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The Last Cruise Airs Tonite!!


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... AT 9:00PM ET ON HBO AND HBO MAX !! Must Watch !!

The Last Cruise documents the experiences of people onboard the now infamous Diamond Princess cruise ship, where an uncontained COVID-19 outbreak at the start of the pandemic became a global spectacle and a faraway symbol of the new virus and its potential to upend any sense of normalcy.

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10 minutes ago, smokeybandit said:

Unfortunately this will just be interviews, footage and reenactments of how miserable people were on the cruise back when panic over the unknown was at an all time high.

And unfortunately it will portray the cruise industry poorly

That's your opinion before watching it. Give it a chance. They might surprise you and you actually might learn something.

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19 hours ago, princevaliantus said:

That's your opinion before watching it. Give it a chance. They might surprise you and you actually might learn something.

It was a complete waste of time and I decided not to watch the entire documentary I couldn't stomach it after a while.  Instead of focusing on what went on onboard the ship perhaps they should have spent their time focusing on the failure of government.  And I'm not singling out the Japanese government alone several governments around the world turned cruise ships away even the US government left people stranded on the Grand Princess in San Francisco Bay for days then after letting the ship dock at the Port of Oakland they still wouldn't allow them to get off the ship for days.   Then there as another cruise ship on a round the world cruise that was turned away from several ports, a country in Africa finally let them dock and allowed the people to get off.

Ever since the beginning of this pandemic cruise lines have been portrayed as floating ships of hell, when the truth is if these ships would have been allowed to dock and passengers allowed to disembark and quarantine on land there would have been a different outcome for many people onboard those ships.  People in government made decisions based on fear and politics (wanting to keep their countries COVID numbers low) instead of science and compassion which did nothing but contribute to the rise in COVID cases onboard these cruise ships.  We are dealing with a novel coronavirus but the cruise lines are 100% to blame for what happened Diamond Princess and the Grand Princess and governments bare no responsibility?   I don't think so and I'm tired of people in media, in positions of power and in politics using COVID-19 and what happened on cruise ships early on in pandemic as a poster child to portray the cruise industry as unclean, unsafe,  unhealthy and something that should be avoided and shut down.

 Over 400,000 thousand people have safely cruised on multiple cruise lines around the world since cruising resumed late last summer and so far there have only been 30 cases of COVID on ships.  Yet the cruise industry is still fighting the image that has been thrust upon it because people in power refused to allow ships to dock and passengers to disembark until the situation onboard became so dire letting people off was the only choice remaining. But no one is holding anyone in government accountable for the initial decision to say no you can't dock in our country.  If this was a airliner in need of help and the pilot calls out an emergency no country, no government would turn that aircraft away, and not a single country would have made passengers remain onboard with a novel virus they would have taken all passengers off the aircraft and quarantined them on land.  Why were cruise ships not given this option or courtesy as well?  

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7 hours ago, Landry_TX said:

For anyone interested in documentaries, Wendover Productions created a documentary covering the effect of the cruise industry shutdown on Ketchikan, Alaska. 
 

https://watchnebula.com/videos/wendover-alaska

Also by Wendover, they released a video talking about the logistics of shutting down the cruise industry. Just a warning it is heavily Carnival focused for some of the challenges.

 

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