Why I'm not worried about taking my family to Italy amid a coronavirus outbreak

My first step in deciding whether my family will be safe is not to count the number of headlines about coronavirus, but to check the travel advice for Italy on the Smart Traveller website."Due to a heightened risk of sustained local transmission of coronavirus in parts of northern Italy, we now advise you to exercise a high degree of caution in the regions of Lombardy and Veneto.

"The key message that should give all countries hope, courage and confidence is that this virus can be contained, indeed there are many countries that have done exactly that," WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.

Don't need to read the source because reading the headline is dumb enough for me.

Seriously you are a foolish person and you are putting your children at risk🤨travelling in the plane is one off the most dangerous environments because of aircon🤨to take that risk could be the worse decision of your life and your childrens life😡why would you take that risk😧

don't forget to visit China, south Korea and Japan

Coz it’s a cold !

You checked a website.

No way would I go to Italy. I am confident in Singapore because there is competence and people are willing to follow the law. Not so sure about Italy. Thinking Europe is about to cop this bad.

Not contracting corona virus is racist.

Have fun on Christmas Island!

It would be racist not to according to ABC. Many ABC journalists off shortly for a holiday in Wuhan province. Bringing the kids too, all those racists would won't travel to China. Not letting in the uni students is racist. It is all rasist everybody is and sexist.

Selfish, ill-informed and irresponsible.

Did ‘Smart Traveller’ pay this idiot to write such ill-informed drivel? I expect better from you. A lack of concern for passing on virus if asymptomatic on return is selfish. This reads like a ‘keep the plebs calm. Nothing to be concerned about’ Gov ad.

I would. If you want a model of how not to contain an outbreak look to how Italians do it. Xyella in olive trees is a case in point. Local self interest rules.

🤞

Totally irresponsible.

Yeah. Don't come back till this thing is over. Regards, rest of Australia.

Why I’m not interested in reading this garbage

Great, glad your not worried to go, excuse us for putting you and your family on Christmas island when you get back.

Travel stories as 'analysis'

If you think there's only a few deaths from this in China you would have to be a complete wombat

Good analysis - but the thing is you might put my family at risk by knowingly visiting an outbreak area and then coming back to Australia having unknowingly contracted it.

I think I'll stick my head in a Mincer I'm sure it would be relatively safe I just had to take a few precautions

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