Travel is down, we all know that, and few are being impacted as much as the cruise lines. Everyone is trying to come up with interesting & compelling new promotional ideas to get bookings. None however are quite as bizarre as TUI Cruises in Germany who is offering a refund to brides who become pregnant on its new liner, Mein Schiff, during their honeymoon cruise.
Needless to say the brides need to provide medical evidence.
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The frustration with institutions isn’t wrong. But the explanation usually is. The problem isn’t political will or institutional timidity. It’s a design built for a world that no longer exists.
Efficiency built the care systems we have. It is not sufficient to sustain them through what’s coming. The pressures arriving into health and aged care are structural, not cyclical, and the response needs to match.
The model is sound. The assumptions have been stress-tested. And the project is still harder to deliver than the numbers suggested. The problem isn’t the modelling. It’s what the model assumes about the world.