Would it hurt to cease non urgent travel for 30-60 days to save people from COVID-19 virus?

no it wouldnt hurt

my company have issued a "work from home" protocol this morning and have told staff to cancel all face to face client meetings

Im a remote worker anyway so doesnt effect me the slightest

but my wife who is a nurse in the local ER dept is shitting herself

ive already told her the moment they get a case at her hospital then shes no longer going in

I think it's basically a good idea, except it would shut down the economy. Truck drivers have to deliver freight, factories have to stay open, etc. The economy is also largely driven by the service industries. Of course if it gets as bad as China everything would shut down anyway so it's a hard call to make.

But, but, but! Self-involved people have very important vacations to take!

We aren’t allowed to go to South Korea.
That’s the only recent change.

You mean cancel spring break, that aint going to happen.

to late
maybe in dec
why aren't they showing the recovered
look what happened in china
same thing gona happen in us and canada
keep and eye on those numbers
gona start climbing now

Last Edited by Butthead on 03/03/2020 07:14 AM

all the world leaders should get together and do exactly that. No travel for 2 months, stay at home. etc. etc. it would save millions of lives. But to make such strong decisive action would require true leadership.

Yes, it will. How will the elite withdraw their money from the stock exchange if they do not have considerable time for this?

Nurses havent got the proper protection nor training to deal with this. Plus they have been kept in the dark and fed bullshit.

It doesn't matter at this point. The virus has spread far and wide by now. All there is to do is wait for the outbreaks in major western cities; Paris, London, New York, Boston etc.

Once that happens it's over. People will panic and the economy will collapse.

It does not matter whether or not "the flu kills more people" or whatever. Panic becomes the true virus and it will spread like a wildfire!

I hope that it doesn't, but hope is not a good plan.

It’s a great idea , I hope you escaped USA already.

Yaaaaa.......

So this might have been helpful 2+ months ago when the US GOVERNMENT ORIGINALLY FOUND OUT about the virus. That window has long since closed. And they can talk all they want about “contract tracing” but good luck with that since it’s now fucking EVERYWHERE!

Last Edited by ProfessorWhistleTitz on 03/03/2020 07:20 AM

it's always a good thing to stay away from people
every chance you get.

It will be too late at that point .

No. Other than travel related businesses. Much business related travel can be stopped. There is so much technology today that can be used instead.

Schools? So many e-learning programs are out there. Our schools have on line assignments for school days which reduce the amount of make up days. Half my daughter's college classes are mostly web based this semester. It can be done. Only thing is that parents need to make sure the kids actually do it.

Years ago when the price of gas skyrocketed I planned my errands. What do I need and where can I go to get most of it at one time instead of going to several places? Reduce exposure. Granted going out in public is going out in public and you can get infected in one place just as easily as going into four places, but it might help.

Other than the people who absolutely have to take their vacations and fancy trips, there is a lot of travel that can be reduced or done away with. Even temporarily. It won't hurt anyone and possibly keep many from getting sick, not only with Corona, but colds and flu.

Seems very reasonable to me, but our leaders want to just keep telling us "it's just the flu" and not panic.

It depends upon how one frames the question. If it's, "Would it hurt to trade just a little of my liberty for just a little perceived security?" Maybe then we would be "just a little" undeserving of either.

It makes a great deal more sense for people to do this voluntarily, as many posters here seem to suggest many are doing. If it proves helpful, great. You are at liberty to take steps to avoid contacting "hot spot" areas as they develop, and YOUR reaction time should be a lot faster than the reaction time of any bureaucracy.

Should have done 2 months ago.
The asymptomatic carriers (anyone reading this can be that by now) will incessantly cross infect each other until a variant makes them sick, too.

The fact that travel is still taking place and that the CDC has only tested a few hundred people clearly shows that their priority is not the health of the people. Other countries have tested thousands and display those numbers for all to see. We are not being kept informed. To me, this is looking more and more like their chosen population reduction weapon - especially if it damages the fertility of survivors.

God forbid humans have to settle down and stay at home and live/shop locally for a few weeks.

I thank you for making this thread, I was considering doing the same, but mine would be filled with vitriol towards the human race.

So, to make it quick and sweet, I am all for free will and rights and freedoms, but I would dare to claim that 80-90% of human travel is unnecessary under normal circumstances.

Going to DisneyWorld, Wrestlemania, Aunt Edna's house, the mall 40 minutes away, etc... really should be privileges not rights.

The entire way society is could desperately use a revision.
Consider this, we might face a much more widespread sickness and death rate, just because common people feel it's necessary to run all around the world as they please.

I'm not saying we should have a totalitarian New World Order, but it's really time humans start having a littler bit more maturity, accountability and common sense.

The borders should have been closed weeks ago. ALL non essential travel should be temporarily banned.

But no, we need to have college idiots go to the beach and get drunk. I mean, I could point out that people really shouldn't have the rights to do much of anything... because most of the shit they do is stupid, toxic, harmful to themselves, each other, the environment and now the entire world.

Cry me a fucking river... if they were to say you can't fly anywhere until this is contained. WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU? AND WHY IS IT SO IMPORTANT THAT YOUR FUCKING NARCISSISTIC ASS HAS TO COME AND GO AS YOU PLEASE?

Is it really worth potentially spreading disease and killing others for?

This could go to a bad place. I could claim, that YOU... YES YOU and your life choices are putting me in danger.
That makes YOU a threat. Consider what actions come next.

The fact that your ignorant leadership is motivated by greed and fear of losing control and the masses are all selfish and careless with their actions... I sincerely look forward to a grand culling. It's really overdue and I assure you, most people really do have it coming.

OP (and others) echo my own sentiments for the past few weeks. Selfish bastards who have to have their little amusements in life are costing people their lives.

It's not COVID-19 Virus, it is SARS-CoV-2 virus.

In principle what you write is logical, however, in practice...?

What "cure" do you think they will offer us?

Do you believe this coronavirus is natural?

Nope, shouldn't hurt at all. Prior to all of this, I had been wanting to upgrade our server at work so we could have a reliable server to facilitate that, just about done with upgrading. I should be able to do a dry run of working from home here tomorrow. Originally the only reason why I want to do this was so that my wife could spend more time outside camping during the summer. Even if we have to take our work with us, it's still better than sitting in an office looking at 4 walls.

Last Edited by Pinochet'sChopperPilot on 03/03/2020 08:17 AM

When I bring a new animal to our farm, even when I know it's a good, healthy animal from a farm I have experience with, we still quarantine the animal for a month until we are certain it's completely healthy.

Human beings are for the most part completely ignorant of the natural world and how it works.

All they are doing is insuring that this spreads- if it is in fact real at all.

But what do I know, I'm just a dirt person in flyover country.

It would hurt the economy and spread a bit of sheeple panic which is why they aren't doing it, that said they SHOULD be doing it, economy be damned, people's lives are on the line here.

Last Edited by Tatsuya on 03/03/2020 08:18 AM

it will hurt the economy more in the long run if the DONT stop flights now. SPRING BREAK is in the next week! It will be like Wuhan when they travelled for chinese new year. STOP un-necessary travel NOW

it will hurt the economy more in the long run if the DONT stop flights now. SPRING BREAK is in the next week! It will be like Wuhan when they travelled for chinese new year. STOP un-necessary travel NOW

Yes it would hurt. Travel and vacation is a huge sector of our economy. It would cause tremendous economic disruption to stop non essential travel for that long. So many people live paycheck to paycheck. They aren’t going to get paid for not working. If the government prints money to cover salary then this will quickly cause inflation which will have further detrimental effects on the economy.

Of course it will, but you've got politicians looking at getting reelected, wall street seeing money to line their pockets etc, they don't think about the long term consequences, nor do most of them care.