No, LeeAnne, cruising is not safe at all. First, you are subjected to lines for embarkcation and disembarkation. There are contagious people in those lines with potential Norovirus.
Please know that cruising is very dangerous and unhealthful You may have to fly to get to your ship (unless you are in California or Florida and you cruise to Mexico or the Carribbean where you can get Turista). If you have to fly, you have to take Aireborne because of the germs. You have to schlep your own bags, weighing 50lbs each if you fly domestic or 44 lbs each if you fly international. There are no skycaps so you can really hurt yourself because you took 40 pairs of shoes and everything in the bathroom in those two suitcases which you have to LIFT all by yourself!!! You can actually hurt your back that way. You have to go to the airport where you have to get half naked to go thru metal detectors which cannot detect terrorists. Only little old women with tweezers for their chin hairs or babies with diaper pins and business men with their swiss army knives they forgot to leave at home. The real terror is from the Xray machines which will ruin film but have made millions for Nikon and Canon. If there are no cold or other virus germs from the passengers, you can get high blood pressure from the screaming babies whose parents are too cheap to buy them seats of their own. Oh and you can starve to death because there are only peanuts and raisins to eat. Then you can be on TV and you can watch your own emergency landing if you fly Jet Blue or Alaska Air and the wheels won't do what wheels were made to do while in flight. YOu can have a heart attack that way. Very Very dangerous.
Once you board, then, there is all the cholesterol in the food. Everything is cooked in Butter claiming to be French or Lobster on the Captian's welcome night. And there is ALL the food which has been in storage on a ship for days and weeks. Who knows how sick you can get? Why take a chance??? And then the alcohol, which is unlimited at dinner on RSSC but not all inclusive, or costs an arm and a leg on something called MASS Market cruises. Too much of that stuff can get you a life sentence because you blacked out and don't remember how to get to your room and you fell asleep in the hallway at 3AM - don't forget all the doors look alike and why wake up the wrong passengers who are sleeping? Then there is all you can eat food, which can cause your clothes to fit improperly and can create a problem leaving your room. That is why so many cruise passengers go missing. They can only leave by jumping off their balcony because they have no clothes that fit. That can be very dangerous because you might not ever been seen again. And then you'd never get to platnium level where you can call home for 4 hours per cabin.
