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  • A year ago, infected cruise passengers foretold our future. Now, the courts are deciding who’s to blame.

    03/14/2021 11:33:28 AM PDT · by Capt. Tom · 32 replies
    South Florida Sun Sentinel ^ | March 14, 2021 | Andrew Boryga,
    A year ago, before anyone knew how COVID-19 would obliterate our way of life, we got a taste by following the saga of thousands of cruise passengers stranded at sea. As desperate ships full of these sick and dying Americans and foreign nationals circled the coasts of the U.S., debates raged about what to do. Eventually, the passengers were accepted like war-torn refugees. They became some of the first positive COVID-19 cases in our nation, and the first to die. Now, the legal system is trying to decide whom to blame. A wave of federal lawsuits filed by former passengers...