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Post by stellarfeller on Feb 19, 2020 13:00:48 GMT -5
We have an AirBNB booked on Nova Scotia’s north shore this summer, right near Cape Split and the Bay of Fundy - I’m so excited to go back there!
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Post by shaena on Feb 20, 2020 21:52:05 GMT -5
I am going to the giant petri dish called Disney World next week! And I ALWAYS catch a cold when I go there, no matter the mode of transport to get there or how much hand sanitizer and hand washing I do!
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Post by Peanut on Feb 21, 2020 9:15:29 GMT -5
I am going to the giant petri dish called Disney World next week! And I ALWAYS catch a cold when I go there, no matter the mode of transport to get there or how much hand sanitizer and hand washing I do! Have fun! My older daughter lives and works in Orlando, and I jokingly refer to DW as "The Happiest Petri Dish on Earth"!
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Post by junebug on Feb 21, 2020 9:40:08 GMT -5
We just got back from Disney (where I caught a cold) and I have a ton of work travel planned for March (east coast and europe). At this point, not planning on making any changes to the travel plans. But I was contemplating a work trip to Singapore and decided to postpone that one.
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Post by Wise Old Goat on Feb 21, 2020 10:07:47 GMT -5
My niece lives in Australia and has a getaway to some tiny little country in SE Asia planned and she got an email from her airline offering to cancel/change her flight at no cost if she no longer wanted to travel to Asia lol
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Post by nansel on Feb 21, 2020 10:20:19 GMT -5
I feel bad for my assistant manager. In April she and her fiancé were going to go on a big “pre-wedding honeymoon” ( ) trip around Asia visiting family and then going to Japan. She is Chinese and grew up in Malaysia, her fiancé is from Hong Kong. They’ve had to shorten the trip to just their parents’ places.
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Post by mare on Feb 22, 2020 21:36:32 GMT -5
Is anyone becoming more concerned? It's spreading to more countries now and the language from the WHO is more gloomy.
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Post by coachgrrl on Feb 23, 2020 12:07:52 GMT -5
Basically we’re going to get it. Hoping the warmer weather helps diffuse it
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Post by GiftOfFlavor on Feb 23, 2020 18:18:59 GMT -5
I’m supposed to fly to Venice in June. Have no plans to change it 🤷♀️
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Post by Inky on Feb 23, 2020 20:10:37 GMT -5
I'm worrying a bit about when it gets to Ontario. DH is on Enbrel and I think he'd run into difficulties if he caught something like that. But luckily he's pretty germ conscious. He always wipes down the shopping cart, proper hand washing, sanitizer etc.
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Post by mimi on Feb 23, 2020 21:03:38 GMT -5
I never used to worry about it but my lymphoma seems to have done a number on my immune system. (I’m just getting over a nasty cold/virus curtesy of my granddaughter who won’t cover her mouth when she coughs.). If it hits our school, one of the kids will probably bring it home. Oh well. I’m not about to live the rest of my life in fear. If it happens, it happens.
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Post by emmjay on Feb 24, 2020 6:56:53 GMT -5
I am going to spend an entire class period today going over the amount of disinformation and misinformation being spread about this virus. So many crazy memes and conspiracy theories are out there.
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Post by Tpatt100 on Feb 24, 2020 9:55:13 GMT -5
I am concerned not worried but I have the luxury of not living somewhere where there is a major outbreak either.
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Post by Wise Old Goat on Feb 24, 2020 10:17:14 GMT -5
I live in Chinatown North and the hysteria here has been OTT. When the story first broke my mall was literally sold out of face masks and hand sanitizers- even the expensive ones at Bath and Bodyworks 😂. Because a lot of families travel to China over the Christmas break people started a petition to ask those families to self-quarantine their children. Fortunately the school board shut that down. One restaurant that has Wuhan in its name has face a lot of racism online.
I was at the mall with a friend a few weeks ago when there were literally 3 cases in the entire country and she visibly flinched whenever someone sneezed 😂.
I ride public transit and I've probably gotten better about not touching things in public unnecessarily and washing my hands more but I'm not overly concerned. It's coming and it's coming here based on the demographics of my community but I'm not going to become a fearful shut in
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Post by Andee on Feb 24, 2020 12:33:30 GMT -5
One of my best friends is on a Cruise to Mexico with her husband. She is a nurse and knows what could happen. I told her she was crazy for going
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Post by GiftOfFlavor on Feb 24, 2020 21:28:59 GMT -5
My supply company is limiting how many masks I can buy per month. Because actual healthcare providers who are required to work with them have to put up with random ass folks in Nebraska buying all the masks 🙄🙄🙄🙄
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Post by Peanut on Feb 25, 2020 12:34:38 GMT -5
My supply company is limiting how many masks I can buy per month. Because actual healthcare providers who are required to work with them have to put up with random ass folks in Nebraska buying all the masks 🙄🙄🙄🙄 This is an angle I hadn't considered. The scarcity of masks!
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Post by coachgrrl on Feb 25, 2020 12:59:08 GMT -5
Yeah we have training about various masks when to use, what mask.
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Post by Sprockey on Feb 25, 2020 15:20:57 GMT -5
So should we be freaking out or no?
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Post by Tpatt100 on Feb 25, 2020 15:25:48 GMT -5
So should we be freaking out or no? The stock market is, so many American companies rely on stuff from China.
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