Book Board Chat

Well Mrs Briguy, her sister, and my brother in law all have a cough,sniffles, and headaches (somehow, I don't). Rut-roh! So they took off, sat in a queue for 2 hours at a drive through covid test site, and just got back the results. All are negative. Apparently the good 'ol traditional flu still exists too.

Then as I'm typing this, for the second time today an official goob-r-mint PSA warning has played on my computers background radio. I'm sternly warned to NOT book any tickets on a cruise ship. Defy what they advise and I'll for certain die horribly of covid along with my loved ones and my pets! Say whaaaa?!? Have these bureaucratic numb nuts ever heard of an airplane? In case they haven't, and one of them stumbles into this chat, let me enlighten you. An "airplane" is a long steel tube where passengers are jammed in closer together then sardines in a tin. For that matter, pull the wings off and add wheels underneath, and its called "Amtrak". Are they serious? I'm being advised that planes and trains are perfectly OK, but get on a cruise ship and its a dangerous X sport? Perhaps frequent poster here Jim, who likes to cruise, can detail for us what makes cruise ships so different?

My guesses?

1) Cruise ships being basically large floating 24/7 buffets, its those communal buffets that worry our overlords.

2) The cruise industry has told Fauci to go pound sand we're gonna sail anyway, and thus the PSA are a form of punishment.

3) The cruise industry has been caught contributing to Republican candidates, thus they must be smitten.

Honestly, what gives? If I owned a cruise ship...I'd be seriously cheesed off.