I am not panicking but I am concerned, moreso because China doesn't have a reputation for giving accurate information.
I wouldn't be afriad of air travel right now but I would be extremely cautious. It's spreading before symptoms show up and that is worrisome because people can be infected without realizing they are around someone sick.
And there are all the people who can't afford to go to the doctor or take time off from their jobs or people who don't feel they can. At work my supervisor had the flu and it was right before inventory and she was pressured to come in and finish some prep work. She was still contagious and 3 co workers she had contat with for sick. We have no way of knowing if customers got sick.
And then when I had chicken pox in my 20s. I have no idea how I contracted it and I didn't realize I was sick and went around scratching this weird bug bite and then touching things.
I'm just thinking of the one person who has it and is contagious and doesn't know and goes through the airport and then takes an Uber home and then maybe orders food and then maybe goes to work, out for lunch or drinks after work....then you can have someone infected who has no way od knowing they were effected.
I am home sick today. I am so glad I have that luxury, which I didn't in the service industry. But I can at least keep up with emails and meetings without infecting my immunocompromised coworkers, while in the service industry I was either there or not. But in both retail and theatre, I worked through some terrible stuff and couldn't go to the doctor because of money. Just a good argument for both universal healthcare and workers rights
After I face-planted onto a metal rail, I said to myself, "Oof, that's going to leave a mark". It was only after I touched my face and saw the blood on my hands that I realized I had to go get stitches.
Just saw this. When I had neck surgery some years ago, I planned to explain the scar by saying I'd been in a knife fight. Turned out the surgeon made the incision in one of the natural folds in my throat, and you can't really see the scar. So I turn that excuse over to you, should you have a use for it.
I met Zen for coffee! Be jealous! One more Buffistas met face 2 face! Woohoo!
Also? 3 HOURS TO BALTIMORE!!!!!
Woo! Go msbelle! Go Zen! Go coffee!
Hooray!
I walked into work this morning, didn't talk to any one, and no one has noticed me yet. I'm not looking forward to having to tell the same story umpteen times, and I'm feeling crappy enough about myself even before I get subjected to "good natured" ribbing from my coworkers.
We had a suspected case of the coronavirus virus in the town where I work. Mind you, just suspected. And people bought out all the medical masks in town. They would've been better served to just go get a flu shot. Turned out it was not the coronavirus after all. The PTB haven't said what it was, but I suspect cedar fever myself.
Sophia - I use a netipot when I get a bad cold/sinus infection. I find it really does help clear things out. A little gross but, speaking from experience, way better than sinus surgery.
I'm sorry, Scola. Nobody-ask~ma
Go msbelle! Awesome that you got to see Zen. Baltimore! So excited for you.
Be~left~alone~ma for Tom.
Living in an area with lots of tourists and world travelers I have minor concern, but not enough to make me change my lifestyle. Traveling to China would give me pause.
