It depends on your age, general health and whether you are equipped for possibly staying in Morocco for an extended time.
SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)
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So my parent's went on a 5 week cruise a fortnight ago against everybody else's better judgement and on Thursday a passenger was removed with a chest infection. Test results came back a few hours ago, positive, so they're basically quarantined in Recife until the Brazilian authorities decide what to do. They've been confined to cabins since Thursday with zero crew contact permitted.
The cruise line's website has no mention of this - they did announce on Friday that all current and future cruises would be suspended for a period of 30 days - in line with other cruise companies. Boat is Silver Shadow (not one of the two Silversea ships reported on this morning by various outlets).
The cruise line's website has no mention of this - they did announce on Friday that all current and future cruises would be suspended for a period of 30 days - in line with other cruise companies. Boat is Silver Shadow (not one of the two Silversea ships reported on this morning by various outlets).
That’s it isn’t it, I’d be fine and if I got stuck in Morocco for a few more weeks would probably be okay financially.
The borders are currently open to the UK, however they just closed to a number of European countries, so there’s a good chance if I go I am stuck there.
Currently on hold examining if I can get a refund.
Just bare in mind that even fit and healthy people can need hospitalisation from this albeit at a lower rate. I'm not sure I'd want to end up in that state out there.
Lovely place though Morocco so enjoy if you do go!
Right @Amar__ last night, the Danish governments OWN experts on this stated clearly that shutting down the country was NOT advised by them and was purely political. That good enough for you?
And Donald Trump actually banned flights from Europe, but not the UK and Ireland, a decision so fecking stupid and see-through that he was forced to add the UK and Ireland to it JUST the following day. The scenes tweeted from O’Hare airport tell of plenty more political stupid decision making in the US.
But yeah, not political at all. How the feck can you even question that statement?
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How will elderly people get food if they're staying at home, especially as many don't use the internet?
Thanks mate! I will see what the flight people say to me and take their advice.
See the part of my post you quoted where I posted:
"highest risk, those with medical conditions should be allowed to be off work on full pay and we should pander to their every need. "
Yeah that part. We can pander whilst the economy is working and allows for it. What's the other option? Keep allowing the elderly out and putting themselves at massive risk?
Not on these interviews he certainly doesn't. He spends nearly all the air time not talking about it and mentions that closures are in the tool kit.
He could have done better for sure but these medias are looking for sensational headlines. The actual information has been in the public arena all the time.
I guess some people hear what they want to hear.
I heard him talk about worst case scenarios, herd immunity, delay phase, closing schools, events etc. Most importantly I heard him talk about how important timing was with all of this and that it is all based on hard scientific evidence.
Smores just heard "herd-immunity" though.
Going to have to rely on their family and/or neighbours. The entire care sector in this country will collapse within a few weeks of this starting with most of the staff needing to stay home to look after young kids when the schools close. I work in the sector and honestly this is going to be a total shit show.
Thanks for the clarification. I wasn't sure if by lowering the body's temperature it could somehow prolong the duration of the virus or cause other complications. I'm not a great sufferer so it's good to know I can use it!
We're in a similar predicament with a month long trip coming up at the end of April.
I'm pretty certain as things stand we can't get any refund, as there are no travel restrictions to the destinations.
To be fair, after the live interview, Sky repeatedly ran the herd 60% part for the rest of the day, as the only clip.
Who paid for all this quarantines?
My brother in law has just got back from Snowboarding in Bulgaria, he's ok at the moment but two of his friends have got a fever and a cough.
The public will eventually.
Exactly this, I don’t want to lose lots of money.
Yes. But as in you're forced for staying onboard of the cruise for 2 more weeks?
If i arrive in singapore as a tourist and got tested positive. Would i need to pay for the hospital bills or quarantine cost of foods etc.?
Infections are going to sky rocket in Ireland over the next two weeks. Then what happened in Italy will happen in Ireland. Might even have to shut the border with NI if that is possible.
Doesnt help when loads of people are seeing singing and dancing in pubs last night. They are too dumb to realize what is coming.
Doesnt help when loads of people are seeing singing and dancing in pubs last night. They are too dumb to realize what is coming.
TL/CV (too long, caught virus)
Similar situation to you mate, just further away. Off to Japan for 3 weeks 1st April for our honeymoon travelling. If it was next week we’d be fine, so long means it can all change drastically with borders etc
I'd ask your insurer that. Travel is probably a bad idea right now.
My partner is a carer and she’s also heavily asthmatic, chest infections hit her really hard. Safe to say she’s pretty worried at the moment
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No exactly, I know life / death is more important, of course it is. But we've been planning this so long, it's cost a fortune (to us at least), we timed it to coincide with my wife changing jobs too, as she'd never normally get this amount of time off.
From what I've looked into so far though, no one we've booked with is willing to give a refund as there are no restrictions in place.
This is where “feck the Tories” is appropriate!
this is 2020, we should all greet each other the way they do in Wakanda.
here in Nova Scotia, there are zero cases, the only province in Canada without one. In a place called cape breton, they have designated an hour in the mornings that seniors can go to the grocery store without anyone else present and right after the store has been completely wiped down and sanitized.
First official case in Uzbekistan. A local lady who arrived from France was tested positive. All passengers were allowed to go home and observe self isolation. Knowing our folk, they did sweet feck all. From tomorrow on all kindergartens, schools and unis are closed. All public events cancelled. Borders are to be closed as well. Taking into account the state of local healthcare system, I can only say, Lord please save us all. We as human race have managed to feck this planet up in 50 years. I guess it is payback time.
Yep and my travel insurance won’t cover until the government says I can’t travel.
I don’t think the WHO and our experts are right or wrong, I think they start from differing assumptions and the strategies follow from that. It seems like the UK approach is designed to accommodate a re emergence of the virus, where the WHOs perhaps expects all the stuff China etc did, would be done again... which might be as seemingly unrealistic in its way as some people are accusing the UK of being. We will see.
Thanks for that mental image that definitely won't haunt me forever.
No exactly, will be the same for most I would think.
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That seems like a very sensible, practical and manageable idea.
One sneeze and they are all in trouble.
fecking hell.
Indeed, but the media in general need to be reporting more responsibly I feel. The Guardian's coverage is comprehensive, but they keep interspersing it with political snipes. It's not necessary at the moment.