Anonymous wrote:wow.

LA Times recently published a story about coronavirus... and xenophobia.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-02-03/coronavirus-outbreak-narrative-xenophobia?fbclid=IwAR2Kf4xrWTZeMTFoFuCFcDJu4GbwFd5qnkryfzh8u-virrKzQUZUo2kkNUU

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Anonymous wrote:I would absolutely cancel.

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OP, the people making light of this and saying, “FFS, just go!” are probably the same people who called the McLean parents “racist” when they spoke up and insisted the Chinese student visits be canceled (in light of the virus). And it turns out, the McLean parents were absolutely right to cancel. Trust your gut, not anonymous posters trying to shame you.

That case was different. Completely different. Shame on you.

Shame on YOU for try to shame people in the midst of a health crisis. Do you live under a rock??

Anonymous wrote:Of course not.

I’m avoiding Chinese restaurants and Asian nail salons.

Anonymous wrote:Ok. Would you eat in a Chinese restaurant?

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Anonymous wrote:I would absolutely cancel.

+1
OP, the people making light of this and saying, “FFS, just go!” are probably the same people who called the McLean parents “racist” when they spoke up and insisted the Chinese student visits be canceled (in light of the virus). And it turns out, the McLean parents were absolutely right to cancel. Trust your gut, not anonymous posters trying to shame you.

That case was different. Completely different. Shame on you.

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Anonymous wrote:I would absolutely cancel.

+1
OP, the people making light of this and saying, “FFS, just go!” are probably the same people who called the McLean parents “racist” when they spoke up and insisted the Chinese student visits be canceled (in light of the virus). And it turns out, the McLean parents were absolutely right to cancel. Trust your gut, not anonymous posters trying to shame you.

Thanks, pp.

I'm not familiar with visits being cancelled. These were exchange students?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm the microbiologist who explained some basic comparative virology on another coronavirus thread.

Just as a matter of principle, I wouldn't encourage people to travel by air, internationally, or to a US city with confirmed cases of the virus. My concern is not with the Chinese community at the location, but simply that planes, airports and crowds in a city with confirmed cases is just increasing your risk unnecessarily.

This is out of an abundance of caution. There is a very small chance your child will be infected, and the mortality isn't has high as SARS or MERS. Adults still need to travel for work all the time. Unless your child has a respiratory fragility or an underlying medical condition, he will likely pull through anyway, even if he gets sick. But... why take that chance?

Now, if this concert counts towards a grade, I advise you to contact the organizers to see how amenable they are to changing their plans.

If your child goes, make sure he understands that he must wash his hands frequently, particularly before eating, and NOT TOUCH HIS FACE.

Thank you for chiming in. Curious about infection and transmission - does a virus like this always make a person ill, or can they "just" be a carrier, and infect others unwittingly? Or is that not something that has been assessed yet?

I agree that adults are traveling for work - and hopefully taking best precautions wen they do. But this is a group of teens. We can tell them until we are blue in the face the best practices they should be using and yet, at the end of the day, they are teens. My confidence level of that happening is about nil.

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If your child goes, make sure he understands that he must wash his hands frequently, particularly before eating, and NOT TOUCH HIS FACE.

Anonymous wrote:I'm the microbiologist who explained some basic comparative virology on another coronavirus thread.

Just as a matter of principle, I wouldn't encourage people to travel by air, internationally, or to a US city with confirmed cases of the virus. My concern is not with the Chinese community at the location, but simply that planes, airports and crowds in a city with confirmed cases is just increasing your risk unnecessarily.

This is out of an abundance of caution. There is a very small chance your child will be infected, and the mortality isn't has high as SARS or MERS. Adults still need to travel for work all the time. Unless your child has a respiratory fragility or an underlying medical condition, he will likely pull through anyway, even if he gets sick. But... why take that chance?

Now, if this concert counts towards a grade, I advise you to contact the organizers to see how amenable they are to changing their plans.

If your child goes, make sure he understands that he must wash his hands frequently, particularly before eating, and NOT TOUCH HIS FACE.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

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.