Is Coronavirus affecting your travel plans?

[mikehn]

My SO has a conference in Orlando in a couple weeks. Im tagging along via points on Southwest. I just checked this morning and the cost of my outbound flight increased by 1500 points. As long as the conference isnt cancelled, Im still on.

 

[Heather07438]

Looking at maps of where this disease is, I'd like to know what North Korea is doing, because they are surrounded by it, yet have no cases in their country. Question is, do they really not have any cases and if they don't, what have they done to keep it out of their country.

Not sharing data, that's what they're doing

 

[Mango7100]

I’m pretty sure dogs can already get a strain of Corona virus. They have a vaccine. Are they certain it’s this strain?

I am a vet. Dogs and cats have species specific coronaviruses—they are quite common. Some are GI and some are respiratory. In cats, a coronavirus can mutate and cause FIP which is usually fatal. There is a vaccine for dogs for coronavirus but it’s not very good and is not recommended. I think there used to be a vaccine for cats ages ago but it was terrible and is no longer made.

 

[osufeth24]

Looking at maps of where this disease is, I'd like to know what North Korea is doing, because they are surrounded by it, yet have no cases in their country. Question is, do they really not have any cases and if they don't, what have they done to keep it out of their country.

I mean, it is NK. Probably claiming they are immune to it, and everyone else is weak

 

[DisneyLover1217]

I assume they are withholding data, but not sure what that would accomplish for them, except not get help if things get out of control.

 

[Heather07438]

I assume they are withholding data, but not sure what that would accomplish for them, except not get help if things get out of control.

They are not comfortable exposing any weakness. And they sure don't want to open themselves further to scrutiny.

 

[Christine]

Interesting reading posts here about some companies already stopping travel, etc. I work for the federal government and we've had nothing of sort come down as far as travel restrictions. We are putting contingency plans in place for what to do if things get bad and a lot of workers are sick, but nothing in the way of trying to mitigate anything at all for employees. And people travel a lot here.

 

[Heather07438]

Now South Korea otoh... they may be sharing too much info. They are publicly tracking the infected and exposing many people's extra-marital affairs along the way I love South Korea but yeah, that may have gone a bit too much.

 

[miamimama]

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[miamimama]

My husbands company just cancelled a huge conference in DC bc of coronavirus -with thousands of hotel rooms booked for late March. Can’t imagine the ripple effect.

 

[Iowamomof4]

That huge healthcare conference in Orlando was just cancelled:

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/05/coronavirus-himss-health-conference-cancelled.html

 

[Searc]

Also, Thankful I don't have a cruise planned. I think cruises are going to be hit the hardest. Especially now that they have the Princess out at sea with 21 suspected ill and one death. They were helicoptering tests to them! What doctor is going to want to go on that ship and how will they treat all those people? I can't imagine being one of the 2500 people stuck on board. It is horrific to think about.

The death was an older male with underlying health issues from a previous cruise.

 

[DopeyDame]

Not sharing data, that's what they're doing

That's clearly true, but also they sort of "self quarentine" all the time.
There isn't free-flow of people into or out of North Korea. South Koreans aren't crossing the border (except for some very limited joint-factories near the border).
So I definitely don't believe anything coming out of there, but they are much more easily able to restrict movement both within their country and in and out of the country, which in this case may help with limiting the spread of the virus.
They did quarantine most of the high ranking party officials, presumably to make sure they don't catch it.

 

[DopeyDame]

Interesting reading posts here about some companies already stopping travel, etc. I work for the federal government and we've had nothing of sort come down as far as travel restrictions. We are putting contingency plans in place for what to do if things get bad and a lot of workers are sick, but nothing in the way of trying to mitigate anything at all for employees. And people travel a lot here.

That's agency specific. NASA has a bunch of travel restrictions in place (no business travel to the high-risk countries, and you can't come to work for 14 days if you've traveled to those countries for pleasure.) and are doing a few different types of contingency-of-operations exercises over the next week or two.

 

[NotUrsula]

Interesting reading posts here about some companies already stopping travel, etc. I work for the federal government and we've had nothing of sort come down as far as travel restrictions. We are putting contingency plans in place for what to do if things get bad and a lot of workers are sick, but nothing in the way of trying to mitigate anything at all for employees. And people travel a lot here.

I think that the majority of company/agency travel restrictions put in place are meant to keep people out of potential foreign quarantine situations. It's more a bottom-line precaution than anything else.

 

[wvjules]

I work at Andrews Air Force Base. Everyone is teleworking tomorrow to do a "stress" test for the network to see if it can handle all of the traffic.

 

[Diznygrl]

Something to think about.... Saw on the news the other night that due to the sanitary precautions people are taking for Coronavirus, the number of flu cases in the US are down 20-30%. So by my info and simple observations, with flu deaths at ~ 16,000 a year, statistically, there will be 3200 - 4800 less deaths in the US. With Coronavirus deaths at < 100 in US, this seems like a WIN/WIN virus as more people are living due to the Coronavirus. Perspective!

I suppose if anything good is coming out of this, it's that people are finally waking up and starting to WASH THEIR FREAKING HANDS. Unfortunately people seem to have very short memories so once this all blows over they'll go back to being the filthy beasts that they are, no lessons learned.

 

[wallawallakids]

Also, Thankful I don't have a cruise planned. I think cruises are going to be hit the hardest. Especially now that they have the Princess out at sea with 21 suspected ill and one death. They were helicoptering tests to them! What doctor is going to want to go on that ship and how will they treat all those people? I can't imagine being one of the 2500 people stuck on board. It is horrific to think about.

The death was an older male with underlying health issues from a previous cruise.

Yes, Thank you and sorry. I knew it was a previous cruise on the same ship. I didn’t write it clearly. My point was more that I think cruises will be hit hard after this and I am glad I am not on one! And I feel for the current 21 passengers they think have it on that ship....as well as those that are asymptomatic and are stuck at sea.

 

[Christine]

I think that the majority of company/agency travel restrictions put in place are meant to keep people out of potential foreign quarantine situations. It's more a bottom-line precaution than anything else.

At first I thought so too, but lately I'm reading about private companies stopping domestic travel and large meetings/conferences in general already. I guess I'm surprised at some of the domestic restrictions going on.

 

[Christine]

I work at Andrews Air Force Base. Everyone is teleworking tomorrow to do a "stress" test for the network to see if it can handle all of the traffic.

I can tell you that our network (and we have 3 servers we can access across the country) could not handle the stress of all of us teleworking. It barely works on a snow day.