AIBU about Coronavirus and my colleague?

[Honsandrebels]

A colleague is due back in the office today from 10 days in Beijing. AIBU to be nervous that they may be infected with Coronavirus? My DD almost died from pneumonia as a baby and has damage to one lung, so am terrified about her contracting something like this. I think I am being U as realistically she could come into contact with it anywhere. But this is a person I know who has been in China the whole length of the outbreak. Ideally I would want to work from home until the colleague is 14 days clear, to protect my DD. Even writing this I am pretty sure I am being U. But opinions appreciated.

Everyone saying OP was being unreasonable do you still feel the same?

Yes. There are two confirmed cases in the UK. I still think it's important to retain some perspective.

Yes me too. It’s still vanishingly unlikely to be a problem.

The colleague probably won’t get paid if they stay at home...

Everyone saying OP was being unreasonable do you still feel the same?

Yes. Complete over reaction.

Sorry I haven't read all replies but our colleagues who either work in China or recently returned are to work from home for a minimum of two weeks. I hope you're employers are being responsible too.

Also those that are bashing the OP, I assume you don't work in a communal office? Most likely SAHM without the worry of having to get public transport or work in an air conditioned office.

So you haven't bothered to read all the replies, but you've nonetheless proceeded to make daft assumptions about anyone who disagrees with you?

As it happens I work with two hundred people from mainland China. Still think it’s ridiculous.

@Butterflyflower1234 or maybe some of us hold down responsible jobs in open offices, travel by public transport and are able to apply rational thought and some form of risk assessment

Also those that are bashing the OP, I assume you don't work in a communal office? Most likely SAHM without the worry of having to get public transport or work in an air conditioned office.

Maybe , yeah. Or maybe some of us work in the medical science field and have a better understanding of this than others, and therefore don't feel the need to be hysterical.

I'm gobsmacked at how patronising your post is. Those silly SAHM's, eh? What would they know about anything.

Look at the stats regarding the virus and say... flu we get here already. The flu is claiming many more lives and has an incubation period as well.

However, if they are coming back from the region PHE should step in and quarantine them anyway

If the number of cases ramps up, what happens then? I can’t see places like Sainsbury’s and small business paying staff to stay off in quarantine? Then people can’t pay their rent and lose their houses.

Fine if you can work from home.

I can imagine workplaces like the NHS putting staff on a stage one absence warning for being off sick / in quarantine for having coronavirus.

First coronavirus death outside of China.

Yes you’re totally unreasonable. Do you know how big China is? You’re more likely to get it from someone who went to York

Go to the NIH's BLAST database and search for a genetic match to virus serial # AVP78033.1 and it comes up with a 100% match for the "Wuhan Seafood Market Virus". AVP78033.1 was registered with the NIH in March of 2018 by the Chinese Military. A lab in the U.S. just found HIV attached to the Coronavirus.
blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/protein/AVP78033.1
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/protein/YP_009724392.1?report=genbank&log$=prottop&blast_rank=1&RID=3CFMZWSH01R
blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi?PROGRAM=blastp&PAGE_TYPE=BlastSearch&BLAST_SPEC=&LINK_LOC=blasttab&LAST_PAGE=blastn&QUERY=AVP78033.1
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.30.927871v2