I'm personally doing plenty of traveling this month, taking advantage of discounted flights and hotels while lots of people rebook.
Am I mistaken? What do you guys think?
I'm personally doing plenty of traveling this month, taking advantage of discounted flights and hotels while lots of people rebook.
Am I mistaken? What do you guys think?
As to the health authorities - they are acting responsibly.
It is in the best of interest to delay, manage and contain the virus spread, even though it's probably impossible to stop, because no country is in such surplus of medical resources to be able to admit hundreds of thousands of patients with severe respiratory issues. And the collapse of some local medical systems will incur mass hysteria which will make managing the crisis really difficult. So distributing the infections is really, really important, and will save many lives.
R0 is the number of people infected on average by each case of coronavirus. These measures are designed to get R0 as low as possible, since that will greatly reduce the spread.