So all the cruise ship companies didn't want to pay US taxes

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87. I don't agree that it was stupid on March 7...

I was in a hotel room overlooking the cruise ships in Sydney Harbour on March 11 (I went to see New Order!!), and we wandered down to Circular Quay the next morning to where a Royal Caribbean ship was loading up with passengers. My daughter and I watched people checking in and both agreed we maybe would go if it were us. If you'd asked us a week later, we'd have said it was not only stupid, but suicidal to go on a cruise. That's how quickly things changed. Passengers on cruises got stuck. Some were on cruises that had started in January, back when there was no idea this would happen. Others maybe had a niggle that things weren't great, but took the chance and went anyway. Many of them are elderly. At least the passengers have been removed from the 8 cruise ships off the coast of Sydney, but there's still thousands of crew on board and the ships should be allowed to dock (mind you, Sydney doesn't have the parking spaces for 8 big ships) and the crew be repatriated to their home countries...