Now I'm panicking!!!Originally Posted by MissJen
Now I'm panicking!!!
Can somebody please explain how the heat scanning testing before entering the Immigration Hall works?? Every single passenger trying to enter Jamaica goes through this process?? I'm all for it but how does this impact incoming traffic in the terminals?? Would a traveler arriving in JA since this implementation be kind enough to share the experience upon arrival? Thanks
Center for Disease Control estimates that so far, 14,000 people have died and 250,000 people have been hospitalized during the 2019-2020 flu season, according to preliminary estimates from the CDC as of 2/14/2020. These figures are just for the USA and are NOT coronavirus related.
Get a grip, wash your hands, cover your mouth if you cough, etc. etc...
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm#ILIActivityMap
Last edited by Captain Oil; 03-05-2020 at 11:28 AM.
We don't know when that testing will start. Island time might mean weeks from now.
And if you have traveled to any of those countries follow the self quarantine! Heard 1 story that a person was sick after trip to Italy went to dr. Dr. said to self quarantine while they await the test results. So what did the person do? Go to a work conference in another state and spread it! Take it seriously and don't spread it people. I know it might seem awful to be trapped in the house for 14 days but it could save a life...maybe even your own. Just my 2cents that no one asked for. Stay healthy everyone
Last month, the CDC reported that 39,773 people in the United States died from gunshot wounds in 2017, the most single-year gun deaths in half a century. The increase was driven by suicides. GVA recorded 28,159 firearm injuries in 2018, a 10 percent decrease over 2017.
^^ Guns have about as much to do with the coronavirus as flu does.
Since we're getting off topic, how about the 450,000 deaths related to tobacco every year in the States?
We are in very mobile times here folks, these bugs are going to find a way in. All the control measures in the world will just slow down the spread and at least will help to not overcrowd our hospital systems - several here in the Chicago area have been on bypass lately (no room at the inn) just from the seasonal flu. We'll all get immune to this one and then wait around for the next one - sad, but the 'new' normal.
Control your health as best you can, get your vaccinations and for sure get your vacations!
Thank you MissJen.
I 100% agree with you, not that I'm an expert in health science. People are freaking out about something that they highly likely won't catch, if in the almost zero percent chance they do get it, they will have zero or minimal symptoms. The media is doing their best to cause some hysteria.
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I prefer to wait until scientists find out more about the disease before I would classify media coverage as hysteria. As often happens, too many people are willing to speculate because there is no consequence for being wrong or right in the end. I have seen virus' come and go in Jamaica and all have been accompanied by hysteria at some level due to not understanding the difference between facts and suss. What is known about the coronavirus is based on a scarce volume of information and will continue to be updated as millions more are tested and when the ones who test positive are investigated to uncover even more who have or have had it.
I personally that that since a vaccine is maybe 18 months or more away, speculation on the spread of this disease is inexact and will probably exceed most current expectations anyways.
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I agree whole heartedly with MissJen. The flu is everywhere and we have always traveled anyway. Now there is a particularly nasty strain, and the media is doing what they do. Trying to make it a big story so they can keep your attention. That's their job, to get people to read, watch, click on their stories. I am flying to California tomorrow. We will do what we always do on airplanes, keep my fingers away from my face, and mouth, wash my hands, and try to use common sense ( that last part is a big challenge for me). I won't stop traveling, and I wont worry, worry never helped anything.
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