To coin a phrase, "What can go right?"

I’d think those ships are going to be more than half-empty, after people have heard the story of the Diamond Princess, where a two-week cruise turned into a bonus two weeks of being quarantined in your cabin. There’s also the matter that, even if they manage to miraculously have no COVID-19 on board, how do they know that the countries on their itinerary will even let them dock? For all we know, those countries might be in a crisis situation with the virus themselves at that point.

stuck on the ship for months.

Since that possibility doesn’t appeal to me I probably will not go on a cruise.

I would imagine there are a lot of people who feel the same as me.

Sounds like a blast! "I'll take the starboard natural selection balconied statesroom, please!"

On second thought, I'm sure they can find a couple of thousand people willing to risk death for a chocolate buffet.

Maybe, maybe not.

I’m sure a lot of high schools are to, but will they? A lot of time to see.

...the governor says it's too soon to rule out school come next term. And they're being extremely cautious in the approach.
In a daily briefing he said he'd like to able to do that, but it's way too soon to predict either way.

take one of those cruises!

I'd take the cruise if it was me, my wife, our pets, and they'd dock wherever I wanted as quickly as they could get there.
It would be like being super rich for a week.
I'd never go on a cruise otherwise, pandemic or not!

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The mega-ships that carry five or eight thousand people do.

The only two cruises I've taken have been on Holland America, whose ships typically have a capacity of 2,000 or fewer people.

Heck I was on a cruise March 1 to March 18 to Hawaii, and we all felt vastly safer on board than after we got off.

Asking for a little help here.

get on one for any amount of money.

launch a cruise. I see no chance these are going to be profitable. They would be better off keeping these ships docked and minimizing expenses until they can fill a ship.