To not allow my child on school trip due to coronavirus

[SunnyMiami]

Hi all

My 6 yr old child is due to go on a school trip next week to Manchester City Centre. Part of their trip will be going on a sight seeing bus and visiting the library.

As Manchester has the second largest Chinese community in the U.K and with the Chinese New Year having just passed, it is to be expected the city has had a lot of families/tourists from China visiting the city, used the buses etc.

AIBU to be concerned about letting my child on this trip and to think the school is taking an unnecessary risk considering what’s currently happening?

Would you let your child go on this trip?

Tia.

Will you also keep her off school for two weeks after the trip in case someone who did go is incubating the virus?

If you don’t want to leave the house, that is up to you but viruses are not limited to one nationality or ethnicity. There have been no cases in Manchester or even the whole North West.

Consider what you are actually scared of. It is not an unnecessary risk to go on a school trip at this time. Of course you can withdraw your child but the school should still run the trip.

YABU.

The school will have risk assessed this and there's no reason why Manchester should be avoided.

transmission (says the BBC) seems to require close contact with an infected or incubating person. Just going to a city which has a lot of Chinese people does not equate to that.

the coach trip, or indeed any car travel, is much more dangerous.

Yabu and as daft as those idiots who stopped eating chicken during the bird flu hysteria.

YABU.

Hahaha I live in Manchester and have just got back from town shopping which I got the train to and from. Do you think we all here stay inside?

You will need to keep your child off school for a fortnight after the trip because the rest of the class have been are you prepared to do that ?

Thanks guys. Sometimes I think when you think of something you scare yourself silly. But it’s good to hear I’m being daft and makes me feel better about letting her go on the trip.

You are being more than unreasonable. You are being quite bonkers!
Do you think Manchester's Chinese community lives in a cage? Get a grip.

Glad this has helped you see the right thing to do!

What about all of us who work in the city centre every day?
Shall I boycott the shops around there at lunch or shall I dash to the train station and hope I don’t encounter anyone or should I just quit my job and lock myself indoors forever???

I think you should do what you're comfortable with for your child but I don't believe it's necessary for the school to cancel the trip as a whole.

For context, I live in Singapore where there are 13 confirmed cases of the coronavirus. However, ALL of these cases were travellers from Wuhan (including one Singaporean who had travelled to Wuhan) and NONE of them via population contamination. This is a very small island with a large Chinese community and yet very safe. Schools are running as normal for all students who have not travelled to mainland China during the holidays and therefore it's business (including school trips!) as usual. So for me your response seems like a bit of an overreaction, but you're the parent - you can make your own judgement and that's that. You don't need the approval of strangers on the internet like myself!

You are more likely to get run over by a bus.

YABU.
Massively

You can't live your life like that though.

I've just been up to the pharmacy in my quiet suburb by Birmingham and a woman walked in full on face mask! She looked very silly.

She then took coins from the assistant, but I see she'd ommitted wearing her surgical gloves...

Op I get how you feel! I would feel the same, also avoiding large crowds right now for the same reasons, I do need to calm down, I know. That's the thing though isn't it, that even if your child missed the trip, they could still come into contact with the virus at school if another child is incubating the virus after the trip!
My anxiety is through the roof with this coronavirus, and I'm wanting to stay in, but I can't keep my dh in all the time, and if he picks it up it's just one of those things! Just got to let him go and hope for the best.

YABU, it’s a new strain of a cold not frigging Ebola.

YABU and over hysterical. What do you think all the people who live in Manchester are going to do, barricade themselves at home?

Oh dear god

Apparently you are statistically more likely to die falling down stairs
Hope you live in a bungalow op

This post has to be a joke.

And so many posts about avoiding Chinese people
I assume you mean people who appear to you as being of oriental appearance op?
You do know people of many ethnicities may have traveled to affected areas and you wouldn't realise this because they don't live in Chinatown or "look Chinese"
Ffs

I can be quite OCD but this is just ridiculous. Let your child go and remind them of good hand hygiene, important for any kind of illness.

If your child's school were planning a trip to Wuhan, then YANBU.

If they're going to a city over 5000 miles away that has not had a single case of coronavirus, then YABU. Pfb by any chance?