Aibu tombe scared to fly to Heathrow because of coronavirus?

[moumoute]

I booked my short getaway to London a while ago and never get to travel...but I'm scared to catch the virus and bring it home. Aibu?

perhaps should have been clearer that the anti-bac gel is not against the tiniest chance of getting this virus. It is for general hygiene if you can't wash.

you don't eat the stuff so it will have no effect on your 'system'.

OMG I walked past the chinese ready meals section in Tesco this morning... am I at risk too??

Get a grip.

You are being ridiculous.

Where are you flying from?

? Where are you coming from???????

You don’t need to ‘eat’ the stuff for anti-bac anything to have an effect on the good bacteria in your system. That includes anti-bac wipes, cleaning sprays etc. We absorb it through our skin.

Regular hand washing is your best defence against viruses/bugs etc. Or wear gloves on public transport.

I'm in a small town in Sweden atm

YABU

Incubation is 5 days to 2 weeks. The virus could be around already but it hasn't blossom!

Yes. That was easy.

And it's airborne...

pineapple

You need to stay away from the internet and burn all devices op. The very same wifi you are using to post might have been used to watch a news report, or read a bbc article on the subject. You never know, I watched the news earlier & I could be infecting you just by posting on your thread.

You might have just eaten a prawn cracker snd typed on your phone without 26 applications of hand gel.

There are many airborne viruses circulating at this point.
This is not Ebola.
Take precautions but don't overreact.

Heathrow is a major hub. It's really quite likely that the first class (which will be in those travelling) could be spread in the queues there

Moumoute You do talk some rubbish. How can you say you never get to travel?

In January 2017 you were living in London but wanting to move out to Hove. Or St Albans. Although weirdly in that same month, you were also living in Norway. Yet in March 2019 you'd apparently been living in Sweden for four years.

In January 2017 you thought about moving back to London, even though one thread said you already lived there and had lived there previously for nine years, but were scared because of all the crime here. Now you're scared of flying to Heathrow because of coronavirus that the UK has yet to have one single case of.

I think you're a bit strange.

Op probably lives in Peckham

Martha Go have a read of some of their stuff. It's great shit.

I think you're a bit strange.

This has been around since December so chances are it’s already everywhere but people think it’s just the flu .
I’d only cancel a trip to China , not anywhere else

No. It's not everywhere disguised as flu yet.

It's clinically different and there are specific diagnostic tests for it. The health authorities would have spotted them by now.

There will be more people infected than the reported cases, though, of course.

It sounds rather like this thread may disappear shortly. But just in case... the fatality rate for the coronavirus is currently slightly higher than flu. But we don’t know that for sure because it’s extremely likely that self resolving cases weren’t known about and that plenty more people have survived it than there are records for. The people dying are compromised with other health conditions and/or age.

The Spanish flu, which is what perhaps people are worried it may become, was fatal in young, healthy people, and spread extremely fast. This is a very different illness and chances are that a healthy person who caught it would feel grim but be fine in the end.

You are far, far more likely to be run crossing the road. Are you going to stay on the same side of the road on your visit?

Bring on Brexit so the media can stop wipping up a frenzy over this.

A whole 106 people have died, out of a world population of eight billion. Of those the majority were elderly and/or suffering from pre-existing respiratory conditions. And more importantly, people are being discharged from hospital having made a full recovery.

Corona virus is nothing new
I remember nursing kids with it back in 2010
There was no epidemic and people lived
Relax