David Foster Wallace was very funny, but saw the disappointing and sad nature of just about everything. He's sort of the pinnacle of depression literature before widespread anti-depressant use.
Maybe we should listen to the people who warned us about certain aspects of society that could have potentially led to the need for widespread anti-depressant use.
Look at a cruise ship as akin to a floating, polluting, germ-infested mall and I think you'll never have any desire to step foot on one.
I look at it like a germ-infested McDonalds ball pit for adults. I felt pretty uncomfortable on a cruise ship even before COVID. Now, I would break out in a sweat just looking at one.
Not that Covid is anything to be dismissed, but I'd be way more afraid of Norovirus. Critically, Covid doesn't last long on surfaces, so the chances of touching a contaminate surface and getting infected from that is small. Meanwhile Norovirus can last for up to 4 weeks on a surface and leads to vomiting and diarrhea, which sounds extremely not-fun in a small confined space, with a limited number of bathrooms.
Nowhere has an unlimited number of bathrooms.
I don't know about you, but I don't use more than one bathroom at a time. Thus if number of bathrooms >= people, I wouldn't call them unlimited, but given an extremely contagious disease that causes vomiting and diarrhea, that sounds a lot better than having to share 1 bathroom with multiple people!