MASTER Cancel Travel b/c of COVID-19 Questions Thread

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't go on a cruise ship and I wouldn't travel to a country with a current outbreak (northern Italy, Iran, china,) but otherwise yes we will travel.

The economic impact of not rebelling due to fear will lead to tons of unemoyment, families losing their homes, suicides, kids going hungry. There is a large segment of working poor who work in the travel, hospitality, retail and service industries who will be severely negatively impacted by everyone staying home.

Unless there is an actual risk, we will continue to travel. We have family currently travelling internationally right now and more leaving next week.

Define actual risk. There is community spread in the Seattle area. There is almost certainly community spread in the SF Bay Area. I'm not saying you should be making one decision or another, but there is actual risk (of varying levels) with almost all travel right now.

Actual risk is an area where travel is now limited due to an outbreak. If borders are being closed to a region, we won't go there.

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A coworker and I are set to man a booth at a trade show in Salt Lake City next week. Traveling through Seattle. I seem to be the only one thinking it’s a bad idea.

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Hershey PA for spring break - staying in the lodge.

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Have a trip in 2 weeks to Disney, still planning on going but keeping on an eye on things. The only thing that gives me pause is that there are a lot of people at DW from all over, large crowds. It could spread easily there.

But my kids have spring break -- if I cancel, it seems crazy to hole up ourselves at home. So we'd still be out and about sometimes in our city which has its own fair share of tourists. Does it make sense to cancel the trip because of crowds at DW only to mingle with crowds at home?

So I'm watching and waiting for now.

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Plan on going to old town Quebec/Montreal for a family vacation. Would you cancel? Scheduled mid April. Thank you.

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Anonymous wrote:Anthony Fauci, a world expert on infectious disease, was just on CNN sounding realistic.
No cause for panic. Wash hands.

No by all means we should cease doing anything and crash the economy to avoid a virus no worse than an nasty cold for most people

Who did you hear that from?

Everyone who is literally canceling all possible plans and forgoing regular activity! There’s a reason the markets crashed this week

No who told you that it’s no worse than a nasty cold? Surely not the 3000+ people who have died. Turn off Fox News.

Out of how many people who got it! Yes, doe 99.98% of people who contract it it will not be a big deal.

The problem with this line of thinking is it’s individually centered. IOW, typically American.

While it may be like a bad cold for you so you will continue with your normal activities- work, shopping, parties, travel, school, etc. You will continue to pass this onto to many more people. People who may not fare a lucky as you or perhaps their kids may not or their parents may not.

You may survive barely scathed, yet you may have contributed to the deaths and/or very serious illnesses of others because of your lack of precautions.

That’s why containment is so important. It’s ridiculously difficult to give up our freedoms temporarily for the greater good of our communities but it’s the only proven method that has worked so far. We have no medications for it, no vaccine for it. We don’t have hospital resources for it.

Look at Washington state right now. They bought a motel to provide a make shift hospital. Has that ever happened because of something “no worse than a nasty cold”?

+1 Also 99.98 is way off. 80% of individuals may not require hospitalization, but how many of those in those in the 5 villages in Italy will not have lost at least some family members or friends? Same here. Your community could be affected if you don't take precautions.

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Anonymous wrote:Disney World, last week in March. All healthy.

Bad idea, especially if your kids are young enough to want to interact with characters. I saw a video of this posted and it reminded me of how those characters go hugging from kid to kid. It's probably a bad idea even without a novel virus going around. I have a trip planned to Disney in November, and I will be flexible. If we have to cancel, we will. Time will tell.

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This might take out Trump, Sanders, or Biden. They travel all over, meet with international people, have crowds around them, shake a lot of hands and all are older men. Who knows what underlying health conditions they have. Campaigning with COVID might land one of them in hospital.

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Turks and Caicos, the last week in March-April 5. Wondering if we should cancel.

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Anonymous wrote:St. Kitts next week, transferring through Miami one way and PR the other way

This is the only trip on this thread I would consider. Although, I’ve been to St. Kitts and Nevis and would not go back.

St Kitts and Nevus are gorgeous!!!!

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Anonymous wrote:This might take out Trump, Sanders, or Biden. They travel all over, meet with international people, have crowds around them, shake a lot of hands and all are older men. Who knows what underlying health conditions they have. Campaigning with COVID might land one of them in hospital.

Bloomberg too. He's 78.

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Have a long scheduled trip to London and Paris, week of 3/21. I told friends we might cancel and they were so surprised, saying it’s no worse than the flu. I’m worried about things getting rapidly worse while we are there and getting quarantined. Thoughts?

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I am really struggling. I know we should't go on our cruise but we are beyong the point of getting any money back unless the cruise line cancels. So its highly unlikely we will go, but eating $6K just really really hurts. Like could have bought a few appliances for my kitchen hurts. Ugh. We can "afford" it, but are not so wealthy it doesn't hurt.

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Anonymous wrote:I am really struggling. I know we should't go on our cruise but we are beyong the point of getting any money back unless the cruise line cancels. So its highly unlikely we will go, but eating $6K just really really hurts. Like could have bought a few appliances for my kitchen hurts. Ugh. We can "afford" it, but are not so wealthy it doesn't hurt.

I don’t think you shouldn’t go.

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Anonymous wrote:What do you think about someone traveling - nonessentially - to king county wa?

Heck NO