With an open criminal investigation in Australia and hundreds of thousands of outraged customers and their friends and family members who will likely never voluntarily board another cruise for as long as they live, Carnival Corp - the world's biggest cruise line operator - is planning to launch its first post-corona cruises on Aug. 1, with 8 ships leaving from ports in Miami, Cape Canaveral and Galveston, Texas.

The first few replies sum up what we imagine to be the sentiments of many Americans who followed the horrifying reports about what we dubbed "a nightmare at sea": Every time a new outbreak aboard a cruise ship seemed to explode into an international incident, the cruise line was seemingly inevitably a Carnival subsidiary, particularly the "Princess Cruises" line that drew the ire of Australian public health officials and - later - prosecutors.