Coronavirus Wreaking Havoc on Your Travel Plans?

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Trip of a lifetime with no end in sight -- life on small boats stuck at sea.

Trip of a lifetime with no end in sight

Around 10,000 small boats, sailed by families, couples and individuals, ply the oceans each year. But in 2020, they're stuck at sea because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Find out how they're coping while trapped in paradise.

www-cnn-com.cdn.ampproject.org

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Richard

 

[b2bailey]

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing. This is when I appreciate your eyes and ears.

 

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North Carolina Airport Insanely Long Lines ....Passengers Fuming Over Missed Flights.

Insanely Long Lines Has Passengers Fuming At North Carolina Airport

An airport in North Carolina's insanely packed with long lines, and passengers are fuming.

www.tmz.com

Richard

 

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COVID-19 asymptomatic in over 80 per cent of cases, cruise ship study finds.

COVID-19 asymptomatic in over 80 per cent of cases, cruise ship study finds

Eight in 10 people on board a cruise ship who tested positive had no symptoms.

www.sciencefocus.com

Richard

 

[Monykalyn]

COVID-19 asymptomatic in over 80 per cent of cases, cruise ship study finds.

COVID-19 asymptomatic in over 80 per cent of cases, cruise ship study finds

Eight in 10 people on board a cruise ship who tested positive had no symptoms.

www.sciencefocus.com

Richard

A study on infectivity of asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 carriers

An ongoing outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread around the world. It is debatable whether asymptomatic COVID-19 virus carriers are contagious. We report here a case of the asymptomatic patient and present clinical characteristics ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Latest study. I've wondered about all this "asymptomatic carrier" business. IF such a HIGH population of a supposedly HUGE infectious disease was supposedly super contagious then we should have ALL had this dang virus by now. Which makes one wonder just because kids can be carriers doesn't mean they will automatically infect everyone. Even the earliest studies in China showed close family didn't all get infected-why not? Some were "asymptomatic" but still were members of a family in CLOSE contact for days and never infected.

 

[Conan]

I've wondered about all this "asymptomatic carrier" business.

Unfortunately armchair, amateur, intuition-based analysis rarely solves complex science problems (unless you’re Einstein).

Here’s an article that might put a qualified reader on track towards the answer you’re looking for. It’s outside my field, so I haven’t read it.

https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/attachments/shifting-gears/1985206d1585410897-corona-virus-thread-2003.12055.pdf

 

[Monykalyn]

Unfortunately armchair, amateur, intuition-based analysis rarely solves complex science problems (unless you’re Einstein).

Here’s an article that might put a qualified reader on track towards the answer you’re looking for. It’s outside my field, so I haven’t read it.

https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/attachments/shifting-gears/1985206d1585410897-corona-virus-thread-2003.12055.pdf

Interesting- they were still working with data from up to March 25.
"epidemic and the impact of mitigatory social distancing. More generally, there are uncertainties in all parameters of our model and these would translate into uncertainties in forecasts and estimates"--ie they took their best guess and tried to plug it into a computer. India is interesting as well due to the amount in poverty and large family groups. Like Brazil-where 13 mil live in what can be crowded and unsanitary favelas-any disease is gonna rip through the less economically secure. I was reading today the differences in the San Fran Bay population and testing-2 populations side by side-one wealthy and white, one mostly latinex and working class/poor-guess who had high infection rates vs who had ZERO?
It is becoming obvious that the longer the exposure, the closer the contact, the more crowded or enclosed the space-the higher risk your exposure will result in a symptomatic infection that will lead to hospitalization/fatality-and even then you still need to be susceptible (you can see that here as the majority of deaths came from care homes). Even in the Bay mass testing study the great majority of cases were asymptomatic.

 

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Singapore to halt construction on new airport terminal for two years.

Singapore to halt construction on new airport terminal for two years

Singapore will halt construction of the fifth terminal at its Changi Airport for at least two years to assess how the COVID-19 pandemic will impact the aviation sector and the future of travel, the city-state's transport minister said on Tuesday.

in.reuters.com

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Richard