Hey I saw your tags about the coronavirus and I wanted to say that I don’t give a flying fuck about whether the dumb people traveling get infected while they travel, the worry is THEM infecting OTHER PEOPLE in places where there are few cases of the coronavirus. Remember that plenty of people are carriers but show no symptoms
Hi. I would like to explain that I queued that post before many places were quarantined, before any country put up travel bans, before this situation escalated in the first place. I think it was March 11. So, as you can understand (I hope), the situation has since changed and my views on the topic have also changed. I did still delete the post though, as it’s definitely no longer relevant. I forgot it even existed. I live in a country where the Coronavirus has not become a huge epidemic as of yet, at least not in the scale of Italy and Spain and the like. But even we are taking huge precautions, limiting travel and large gatherings. And I think it is the right thing to do, it’s better to try to prevent as many people as possible from getting infected. I, too, have relatives and friends who are in the risk groups for the virus, so I am very conscious and worried about this.
I’m not gonna go on a huge rant (well, bigger than that ^) to try to justify myself. I think the virus is a very serious issue, and I’m following my country’s suggestions to stay indoors, especially since I, too, am showing symptoms of having the virus myself. So, I know it’s no joke. But I would like to point out that people who did travel in the past few weeks (before all this went down) probably didn’t understand the gravity of the situation (like I didn’t either), and/or had engagements they were unable to get out of, at least without losing tons of money in the process. So, I don’t think it’s necessarily fair to call them all dumb for it. But if anyone were to try to travel (unnecessarily) now, now that the situation is as serious as it is, and now that there are literal travel bans stopping people from making these decisions - yeah, I would agree with you and call them dumb as well.