
‘‘The only thing you need to worry about for your cruise is do you have enough sunscreen?’’ the manager wrote in an e-mail addressed to dozens employees in two sales offices in Florida."
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"In the e-mail of one-liners, sales representatives were told to ‘‘NOT USE THESE unless the coronavirus is brought up.’’ But the whistle-blower said the virus is callers’ top concern: ‘‘Every single call we’re getting right now is about the virus. Everyone wants to know what’s going on, what’s happening to the ships. Most people just want to cancel.’’
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"In another leaked Norwegian Cruise Line e-mail, another sales manager based at the company’s Miami office suggested that ‘‘medical fear stories’’ were being exaggerated to make ‘‘more moola for the fat cats at major media houses.’’
‘‘Focusing all of your attention is actually illogical, especially when we live in a world of daily threats and dangers anyhow,’’ the manager wrote under the headline ‘‘The coronavirus will not affect you.’’ ‘‘Fact: Coronavirus in humans is an overhyped pandemic scare.’’"
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