Thoughts on cruising out of the Caribbean

Royal Caribbean has now announced that two ships will start sailing this summer with embarkation ports in Nassau and Bermuda.

They have been very clear that these steps are being taken, because the CDC is dragging their feet and refusing to tell cruise lines what they need to do to cruise from US ports, much less allow them to start running test cruises and making progress.

So the CDC would rather a bunch of Americans fly on a plane to a foreign country, be on a ship for a week, then get back on a plane to fly back to the US... then have cruises depart from the US where they would have much tighter controls over who can and cannot sail.

I just don't understand what the CDC is thinking here.