My 70-year-old mom lives in Hong Kong and she's due to fly to Australia for a sight-seeing tour with her friends. They've paid for everything and all her friends are set to go ahead as planned, but with the corona virus spreading outside of China I'm quite anxious about her flying (it's a 10-hour flight each way!) and would very much rather she doesn't go.
She's very torn because she's not going to get her money back if she cancel, and all her friends are going and they're telling her everything's going to be fine. Perhaps she's less likely to catch the virus in Australia than in Hong Kong, but it's really the long-haul flights that i'm worried about. From my point of view, this is really not "essential" travel, the fatality rate is particularly high for elderly people (i think it's >10% for people over 70), plus I'm 30-week pregnant with no family over here in the UK, so I'm just really worried that i wouldn't be able to fly to her or do anything from here if she got sick while travelling!
I've told her my worry and that I'd very much rather she doesn't go, but AIBU? Before the outbreak we were also planning for her to come to the UK in April (to support me and my husband as we're first-time parents), but if I'm asking her to cancel her trip to Australia, would it be unreasonable for me then to still ask that she comes to the UK for us??