Surely the government should ban traveling

Thrugelmir

Other forms of travel are available not just flying. 

renegadefm

Actually since I created this thread,  its on the news that British Airways are the first to start banning flights. And more are expected to follow this trend to contain the virus. So thank God they have seen sense to prevent this evil virus from killing more people. 
Let's not forget its now a global threat not just a hand full of countries. 

Una_Voidable

renegadefm said:

Actually since I created this thread,  its on the news that British Airways are the first to start banning flights. And more are expected to follow this trend to contain the virus. So thank God they have seen sense to prevent this evil virus from killing more people. 
Let's not forget its now a global threat not just a hand full of countries. 

It's about time, and hooray for a bit of common sense. Just hope it's not too little, too late because if the source of infection is from outside our country any then other action than severely restricting access from abroad is illogical.

Thrugelmir

renegadefm said:

Actually since I created this thread,  its on the news that British Airways are the first to start banning flights. And more are expected to follow this trend to contain the virus. So thank God they have seen sense to prevent this evil virus from killing more people. 
Let's not forget its now a global threat not just a hand full of countries. 

Difference between cancelling flights due to decreased demand. Rather than outright bans. There's been restrictions on some destinations for a while on a global level. 

Nebulous2

Singapore Airlines cut over 3000 flights about a week ago. Nothing to do with bans, simply reduced demand. If your flight has been cut you go on the next one. 

renegadefm

Nebulous2 said:

Singapore Airlines cut over 3000 flights about a week ago. Nothing to do with bans, simply reduced demand. If your flight has been cut you go on the next one. 

Its not as easy as that. We need to contain this before it slowely wipes out human kind. 

strawb_shortcake

renegadefm said:

Nebulous2 said:

Singapore Airlines cut over 3000 flights about a week ago. Nothing to do with bans, simply reduced demand. If your flight has been cut you go on the next one. 

Its not as easy as that. We need to contain this before it slowely wipes out human kind. 

I think we are far from that, the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic killed between 20-50m people despite WW1 taking place at the time, it killed in hours and it wasn't just the old and infirm that lost their lives to it.
Microglobalisation that we have today would have made the Spanish flu far worse I'd imagine. 
These "pandemics" occur and will occur again, people have short memories and the impacts are quickly forgotten even 1918 is fairly recent in terms of history yet how many knew of the 1918 pandemic last year? I certainly wasn't taught it at school. More recently we've had SARS, MERS and other flus that make an appearance and soon forgotten. 
You make a point of the R0 number being underestimated, but so is the infection rate, this is because there are suspected mild cases that won't even register as they raise no warning flags. 
Yes, Europe and the west are unlikely fo have peaked just yet but the end is NOT nigh.

PasturesNew

Banning travel seems obvious, but then you find out there are more than 2 flights/day and more than 1 ferry/day ..... there are probably (completely guessing) 100-1000 flights a day coming and going, every day, with 200-300 people apiece.  People travelling for business, relocations, holidays, things they've planned/booked months and years ago.   People'd find a way to travel still. Private planes, private yachts.... 

You can't shut the world down..... it's about 200-400 years too late to try that.

Thrugelmir

PasturesNew said:

Banning travel seems obvious, but then you find out there are more than 2 flights/day and more than 1 ferry/day ..... there are probably (completely guessing) 100-1000 flights a day coming and going, every day, with 200-300 people apiece.  People travelling for business, relocations, holidays, things they've planned/booked months and years ago.   People'd find a way to travel still. Private planes, private yachts.... 

You can't shut the world down..... it's about 200-400 years too late to try that.

People have rights these days. No one tells them what to do. 

John_

movilogo said:

While the govt won't admit it, they are actually more worried about economy than few people die of virus.
Not everyone infected is going to die. 

This is a false dichotomy. People will die, too, if the economy contracts.