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| Mar 2, 2020 at 14:29 | comment | added | Tschallacka | Also, if you travel from the USA and return to the USA, and you get ordered by the CDC to go to a hospital for quarantaine you might be billed for the costs, or the transport to it, or by the independant specialists used and whoever else may be involved. theintercept.com/2020/02/28/… Even though the hospital waived the costs, the radiologists and ambulance service didn't. | |
| Mar 1, 2020 at 16:44 | comment | added | Peter Cordes | That's a fair point; I hadn't heard about abuse or thought of it from that angle, thanks. I just wanted to clarify that the "personal risk tolerance" you mention in your answer shouldn't be limited to just the risk to your own health, but also the risk of making a global problem worse. And to help explain why some authorities "advise against all nonessential Travel" for everyone, not just the elderly. | |
| Mar 1, 2020 at 10:34 | comment | added | averell | Of course you can take this into account. However, I find the notion to assume people are somehow personally responsible for "spreading" a dangerous one, to put it mildly. There are already too many stories of abuse directed at people with the disease from that angle. | |
| Mar 1, 2020 at 1:24 | comment | added | Peter Cordes | Still, there are cases were healthy, mid-aged people have died from the disease. - Yes, for most people, spreading the disease is a bigger problem than just catching it yourself. The authorities are having a hard time containing / preventing outbreaks. If you catch it, the big risk is starting an outbreak (and using up health-care / containment resources that could have gone elsewhere if you had stayed home), Or even passing it on to directly or indirectly to someone else who dies. There's a risk of having that on your conscience if staying home was a viable option. | |
| Feb 29, 2020 at 9:04 | history | answered | averell | CC BY-SA 4.0 |