2. Traveling to Siem Reap.
Our trip is
booked from Feb 5 until March 4, 2020.
Everything is
ready, all is in place, and our flight is on Cathay Pacific.
We have one
stop over in Hong Kong with a layover of 3 hours, but otherwise it’s all set
up. Yes, it will be a LONG flight.
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| Waiting For the Next Leg in Hong Kong (Why Does She Smile With a Mask On?) |
Please notice
the date of our departure… we are just at the beginning of the Corona Virus (COVID-19)
outbreak. The first reports appeared at the end of Dec. 2019 and quickly gained
speed. By January the news
reports are almost to the point of ‘panic’. Do we
really want to travel to Asia? It’s a
serious consideration to just drop our choice of winter solace. We are sitting
in Toronto, frozen in, but healthy. Do we want to expose ourselves to the new,
unpredictable and unknown virus? Our
chances of not getting the virus are much better in Toronto, than traveling
closer to China.
We watch the
news reports; the news about the virus is not getting better. What should we do?
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| The Red Dot Is Hong Kong |
You need to
consider this, too.
Carol worked in
health care all her life. It was her profession. When the famous SARS epidemic ran unchecked, Carol was part
of the very first team to dig deeper into the virus, to learn how it spread,
interacts, and how it can be treated or prevented. This occurred at a Canadian
Government sanctioned hospital. It was a scary time in health care and patients,
even doctors and nursing staff died during this period. Carol was part of this
as a health care professional. She managed all the staff and had to establish
unprecedented procedures and care protocols for the affected patients during
the SARS outbreak. So you might say Carol was or is ‘jaded’ (Carol says
‘informed’) when it comes to infectious viruses. She also taught a course in
infection control to nurses.
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| Leaving Hong Kong |
The new COVID-19 is
a new form of SARS, and an adaptation of the SARS virus into a more advanced
and dangerous species of viruses. Naturally, Carol was keenly aware of the
infection levels and precautions needed for the new outbreak of an even more
advanced virus, the COVID-19.
So do we go or
don’t we go?
Are we just too
dense to see the implications, the hazards?
The mind is a
dangerous thing. We can talk ourselves into anything, it seems. Panic is a true
danger to us all.
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| Low Cloud Cover In Hong Kong |
Well, we went…
as you know already.
Did we do the
right thing? Well, the future will let
us know!
If you see more
blogs from me…. Then we did the right thing.
If not… this is
the end!
