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[sandman66]

I am new to this board so the last thing I want to do is offend anybody. I have been a nurse for 30 years. I also just booked my next trip to Negril. Only my opinion, but for now (things could change) it is not an apocalypse. Frequent good ol’ hand washing is key. Fly? Sanitizer wipes. Should do that anyway. Rush to a crowded store to stock up on water, sanitizing wipes, canned goods, etc. ? No. Far from that and so is Jamaica. Most that have succumbed to this virus are the same unfortunate peeps that are already immunocompromised or have chronic health issues already. No need to panic. Life is short.

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.

[Accompong]

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.

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.

[Markis]

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.

[Accompong]

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.

The big difference? There is a flu shot available. Imagine if a strain of flu develops and spreads that there is no known vaccination to slow it down or stop it. Right now, that is what we have with the coronavirus.

Taking precautions will obviously help but it is pretty easy to spot a person sick with the flu in the communicable stages. Easier to avoid that than a person who looks like everyone else and still in the incubation process.

I am buying a ticket to go back to Jamaica this year and this won't change my plans either.

[rtitle]

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.

Yes that is true. In 18 months things will have ... stabilized.

This is only an issue for people planning travel in the next few months.

[Accompong]

Yes that is true. In 18 months things will have ... stabilized.

Is this an informed medical opinion or a gut response? I don't see any evidence that might be true. More testing will undoubtedly uncover more cases and, in some countries, they are either unable or unwilling to go to the extreme measures necessary to stop the spread.

Thinking that warm weather will stop the virus and similar attempts to tamp down fear are like whistling past a graveyard.

In my opinion...

[rtitle]

Is this an informed medical opinion or a gut response? I don't see any evidence that might be true. More testing will undoubtedly uncover more cases and, in some countries, they are either unable or unwilling to go to the extreme measures necessary to stop the spread.

Thinking that warm weather will stop the virus and similar attempts to tamp down fear are like whistling past a graveyard.

In my opinion...

See my preceding post.