Hi!
Anyone concerned about catching the swine flu at
disneyland since there is contact with a lot of people? Just wondering. I booked a disney vacation for May 3. I am considering on cancelling. I probably won't get my money back from disney travel since I didn't purchase the vacation protection plan.
In a word,
yes.
I get sick almost every time I go to DL just because I have asthma and allergies, and that coupled with the air pollution, millions of hands touching everything, and weather means I touch usually end up getting sick. So I'm worried about it. Add to that the Swine Flu is a respiratory type flu, so I'm
really freaking.
Anyone who is immune compromised should be concerned. I already broached the idea of canceling with my DH and he said no way. He needs a vacay. So I'll be pounding the vitamins, and vigilantly washing my hands like a nutcase. I'll also lug along hand sanitizer (although that doesn't take the place of a good washing w/ soap and water).
The one thing we can't control is if people get it and are coughing all over the place. I wish the U.S. was more like Asia in that regard. Over there, if people are sick, they cover their mouth/nose by wearing a face mask out of courtesy for those who aren't sick. In the US, they just cough all over the place and very often forget to cover their mouths. It's just gross! I was coughed on at work yesterday by a guy standing a good 4 feet away from me and I could feel his spit land on my arm!
Imagine all the microscopic junk that became airborne that I and others around me ended up breathing in.
Disgusting! Anyway, I am now contemplating wearing a face mask to filter out the germs of the inconsiderate, ignorant people who cough all over the place and do not cover their mouths, as a preventative measure. I'll keep watching the news to see if there are any updates probably all the way up until I leave. So far, no one in the U.S. has required the use of anti-viral meds and no one has died in the U.S. So it's up to you if you want to cancel, but if I couldn't get my money back, I probably wouldn't unless I knew people were dying from it in
this country. Then again, like they said on the news,it used to be that pandemics could be somewhat confined to certain areas or continents and tooks months or years to travel the globe, but not anymore with all the air travel, car travel, rail travel. People can be infected, not even know they are infected, and be passing it along as they go along in their merry way. By the time they wake up with symptoms they could be in another country where they've just infected everyone who came into their breathing space and shared the same air.
On CNN they said the testing has shown that the virus in Mexico that killed 68 is the same virus in Cali.
