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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those who say that this is nothing more than a bad cold for most people, please remember that while you have it and experience those symptoms, you could pass it onto someone else in the community would might suffer severely from it.  [b]So why not avoid non-essential travels? [/b]
 
Also, confirmed cases in US would be a lot higher if CDC is testing at a pace similar to some other countries.  I agree that once testing kids are more widely available, confirmed cases will soar.  This is what we have seen in other countries.  [/quote]

This question keeps getting asked and I keep responding with the obvious answer: Money. Until/unless travel companies start offering refunds, there will continue to be loads of non-essential travel. I'll happily stay home if I can have my money back. So far, no luck. [/quote]

So you're willing to to throw your luck to the wind then over the money on something you absolutely don't have to do?

Forget the people you may infect. As you well know if you're hospitalized or your kids, the amount of money you'll spend for an American hospital stay (not even getting into medical evacuations) will be triple to quadruple whatever you shelled out for plane or cruise tickets.
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Except my insurance will cover that! I have travel insurance too, but it only kicks in if WE get sick, not if we cancel pre-emptively. [/quote]

LOL Go ask the the quarantined Diamond Princess passengers just how much travel insurance covered - spoiler, no medical evacuations at all which is why they're still stuck in Japan. They were begging the U.S. government to evacuate them which they finally did after 14 days but that was due to over 200 Americans being located in one central and highly public fiasco.

As for health insurance, don't make me laugh. There's a thing called deductibles which for a family plan is always still in the 1,000s. By the time you get sick you'll already be hospitalized and/or quarantined at whatever location you're traveling to.[/quote]

I have great health insurance and my hospital co pay is way way less than what I stand to lose on this trip. And the chance of being infected is low, and the chance of requiring hospitalization is lower than that. If I don't get refunded, I'm going. [/quote]

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