Anyone canceling trips due to Corona virus?

[garyp4951]

I've got several trips planned, and some are at music festivals, so I'm trying to decide what to do. I see SBySW has cancelled, and afraid there will be more to do the same.
We just got our first case in Memphis today.

[ford_truck_guy]

So far we have the NBA... NHL.. BOTH suspending games.... NASCAR will race the next 2 weeks, BUT no fans will be allowed to attend...

I am sure there are more, but didn't look all that long..

It's a shame for the ticket holders, I know they are NOT CHEAP, except possibly NBA.. who even likes that sport ? :B

[winniman]

B.O. Plenty wrote:
We want to go but don't have enough room for all of our toilet paper. What to do?
B.O.

Just remove those pesky spare tires. Who needs them anyway.

[B_O__Plenty]

We want to go but don't have enough room for all of our toilet paper. What to do?
B.O.

[JIMNLIN]

Anyone canceling trips due to Corona virus?

Fair question.
I'm 78 and the wife is 77.
WE cancelled a trip to BYU to see the middle grand daughter and her hubby graduate late next month.
Their both into music and have been in BYU marching band...BYU Sympathy Orchestra ..other BYU bands.
The BYU Sym Orchestra was going on a 3 week tour of Italy...France...Czech Republic.....Switzerland....Austria. Italy has been cancelled and their group leader says probably the whole trip will be.

IMO most Americans see the need to make some changes in their social gatherings where large numbers of people will be in close contact... medical alertness.
Others...... ?? Lets hope they soon take COVID 19 serious sooner than later.

[SpeakEasy]

Someone today cancelled their reservations for Topsail Hill Preserve State Park in the panhandle of Florida. I jumped on it right away and got two more nights for our stay there next month.

-Speak

[dedmiston]

2oldman wrote:

dedmiston wrote:
I've deleted a lot of the trash talk about various media outlets and media in general. I've also let some of the media comments remain for now.

My post that you deleted about those suggested media outlets is not trash talk. {snip}

It was trash talk. That's why I deleted it. Similar posts of yours have been deleted by other moderators.

It's not the end of the world. Move along.

[2oldman]

Rocklinmike wrote:
Lotta Corona in Italy I guess.

You guess? I'd say so.. the entire country is in lockdown.

[Rocklinmike]

I didn't cancel but, the MotoGP race in Austin, Tx. in April has been pushed to November. Lotta Corona in Italy I guess.

[dturm]

This topic and the real information that can be shared are too important to get worried about individual posts. I've seen the deleted posts and concur with dedmiston. Some deleted posts refer to other posts that have been deleted and are not in themselves trash talk.

Since this is now categorized as a pandemic and legit authorities are estimating that 1/3 to 1/2 of our population could be exposed before this is over, we need a place to share ideas that are particularly important to us as RVers.

Still, don't panic but do take precautions. Every person we can prevent or delay from contracting COVID-19 helps all of us to deal with this situation.

Dr. Doug

[Lightning55]

We are not canceling any RV plans but I'm a little worried about a vacation to Hawaii we have planned in June.

[Shadow57]

Not cancelling actually just booked one today for the fall. I am however very concerned about the number of tests that have actually been given. No one seems to give or have an answer. One place I read only about 6,500 tests given with 900 positive sounds bad to me. Why we don't have more tests available and where they are coming from, I find interesting. We just came back from 2 weeks in the sticks so I am ordering from Sam's club and limiting my interaction with others until I see what happens. I must say it is all interesting reading.

[TechWriter]

Terryallan wrote:

Why do you think you are going to get it? there are over 334 million people in the US. What makes you so sure that you will be part of the .0001 percent that will get it????

.0001% of 339 million (current US population) = 339 people.

The current COVID-19 cases for the US is 808.

So it's more like .00024%, but, you're right, it's a small number.

Terryallan wrote:

And over 80% of the ones that do get it recover with out any medical treatment. Man don't panic. Stop watching CNN. live your life. You are in no more danger than you were in December

It's uncertain how high the COVID-19 cases will get. If COVID-19 burns out when the weather gets warmer (like other flus), then the infected may stay fairly low.

However, it COVID-19 doesn't stop growing in Spring, then all bets are off. If Harvard epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch is right, then 40 to 70% of the world adult population could get coronavirus. If you're keeping score, for the US that would be between 131 to 229 million cases. Hope you're right.

Finally, about that 80%. In one sense, it's great that most COVID-19 cases are mild. But in the early stages of infection, many people don't even know they're infected . . . and they unknowingly walk around spreading it. Very bad mojo.

[dedmiston]

I've deleted a lot of the trash talk about various media outlets and media in general. I've also let some of the media comments remain for now.

Let's please keep the conversation on topic and keep the arguments about the media out of it.

[TechWriter]

ScottG wrote:
Seems like a lot of people WANT this to be more than it is and feast on the media blowing it out of proportion.

And then there are the people who WANT this to be all about the media.

[valhalla360]

allen8106 wrote:
The organization I work for has implement a ban on all air travel, international and domestic.

Mine too...but I figure it's the corporate lawyers making the call.

If an employee dies because the company put them in harms way, that's a really big payout. Much cheaper to cancel a few trips.