Is The Coronavirus Impacting Your Travel Decisions?

[pheoxs]

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Both Iran and Italy shows that it only takes 1. And 30 days incubation mean all airports' screening are pointless.

And? Firstly the actual incubation time is not 30 days... there is one report of someone showing symptoms 27 days later and a couple claiming 20+ days but those are rare reports and not the norm. There will always be weird outliers that could be caused by something else not being reported properly. For all they know they could've been infected a week or two after the original encounter.

Also statistically the odds of being near someone with the Virus is still basically zero unless there is a larger outbreak. Like, someone would have to be infected, and in the airport at a similar time, and in a similar area, and within a few feet of me, just to have a CHANCE at passing the infection. It's not magic, one person doesn't walk into a crowd and immediately everyone else is contagious. I'm flying direct from YYC to LAX ... it's not like I'm camping out in a airport for 12 hours and multiple layovers.

I never said I'm not concerned or paying attention to the problem, but right now there is still very little risk for US/Mexico travel unless things change. Just exercise proper hygiene etiquette, wash your hands frequently, don't touch commonly touched public surfaces, don't crowd next to people, etc.

If things change then yeah I'll adjust my plans but for the time being things are fine here.

[Swank]

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Yup, every time you embark and disembark the ship they check your passport.

Wasn't the case for me, I just got back from a 12 day Caribbean cruise a few days ago. They only checked passports for the initial embarkation to board the ship, never when boarding from other ports and we got off at every one along the way.
We almost forgot all about Corona virus while on the cruise, just stuck to a good hand washing practice and used the hand sanitizer stations that are set up everywhere.

[Mitsu3000gt]

This is still very overblown IMO. It's just the flavor of the week for the media. People keep ignoring the narrow demographic that is at a legitimate risk, as well as the specific conditions surrounding the majority of people who have actually died from it. If you're an otherwise healthy person, even if you did get it you probably wouldn't even know it was the coronavirus vs a regular cold/flu. Wash your hands and don't touch your face, which is standard basic hygiene practice regardless. I'm traveling in April and it's not even a consideration.

[killramos]

Tell that to the S&P500

[sabad66]

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This is still very overblown IMO. It's just the flavor of the week for the media. People keep ignoring the narrow demographic that is at a legitimate risk, as well as the specific conditions surrounding the majority of people who have actually died from it. If you're an otherwise healthy person, even if you did get it you probably wouldn't even know it was the coronavirus vs a regular cold/flu. Wash your hands and don't touch your face, which is standard basic hygiene practice regardless. I'm traveling in April and it's not even a consideration.

For me it's not even necessarily about dying it from it. It's the inconvenience of being quarantined. Not a cruise guy (yet) but i sure as hell would never go on one now and certainly would advise anyone i know against going on one now. Also there was a hotel in spain that all 1000 tourists were locked down just yesterday. 14 day quarantine would really fuck up a lot of people especially if you have families and other responsibilities to deal with.

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Tell that to the S&P500

no, that was my fault for buying some SPY in my RRSP last week. sorry.

[ExtraSlow]

Not to mention your odds of contracting the virus go waaay up in these quarantined spaces.

[XylathaneGTR]

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Eh you should be more concerned about getting measles again. Its R0 is around 18.

Relatively up to date on my vaccinations, don't spend much time with kids

[Mitsu3000gt]

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For me it's not even necessarily about dying it from it. It's the inconvenience of being quarantined. Not a cruise guy (yet) but i sure as hell would never go on one now and certainly would advise anyone i know against going on one now. Also there was a hotel in spain that all 1000 tourists were locked down just yesterday. 14 day quarantine would really fuck up a lot of people especially if you have families and other responsibilities to deal with.

Fair point - everyone else over reacting to it might cause huge inconveniences, but probably only if you are traveling to the higher risk areas.

[blownz]

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Booking travel for work, taking a look at seats to Frankfurt this Saturday, it's empty as fuck. Free skycouch haha.

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Great time to travel if you're cheap, it's like 1/2 price right now.

That is awesome! I have to head to Paris next week and it is almost $10K for a pod with AC! I was hoping for a discount. And KLM is sold out so that is my only option. Maybe I should look at flying through Germany...

[Xtrema]

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That is awesome! I have to head to Paris next week and it is almost $10K for a pod with AC! I was hoping for a discount. And KLM is sold out so that is my only option. Maybe I should look at flying through Germany...

Won't everyone who can afford it rushing for pods now so you are in a less dense environment?

[blownz]

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Won't everyone who can afford it rushing for pods now so you are in a less dense environment?

That was actually my thinking, hoping to justify it as a work expense over economy premium.

Turns out if I went through Frankfurt it is even more expensive for the dates I need and then I still need to get to Paris. lol Would have been a nice detour if I could have done it for similar price but not going to happen.

[ExtraSlow]

Fly through Beijing maybe?

[The_Rural_Juror]

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Fly through Beijing maybe?

Or as the more refined people like to call it. Peking.

[rage2]

Business and premium economy is still relatively full. Wouldn’t be surprised if they’re all eupgrades from cheap economy tickets haha.

[Buster]

I'm flying to Arizona next week. I might die.

[KrisYYC]

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My son is supposed to be going to Taiwan April 1st, his mom is thinking of cancelling that trip. right now her concerns are mostly not being able to leave the country and get back into Canada if something happens, but this country wouldn't shut down air traffic to save its life anyway so I don't think she has much concern.

I'm not worried about him going, I don't know if I should be. Her family there wouldn't let them come if there were issues in Taiwan.

It's the airlines themselves suspending flights that you should worry about. Canada still has no restrictions on flights to China, however Air Canada has stopped all flights to mainland China at least until April 10th. Obviously the situation in Taiwan is nowhere near that of China, but should it escalate rapidly...

I was supposed to go to Singapore and Malaysia with my parents in late March. But my parents are in their 70's so I'm not risking it. We were thinking of going to Italy (lol) or something instead. But now we might just go to the US or something.

Thanks again China

[89coupe]

Considering cancelling our trip to Europe if things continue to escalate.

[Buster]

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Considering cancelling our trip to Europe if things continue to escalate.

That's a lot of threads wasted.

[Super_Geo]

I just got to London a few days ago, literally had 0 worries about this until it spread to Italy in the past couple of days, but then again maybe Brexit is a blessing in disguise?

[The_Rural_Juror]

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That's a lot of threads wasted.

A lot of fans disappointed.