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I love how they get one "expert" to say something and that's suddenly a news story. > "I think there's extremely low risk of getting novel coronavirus on a cru

• ineedasername 7y ago
  Not only that, even if he was right, it was an irrelevant point. Sure, if you take all the people going on cruise ships at the time, most didn't get coronavirus. but as with all of the precautions being taken, none of this is solely about personal individual health risk, but also about risk to others. So, yeah, individual risk was probably low, but some people would get it, and spread it to others as they traveled, and then spread it some more when they got back home.
  • perl4ever 7y ago
    The issue that I would have with the advice, whether or not it was obvious that the virus was a huge deal at the time, is that whether you get it isn't going to be an independent probability. If there's an outbreak on the ship, everybody gets it, regardless of what the overall odds are. I'm not sure why, but that seems psychologically more concerning to me. Kind of like the risk of a plane crash vs. a car crash.