Coronavirus outbreak

[mjr]

As some have said already basic hand washing is the best line of defence. [...] Hand gel no matter how much you plaster on is not an effective substitute for soap and water.

I agree with much of what you write, but official advice is to use alcohol hand gel when you can't wash: https://www.gov.uk/government/publi...general-public#preventing-spread-of-infection

Maybe not a substitute, but better than nothing.

 

[vickster]

See post #427 above

It was that very report that said Milan isn’t in the zone.
He has been tested but had not yet had the results so he may just have a cold (he actually said he felt broadly well)

 

[Archie_tect]

Just heard a radio ad for Saga cruises, 35% off!
Anybody fancy getting away from all the panic ....

4 weeks for the price of 2...

 

[NorthernSky]

holiday paid for to Greece in May
the news has the life scared out of me now with this coronavirus, but i'm determined to go unless the foreign office advises against travel to the country at the time.
anyone else got hols booked, plan of action?

 

[Deleted member 26715]

We have the US booked in October, not a great deal can be done about it, although some friends up the road have just gone on a cruise which starts off in Vietnam, I honestly don't think I would have gone.

 

[Levo-Lon]

4 weeks for the price of 2...

Do pay the extra for a sea view room

 

[Archie_tect]

Do pay the extra for a sea view room

Even better with an opening porthole to be able to:
a. converse with the BBC reporter on shore, and,
b. quickly return any undigested seafood to the ocean.

 

[Mo1959]

Just waiting on the panic starting here, although the kids weren't that close to the outbreak in Italy. Local school ski trip.

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/...xwRvGSnHhOpkSbDAPfVAbKDdJabRRDnRs6K414uRC1aNs

 

[gbb]

Turkey in August.
Kinda hoping there will be a vaccine before then, i'm not sure this is all going to settle down without it.

I also said to my wife the other day...pay by CC, get another layer of protection if it all goes pear shaped. Too late was the reply, its almost all paid already, not by CC.

 

[dodgy]

Vaccine is at least a year away.

 

[The Crofted Crest]

Northern Italy, tomorrow morning.

 

[alicat]

^^^^ gulp, are you still going?

 

[fossyant]

Does Prestatyn count - almost every weekend (it's over the border). CC'er MTB weekends in N. Wales for June and October.

Oh and it's my 25th wedding anniversary in August - not booked anything just yet !

 

[The Crofted Crest]

^^^^ gulp, are you still going?

You betcha! It'll be nice and quiet.

 

[ianrauk]

USA in May, Greece in September.
Not in the slightest worried