tinkerbelletreasure
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- Jan 27, 2010
Unless someone in your party has a compromised immune system, I wouldn’t cancel because of it.
There is absolutely NO reason to cancel a trip because of Coronavirus. People are freaking out over it with little justification. The flu has killed 8,000 people in the US this year, but no one is cancelling a trip due to flu. It is just another germ folks. It isn't airborne and has a low fatality rate.
Where did you read that it is airborne? Everything I have read says droplet transmission only. The flu is currently accepted to be a droplet transmission virus, NOT an airborne virus, although new research is suggesting that some strands may be headed that way. Where did you read 10X the death rate of flu, because I have not seen that either. Most scientists are a saying it is too early and the sample size too small to make those kinds of determinations.So, just to fact check - it is airborne (similar to flu) and its fatality rate is 10x seasonal flu - and no vaccine protection or antiviral treatment available as it is novel. But I agree, infections in the US aren't at the critical point where it is prevalent enough to warrant changing plans. Many governments are now taking it extremely seriously (first federally mandated quarantine in 50+ years, major borders closed, etc.), if major country governments are that concerned, so am I.
this.There is absolutely NO reason to cancel a trip because of Coronavirus. People are freaking out over it with little justification. The flu has killed 8,000 people in the US this year, but no one is cancelling a trip due to flu. It is just another germ folks. It isn't airborne and has a low fatality rate.
Yea, as pretty much everybody else has already said. Zero reason to even consider cancelling IMO.Hmm, guess my question was relegated to this backwater thread. Here is what I posted:
Is it going to fizzle out? Will refund policies change if this turns into a pandemic? Am I being too alarmist? I keep hearing flu is deadlier, but then healthcare workers are dying at an alarming rate. That doesn't happen with the flu I guess because there is a flu vaccine.
Actually that could potentially be good / better news. If over 100,000 people have been infected and only 1000 have died (saying that number being reported is correct) that gives you much lower mortality rate.Also, after reading a few responses here I think people need to be a little more concerned. I work with a Chinese national who said he has been hearing (not reported by govt) at least 100,000 have come down with it just in Wuhan Province.
Not trying to cause a debate but if they are not being truthful about the total number infected, then they are also not being truthful about the number of deaths.Actually that could potentially be good / better news. If over 100,000 people have been infected and only 1000 have died (saying that number being reported is correct) that gives you much lower mortality rate.