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Would you go on a weekend away or stay at home?

17 replies

LittleMissYorkshireLass · 13/03/2020 19:04

We are meant to be going away this weekend for a night (me, husband and step daughter) to a city in England. We would be getting the train from our area to a city then onto another city.

My children are with their dad this weekend and have traveled within the UK.

Would you still go or would you stay home, just planning on going to cinema etc nothing booked, just the hotel but we would accept that as it wasn't too much.

There is Coronavirus in our area, and someone we know is waiting for results.

We genuinely don't know what to do, it's not essential travel, but as we don't have symptoms do we go anyway, or choose to take less of a risk?

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EdithWeston · 13/03/2020 19:09

I'd go, but might drive rather than taking the train.

This weekend we're having a family gathering to celebrate Easter early, because we think that a number of us might be disinclined to travel for non-essential reasons by the time actual Easter comes around

crazydiamond222 · 13/03/2020 19:16

Probably ok to go but would avoid the train and cinema as they are confined spaces.

LittleMissYorkshireLass · 13/03/2020 19:19

Can't avoid the train unfortunately, otherwise we would! Could avoid the cinema even though that's one of the only things planned.

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susandelgado · 13/03/2020 19:30

I'd go. The train will probably be empty anyway 🤷‍♀️

YeahLikeNoThough · 13/03/2020 19:33

I'll give you the same advice I've given to my employees today in a professional capacity:

"It's probably fine - but anything you choose to to at this point carries a small but no longer entirely negligible risk of getting you stuck whereever you happen to be going. If you'd rather this not be a cabin somewhere in the mountains, consider delaying your rock climbing adventure. If you're prefectly happy with the prospect of your lovely 5* hotel for the next 2 weeks, go right ahead!"

alexdgr8 · 13/03/2020 19:33

i wouldnt take the risk.
how would you feel if any of you, or those dear to you, got the virus.

thefemalelemur · 13/03/2020 19:35

I'm going away next week but I'm driving. Don't think I'd be too worried about using the train but be extra careful about washing hands.

LittleMissYorkshireLass · 13/03/2020 19:35

*YeahLikeNoThough' that's a good point, as chances are low but if I was stuck in a hotel room with just my husband and step daughter, and my kids are with their dad elsewhere that would be hell! Don't think that's a risk I'm willing to take!!

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LittleMissYorkshireLass · 13/03/2020 19:36

Bold fail 😬😳

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Sertchgi123 · 13/03/2020 19:36

Stay at home.

stuntbanana · 13/03/2020 19:38

I can't see the point of travelling and potentially putting both yourself and others at risk or possibly being stuck somewhere , loose a weekend and a couple of hundred £ and go later on when it's safer

HasaDigaEebowai · 13/03/2020 19:40

I wouldn;t go.

Toohardtofindaproperusername · 13/03/2020 19:57

Have you been kn contact with the person who is being tested? If so.. .stay at home. For God's sake... stay at home, try and stay away from people as much as you can and think about others and your risk to them. This us like wildfire.... and you are part of the chain.

ellelikespizza · 13/03/2020 22:16

I'm also going away this weekend and questioning if it's the right thing to do. I'm taking my hand sanitiser and cleaning products and will be disinfecting my hotel on arrival Blush

Sharkyfan · 13/03/2020 22:27

Are we talking within the uK?
Then I would personally still do it but have good hand hygiene etc. We’re not on lockdown yet!

LittleMissYorkshireLass · 13/03/2020 23:19

We are not going now, not worth the risk.

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hookiwooki · 13/03/2020 23:22

Came to say I wouldn't. Glad to read you are not.

I wouldn't want to risk being separated from my children or getting stuck away from the comforts of my own home unnecessarily.

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