Anonymous
Post 03/04/2020 17:57     Subject: Re:MASTER Cancel Travel b/c of COVID-19 Questions Thread
Welp, that lawyer that infected his wife, his son, and his neighbor has now been confirmed to have infected 5 family friends plus an additional child.

Still think its an overreaction?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8072159/Amazon-employee-companys-Seattle-headquarters-tests-positive-coronavirus.html

A New York family of five who are friends with the Manhattan attorney who infected his wife, two children and a neighbor have now also tested positive to coronavirus - as 1,000 others that may have also come into contact with him are ordered to self-quarantine.
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2020 15:08     Subject: Re:MASTER Cancel Travel b/c of COVID-19 Questions Thread
Anonymous wrote:We are also holing off on making travel plans for the summer/rest of the year for the time being. We originally had plans to go somewhere outside US.


You and everyone else. I'm also taking notes on which travel companies are treating their customers well, and which ones are not. This will surely not be the last pandemic we face in our lifetime.
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2020 14:46     Subject: Re:MASTER Cancel Travel b/c of COVID-19 Questions Thread
We are also holing off on making travel plans for the summer/rest of the year for the time being. We originally had plans to go somewhere outside US.
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2020 14:41     Subject: Re:MASTER Cancel Travel b/c of COVID-19 Questions Thread
Anonymous wrote:For those of you cancelling spring break trips, what are you planning to do with your kids instead? I'm torn. Travelling may not be the best idea, but I'm dreading telling my kids that we're not going to go on our trip, but instead we are doing nothing at home. And if we do decide to go out locally, well then, why the hell did we not just go ahead with our travel plans? Ugh, my kids have a two-week spring break coming up. What am I supposed to do with them?


Uh, going to a park where a few dozen people are walking around in fresh air and never coming into direct contact is different than sitting for hours in a tube with recycled air with people who are coming and going from all over the country and the world.
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2020 14:39     Subject: Re:MASTER Cancel Travel b/c of COVID-19 Questions Thread
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: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. So why not avoid non-essential travels?

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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2020 14:38     Subject: Re:MASTER Cancel Travel b/c of COVID-19 Questions Thread
And by the time the Diamond Princess passengers were medically evacuated for free by the U.S. goverment 10% of the passenger list had been infected by COVID-19. Imagine that.
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2020 14:37     Subject: Re:MASTER Cancel Travel b/c of COVID-19 Questions Thread
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: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. So why not avoid non-essential travels?

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.


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.


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.


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.


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.
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2020 14:36     Subject: MASTER Cancel Travel b/c of COVID-19 Questions Thread
Anonymous wrote:Going to present at a giant health conference in Orlando next week (40,000+ attendees). Scheduled to leave on Saturday, conference lasts a week. A bunch of major vendors have backed out, but apparently it's still on. Boss says I can back out if I want.

DH and toddler are supposed to come with and hang with my inlaws, but we're all reconsidering now.


40,000 attendees from all over? I'd cancel....and it's a health conference!
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2020 14:34     Subject: Re:MASTER Cancel Travel b/c of COVID-19 Questions Thread
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: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. So why not avoid non-essential travels?

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.


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.


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.


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.
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2020 14:30     Subject: Re:MASTER Cancel Travel b/c of COVID-19 Questions Thread
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: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. So why not avoid non-essential travels?

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.


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.


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.
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2020 14:29     Subject: MASTER Cancel Travel b/c of COVID-19 Questions Thread
Going to present at a giant health conference in Orlando next week (40,000+ attendees). Scheduled to leave on Saturday, conference lasts a week. A bunch of major vendors have backed out, but apparently it's still on. Boss says I can back out if I want.

DH and toddler are supposed to come with and hang with my inlaws, but we're all reconsidering now.
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2020 14:24     Subject: Re:MASTER Cancel Travel b/c of COVID-19 Questions Thread
Anonymous wrote: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. So why not avoid non-essential travels?

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.


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.
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2020 14:21     Subject: Re:MASTER Cancel Travel b/c of COVID-19 Questions Thread
Ok people. Flight next Monday to LAX for one night and then Hawaii the next day. Flight back through Seattle from Hawaii a week later. Purely a pleasure trip and I am going alone (my spouse and kids are staying in DC). Cancel?
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2020 14:11     Subject: Re:MASTER Cancel Travel b/c of COVID-19 Questions Thread
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. So why not avoid non-essential travels?

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.
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2020 14:09     Subject: Re:MASTER Cancel Travel b/c of COVID-19 Questions Thread
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I go to water parks and i am not really freaked out about coronavirus.

That said, pandemics aside those indoor water parks are always a little gross haha.


Wouldn't chlorine kill it?


DP. I'm going to Disney and wondering if I wouldn't do better in Disney waterparks vs. the theme parks. Both full of people but at the water park, we'll be dunked in chlorinated water every minute or so. And Disney heavily chlorinates their water.