I am an airplane/airline lover so often see things through that lense.
https://www.straitstimes.com/busine...sident-virus-threatens-airlines-survivalThis article from Singapore has the Korean Air president indicating the airlines survival at stake with 80% of fleet grounded.
Now the European action which unfortunately is warranted for the next many 2-6 weeks to stop the wave.
https://nypost.com/2020/03/10/itali...ss-shares-chilling-coronavirus-thoughts/The above account is from a doctor in Bergamo, Italy where it describes how the hospital reorganized thinking the worst and then a quiet nothing pause and then the tsunami of patients needing beds, ICUs, all with bilateral interstitial pneumonia which can cause irrersible lung damage and death.
So, all hype? the colleges don't want to see their kids in ICUs. Harvard, Ohio State, Florida, Notre Dame you name it.
The alternative is to allow the bug to spread and take our death and damage tolls.
Airfare/cruises are dirt cheap next week. We booked both two nights ago and are now gamblers on whether to get on a plane Sunday for a Monday-Friday sailing.total invested $210 each for airfare and 4 night cruise. Plus tax/gratuities.
After all, nobody has ever told the cruise line at embarkation they didn't have diarrhea when they actually did just to get on the boat.
In this case the carrier may be asymptomatic and just road the subway to jfk and sat next grandmother whose grand child just escaped Milan, Italy and gave a souvenir of the leaning tower of Pisa.
We've thought of just going to a hotel in Miami, wiping it down and the rental car and going to the open air beach and eating pop tart ramen and canned soda and beer.
At least it will be warm.
