Nearly one in 10 passengers aboard the Pride of Hawaii cruise ship were stricken with the deadly Norwalk virus during a recent cruise between Hawaii’s islands.
The Norwalk virus isn’t really deadly. But if you have the virus you may wish you were dead. Nausea, stomach cramps, and diarrhea are the basic symptoms, sure to ruin a trip around the islands, easily exacerbated by the cramped quarters and motion of a ship at sea.
I feel a sense of empathy for tourists when it rains for a week in Waikiki. After all, they’re paying a few hundred dollars a day to sit and watch it rain.
Cruises, though, are a bargain compared to being cooped up in a Waikiki hotel room with nothing to do and no place to go. Contracting a virus and being sick for days on a cruise ship is far less expensive, on a per-day basis, of course.
Waikiki hotels, to the best of my knowledge, don’t issue ‘weather vouchers’ to their patrons during a storm. Bad weather isn’t the fault of the hotel’s owners, right? So, why did Norwegian Cruise Line issue a ‘voucher credit’ to those afflicted by the paradise virus?
Was the Norwalk virus the fault of NCL? Of course not. Why do they have to pay up when passengers don’t wash their hands? Besides, the virus probably came from diseased citizens of Norwalk, Ohio who are solely to blame for its occurrence.
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