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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think you're magnifying the risk way beyond all proportion. Your kid is in far more danger getting in your car every day (and especially if driving him/herself) than of a) catching Wuhan coronavirus at a New Year's parade and b) dying of it.

Even in San Francisco, I wouldn't not go or not send my kid. [/quote]

Well, a) there isn't growing news about people dying from the everyday flu and b) it seems to me that this is about more than my kid - it's about best practices and containment. 
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[b]They are dying - this season has been terrible. They just don’t make headlines because it doesn’t sound like the plot to a movie[/b].

I think I would send my kid and emphasize hand washing.  There aren’t many cases in the Bay Area. Plus, worst case, most healthy people don’t die from this - it’s the elderly and already ill who actually die. [/quote]

I just read that the "normal" flu has a mortality rate of .1% - where the CV is 2-4%. Is this really a situation where we are succumbing to sensationalism, or is it truly a risk that ought to be mitigated as best as possible? [/quote]

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