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Feb 2020
12:27pm, 12 Feb 2020
32,417 posts
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DocM
i recommend staying away from Hong Kong. there is no loo roll.my brother is now in a shit situation
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Feb 2020
1:12pm, 12 Feb 2020
2,614 posts
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TomahawkMike
I have been asked to supply my main client with my companies 'detailed pandemic response plan' by 14th Feb. Busy typing...
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Feb 2020
1:17pm, 12 Feb 2020
9,694 posts
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geordiegirl
My friend said the same. I don’t think going will be that great but currently to change is going to cost us.
And it’s hardly going to be a great time let alone increased risk of carrying even if we don’t get infected.
For everyone in it we can only hope they get imports of sorted from elsewhere.
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Feb 2020
11:33am, 13 Feb 2020
9,695 posts
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geordiegirl
Had a message from my friend overnight. She said that there are restrictions accessing group areas i.e. gyms (wont need that) and some big tourist attractions.
They are wearing masks on public transport and if in crowds, but they walk a lot in the hills and don't wear them then. There is still loads of options for us to do even if it wasn't what they had planned.
So I feel a lot happier now, docs are arranging a chest x-ray for me and i'm back to see the doc tomorrow so I will ask the Q on whether I need anything just incase I trigger any checks at airports.
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Feb 2020
11:50am, 13 Feb 2020
1,911 posts
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Tia
My daughter has planned a 2 week trip to Japan in April, flight change in Beijing. I’m super stressed about how things may escalate and want her to postpone her trip but she’s reluctant
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Feb 2020
12:15pm, 13 Feb 2020
48,503 posts
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Dr PhFleecyD
I’m planning to go to Japan in June and hoping flight prices plummet!
Someone sensible I know said she wanted to go to London during half term but now she wouldn’t risk it because of the virus. Wtf? I asked her whether she realised that literally millions of people travel on the tube and buses every day in London and that it was more likely she’d be hit by a taxi than catch the virus and die, but clearly there’s not much rational thinking...
Anyway, I’m off to London now. Must remember not to breathe.
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Feb 2020
1:22pm, 13 Feb 2020
6,350 posts
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sallykate
One of my friends is HK Chinese but lives here - she's concerned about her family back in HK, including an elderly father.
Me, I've been nursing a poorly husband who developed a persistent cough and fever last week after returning from working in Brighton, and I came down with the same thing at the weekend. Can't be Covid-19 though, surely...
And I've just learnt that the first confirmed London case took an Uber to my local hospital so I'm just waiting for a bit of panic to hit the good people of Lewisham.
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Feb 2020
1:32pm, 13 Feb 2020
9,696 posts
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geordiegirl
I do believe if you follow basic hygiene the majority of things wont be passed on, unless you are in very close and persistent proximity.
I think wherever we are in the world it will spread people have been flown out of China well before they admitted to the virus being there and the news hit - it wont take long to spread it. I used to often come back from a work trip with a cold from being on flights.
I've been completely knocked off my feet with a horrid bug/chest infection/virus/you name it - they symptoms match coronavirus to a T but then what flu/cold/bug doesn't?
There is a risk with it, at the moment it cant be treat but in the huge majority of fatalities there has been underlying issues which has caused it to be fatal.
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Feb 2020
1:36pm, 13 Feb 2020
32,429 posts
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DocM
Good advice greordie girl
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Feb 2020
1:59pm, 13 Feb 2020
578 posts
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Sam Jelfs
The meeting I am supposed to be going to in April is now looking like it might not happen, there is going to be a discussion with all the other companies involved tomorrow.
Given that some of the bigger industry events (Mobile World Congress as the biggest) has been cancelled, it looks like this might go the same way. Shame really, I was looking forward to a works jolly to the mountains of austria...
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