Would you go on a cruise thats main selling point is to celebrate your FREEDOM

[kimbutgar]

Got a post card for a cruise leaving from Memphis to New Orleans going down the Mississippi River.

This cruise line advertised:

Free from masks
Free from social distancing
Free from pre-cruise testing
Free from quarantining

Aboard our vessels you are FREE to smile, FREE to mingle and socialize, FREE to explore ashore and free to laugh, dance and have fun!

All I have do is book my voyage to take advantage of FREEDOM!!!!!!

When I got this card at first I was amazed how much FREEDOM this cruise could offer me!
Not !!! There is no friggin way I would go on any cruise that advertises so much FREEEEEDDDOOOMMMM! I could just imagine this would attract a lot of white MAGAS and people of color would not be welcome. It would be true torture on that boat.

[EYESORE 9001]

1. Cruises were bad enough before COVID-19 arrived

Food poisoning, e. coli, and respiratory viruses thrive in the confining environment of a cruise ship. You couldn’t PAY me to take a cruise.

[sakabatou]

3. +10

[jimfields33]

14. I've been on 20 cruises and haven't experienced a single one of those items.

I’m hoping 2022 we will be able to cruise again.

[retread]

19. I stood under a 450ft tower in the middle of a lightning storm and did not get hit. I swam across

an alligator infested river and did not get bitten. You see where I'm going here?

[jimfields33]

20. Yep. Keep experiencing life's adventures

[sakabatou]

2. Absolutely FUCKING NOT!

[blm]

4. Lol. No one equates being confined on a cruise ship with freedom.

[IA8IT]

5. Here's a borchure "Ship of the Damned"

https://www.amazon.com/Ship-Damned-James-F-David/dp/0812576462

On October 28, 1943, a U.S. Navy ship was successfully teleported with disastrous effects on its crew. Crewmen died, developed rare or yet unidentified diseases, and most horrifying of all, some became fused to the metal, their arms and legs protruding from the bulkhead.

A team of psychologists has gathered at a small university to study and analyze the same reoccurring dream of seven completely different people. The dream involves a large navy ship in a vast desert with soldiers trapped inside the bulkheads. Slowly, by depriving the dreamers of REM sleep, the dreams are killing the dreamers.

[kimbutgar]

7. I think this was made into a movie years ago

The plot line sounds familiar.

But yeah this would be a major ship of the damned!

[sir pball]

15. The Philadelphia Experiment

It was a conspiracy theory long before it was a movie. It spawned the Montauk Project conspiracy theory, which is the basis of Stranger Things...like, ST so blatantly copied it that the early title for thr series was "Montauk".

I'm kind of surprised it hasn't gained new traction with the Qooks, it is all about children being kidnapped for nefarious shadow-government purposes...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_Experiment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montauk_Project

[lapfog_1]

18. And it was all based on a misunderstanding

The ship was "degaussed" (wrapped in copper cable to which a charge was applied to remove residual magnetic properties as much as possible so that it could operate in waters where there were magnetic torpedoes). The people doing the "experiment" told the crew that it would make the ship "invisible" to the enemy.

And the crew made up the rest of story by letting their imaginations run wild.

"According to Edward Dudgeon, who served in the U.S. Navy aboard the USS Engstrom, which was dry-docked in the Philadelphia Naval Yard while the Eldridge was, both ships did have classified devices on board. They were neither invisibility cloaks nor teleportation drives designed by aliens, but instead, they scrambled the magnetic signatures of ships using the degaussing technique, which provided protection from magnetic torpedoes aboard U-boats.

How Stuff Works suggested that the "green glow" reported by witnesses that day could be explained by an electric storm or St. Elmo's Fire which, in addition to being an American coming-of-age film starring the Brat Pack, is a weather phenomenon in which plasma is created in a strong electric field, giving off a bright glow, almost like fire.

Finally, inland canals connected Norfolk to Philadelphia, allowing a ship to travel between the two in a few hours." (from military.com)

[sir pball]

25. Oh, I was fascinated by it in college

Still am, actually. I was at college in The Hamptons where I first heard about it, I was in the car that Saturday heading out for a looksee. I'll freely admit that I have seen some random/weird stuff out at Montauk (actually, not just me), but the Project is a level of woo that I can't even begin to understand. TWA800, aliens, interdimensional/time travel...it actually makes Q look sane. Of course, I also worked at Brookhaven so maybe that's just what they want me to say

[Shermann]

6. Not sure...all-inclusive cruise drink package?

I should be free from those oppressive bar tabs.

[kimbutgar]

8. Yes the front part of the card says open bars and lounges

What could go wrong with those type of people who’d go on that cruise ?

[Shermann]

10. One could jump off the back of the ship to be free from involuntary locomotion and buoyancy! nt

[Pobeka]

9. Free from proof you wont' kill other passengers with pathogen

Does it say that too? !

[Ms. Toad]

11. "free from pre-cruise testing" would rule it out for me.

Unless they expressly require verifiably documented vaccination for everyone (and ** pre-cruise testing for children under 11 or anyone claiming an exemption from vaccination for any reason + daily or every other day testing for those same individuals)

[Scrivener7]

12. Free to die YOUR way.

[KentuckyWoman]

13. I would go if

I could be free to throw anyone I consider a jackass overboard.

[jmowreader]

26. We can't have that, now can we?

The beleaguered scow would come back into port with you, a couple of enginemen, a deck hand and the third officer the only people you didn’t throw over the side.

[KentuckyWoman]

28. Entirely likely.

I may be small but family will tell you I don't suffer jackasses kindly.

[malaise]

16. Being on a ship with hundreds or thousands of complete strangers

(with no way to escape at will) is already my definition of the absence of freedom. Upi wi;; never ever see me on a cruise.
That said. to advertise a cruise as if public health priorities are some threat to freedom is offensive on steroids.

[Turbineguy]

17. I want freedom

from the laws of physics. I want to walk on water.

Anything else is tyranny (or was that tranny?)

[roamer65]

21. Freedom to catch SARS-CoV-2.

Freedom to die from it.

Go right ahead, anti-vax morons, please do.

[Iggo]

22. I woulda never went on one BEFORE covid.

That policy hasn’t changed.

[3catwoman3]

23. Being on the introverted side, I find no appeal at all...

…to the idea of going on a cruise, even if there were no risk of illness.

[LiberalFighter]

24. Freedom to be locked away on a ship? Hell no!

[jmowreader]

27. Unless they have FREE bourbon, I'll exercise my FREEDOM to not go

I’d rather be locked in a room with Donald Trump than go on a cruise…at the very least I could perform a little wall-to-wall counseling on our esteemed KGB agent of a former president.

[luckone]

29. Hell no ! Everything you said