Honestly think it will effect them. I haven’t partaken in anything lately but if I was active it would be keeping me away. A few weeks ago I paid no mind to it, but the news is doing a good job of making me lift an eyebrow at this virus. I’m even considering canceling an upcoming business flight to Phoenix because there’s now reports of a possible 3 cases in NYC and JFK is a breeding ground,
I usually don’t pay attention to these things. SARS for example didn’t bother me at all. This one is hitting my radar.
Let's put things into perspective:
According to estimates from the CDC over 10,000 deaths and 180,000 hospitalizations in US since October from the flu and the season still has a couple of months to go.
- The average number of flu deaths during the 1990s was 36,000.
- Average number over a longer time frame from 1976 to 2007 was 23,607 deaths.
- If you take the number of deaths year wise, you will find a vast variation with a low of 3,349 deaths during the flu season of 1986-87 to a high of 48,614 in 2003-04.
Relative of mine and his 2 young kids had flu last week. He lost a week of work and his wife who didn't get flu
yet, lost a week of work taking care , cleaning up, etc., of them.
None of them got the vaccine.
I got the flu in 1973. I was very fit, maybe 6% body fat and all muscle, just got out of the service —
I didn't need no stinking vaccine — as I was invincible — and thought I was going to die. Lost 25 lbs; when I wasn't burning up with fever I was shivering uncontrollably. Couldn't sleep, couldn't eat and had dry heaves for days (my abdominal muscles were so sore from the heaving that they actually distracted me a bit from my throbbing head ache).
My wife at the time had the vaccine and didn't get sick.
When I finally got back to work people were shocked on how I looked and stayed away from me.
From that year on,46 years, I and everyone in my family and all my relatives got flu shots every October. Not one got the flu.
Not one.
Yeah, yeah, flu vaccine not even close to 100% effective - but in 46 years
not one.
Obviously you are concerned about Corona virus enough to change travel plans, as there are somewhere between 3 - 9 known cases (not deaths) of Coronavirus
in US and there is no vaccine yet. Luckily for you, since you are concerned about your health, you did get a flu shot — right?