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Most everyone we knew onboard got sick when we got home....some nearly dying. An anonymous employee reported that many of the cruise ship’s employees couldn’t even talk to the media or else risk losing their job. At its worse, suicides became common on cruise ships. Testimonials against the handling of events included Dr. Arnold Hopland, who was stuck with his wife on the Diamond Princess.
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The Icon of the Seas is the Linda Loman of cruise ships, exclaiming that attention must be paid. I am constantly told by my fellow passengers that “everybody here has a story.” Yes, I want to reply, but everybody everywhere has a story. You, the reader of this essay, have a story, and yet you’re not inclined to jump on a cruise ship and, like Duck Necklace, tell your story to others at great pitch and volume. Maybe what they’re saying is that everybody on this ship wants to have a bigger, more coherent, more interesting story than the one they’ve been given. Maybe that’s why there’s so much signage on the doors around me attesting to marriages spent on the sea. Maybe that’s why the Royal Caribbean newsletter slipped under my door tells me that “this isn’t a vacation day spent—it’s bragging rights earned.” Maybe that’s why I’m so lonely.
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The first passenger to have died on the ship happened on February 11th. Despite this, the same quarantine measures kept set in place as the disease kept slowly spreading. It was, as self-described by the guests, an experiment of human ‘Petri dishes’ as healthy passengers quite often mixed in close with the sick. There was no real gauge for the safety of their air filtration system. Indeed, the documentary quickly highlights the lack of communication, poor response, and overall, lack of control regarding the spread of this disease. Especially, when taking into consideration actions regarding a cruise ship corporation that valued profits over its passengers’ safety.
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The very color of my Suite Sky SeaPass Card, an oceanic blue as opposed to the cloying royal purple of the standard non-Suite passenger, will soon provoke envy and admiration. But as high as my status may be, there are those on board who have much higher status still, and I will soon learn to bow before them. We were on a cruise on the Adventure of the Seas and disembarked in FLL in late February - 23rd or 24th I think. Anyway, when we got to our hotel our son came down with something.
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For $75,000, one multifloor suite even comes with its own slide between floors, so that a family may enjoy this particular terror in private. There is a quiet splendor to the Suite Neighborhood. I see fewer stickers and signs and drawings than in my own neighborhood—for example, MIKE AND DIANA PROUDLY SERVED U.S. MARINE CORPS RETIRED. No one here needs to announce their branch of service or rank; they are simply Suites, and this is where they belong. Once again, despite my hard work and perseverance, I have been disallowed from the true American elite. I could not understand English well enough then to catch the nuances of that seafaring program, but I knew that there were differences in the status of the passengers, and that sometimes those differences made them sad.
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Of course we were all treated like lepers when we got home...everyone was afraid of us and we didn't even let on that we got sick after we got home. We self quarantined for close to a month when we got home. I just finished watching and it is very damning of the cruise lines. In 2018, Doctor Kadlec was one of the first to testify in congress about our ill-preparedness for the next pandemic.
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(This appears to be the actual name of the island.) A comedian at the nightclub opined on what his perfect day at CocoCay would look like—receiving oral sex while learning that his ex-wife had been killed in a car crash (big laughter). But the reality of the island is far less humorous than that. In keeping with the aquatic theme, I attend a show at the AquaDome. To the sound of “Live and Let Die,” a man in a harness gyrates to and fro in the sultry air. I saw something very similar in the back rooms of the famed Berghain club in early-aughts Berlin. Soon another harnessed man is gyrating next to the first.
There is no imposed order, no cogent thought, and, for those who do not harbor a totalitarian sense of gigantomania, no visual mercy. This is the biggest cruise ship ever built, and I have been tasked with witnessing its inaugural voyage. What was not at all mentioned in the movie was that we had over 2000 people on the Coral Princess in South America. We started our journey on March 5th, 2020 and WE didn't get to go home until April 6th.
Anyone in the other country could return home even though borders were closed. In total, the Diamond Princess harbored over 3500 people, with over 700 confirmed cases, and a dozen reported deaths. Yet, by Feb 20th, the Trump administration treated it more as a PR crisis than a potential pandemic. In many ways, foreshadowing all the things that would go wrong. Corporations such as Carnival filed registries under Bermuda to avoid our own laws for taxes and regulations regarding occupational health.
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We meet four men, college students, who got a great deal on tickets for the Diamond Princess, a 15-day excursion through South Asia that included multiple stops and a Chinese New Year celebration. News broke that China was enforcing a national lockdown in order to contain Covid outbreaks; the Diamond Princess made its scheduled Hong Kong stop and there, a passenger disembarked and later tested positive. The New Year celebration happened inside the ship instead of on land. The cruise continued to Vietnam, where passengers disembarked for a cave tour, and we see throngs of people crowded together inside the gorgeous natural setting. Maybe the guys shouldn’t have gone on the excursion, but information was sparse and sketchy.
The movie starts well with lots of personal footage taken by passengers documenting their travel. As time goes on and they are stranded longer and longer, trapped inside tiny cabins, with no separation between the sick and not sick, everyone felt like they were just waiting to get sick. The film does well to convey these fears and dangers passengers and employees suffered.
These days, fewer and fewer Americans wear masks in most restaurants and stores. Yet, just this past May, Covid in the US had reached its milestone millionth death, far surpassing the death totals of the AIDS epidemic, and officially, marking Covid as the deadliest event in US history. As a coddled passenger with a suite, I feel like I am starting to understand what it means to have a rank and be constantly reminded of it.
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As an immigrant, I feel duty-bound to complete the tasks I am paid for, which means reaching out and trying to understand my fellow cruisers. So I put on a normal James Perse T-shirt and headed for one of the bars on the Royal Promenade—the Schooner Bar, it was called, if memory serves correctly. Usually the essayist commissioned to take to the sea is in their first or second flush of youth and is ready to sharpen their wit against the hull of the offending vessel.
I believe that anyone who works for Royal Caribbean should be entitled to immediate American citizenship. They already speak English better than most of the passengers and, per the Serbian lady’s sales pitch above, better understand what America is as well. Crew members like my Panamanian cabin attendant seem to work 24 hours a day.
Everything from why governments reacted the way they did, to the medical handlings of it, to stories about the doctors, nurses, and public health workers I knew working through the thick of it. Thanks to a movie screening for Hell of a Cruise, courtesy of Peacock, I’ve finally begun writing this story. The first of which will be this piece with much more to come in the upcoming months. It is Monday, September 12th, and I’m in an Uber on my way to the premiere of ‘Hell of a Cruise’. The driver tells me that, as of last week, they’re no longer required to wear masks to drive. This is my first time back in Manhattan since 2019.
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