Not sure if this is best here or the stock market thread.

Anybody else puzzled why the cruise ship industry is so high up on the list of needing to be bailed out?

I have heard the term often, "no fault of their own" regarding this virus sparked economic downturn.

Doesn't seem the virus is much impacted by saving the cruise industry, actually I think they deserve some focus for being the initial petri dishes, and being so slow to react to their contribution to actually magnifying it.

I mean the cruise industry is a bunch of foreign? flagged billion dollar ships, manned mainly by small foreign nation workers, that dock in the US to pick up US passengers.

How is their existence important economically to helping the millions out of or soon to be out of work in the US?


Reality check, that half the population is smarter then 50% of the people and it's a constantly contested fact.