Work in Thai massage parlour have had customers calling about new virus and are we Chinese.
Tell them we all are Thai but they decide not to book. Worried now that this virus might affect us as already it has gone quiet.

Although it's so easy to connect 2 things, I have heard the chinese jokes/assumptions and have a suspicion some will or may use it as a reason not to book. However I've a good idea it's just a quiet Monday for many reasons. I also suspect many will just carry on as usual, there's always a reason to tie in with the guilt and provide justification not to go ahead. I have the start of a cold, just a few sneezes I am as usual telling clients, whether they suddenly assume I've picked up coronavirus is up to them.

Ridiculous what some people think.

It's like them saying - Oh, you're a bird you must have bird flu 

I agree with Mirror, it's just another excuse. Unless you're actually in China in the affected area ...

I have a regular who is so paranoid about catching things that when he does a slight cold is the flu, despite only having it for 3 days  and a slight cough is pneumonia.

Brings a whole new meaning to 'man flu.'   

I've had the flu a couple of times and believe me you're in bed for about two weeks unable to move. I've also had other serious illnesses where I've become completely bed bound and it just annoys me how people seem to want to dramatise everything.

Anyway, back on topic. Yes, just another excuse.

Work in Thai massage parlour have had customers calling about new virus and are we Chinese.
Tell them we all are Thai but they decide not to book.

People are stupid. I bumped into my young female healthy as an apple neighbour last night and asked her: "How are you?" (small polite neighbour talk), she them proceeded to go into drama queen mode about me how she had sneezed a couple of times last night and she was 100% sure for a fact she had the corona virus. Keep in mind this woman lives in central London and hasn't set foot in china in her whole life.

It is in the UK now.

I'm worried about this. I had a client this week who teaches Chinese students & he had a cold type virus. It wasn't a full service booking but I'm paranoid now.  I used alcohol gel a few times during & after & used my sanitising water on everything that came into contact with him.

I'll be upping my l-lysine supplements to double dose.

Had a guy yesterday say he would avoid Chinese escorts just incase. I think that's a little ignorant IMO.

I have just received a text message from my GP that if you have recently returned from China and have flu symptoms, don't visit the surgery and call 111.

I'll take my chances and will keep on working until the first London case.

Folks, if you think that the government is not doing enough, do email the Department of Health via gov.uk, email your MP, tweet and email.
I think it's clear now that sooner or later there will be a lockdown in London, there is no way of avoiding the epidemic, it's just a matter of minimising the consequences.
When the crematoriums will be working 24/7 it will be too late to email and complain.
If all international travel will be stopped and all travel within the country restricted, no public transport and gatherings, I hope there is a chance of minimising this.

If it sounds extreme, well I'd rather be called a lunatic to my face than have written 'remained calm' on my tombstone, except wait, there will be no tombstones as all bodies will have to be cremated immediately to get rid of the virus, just as it's happening in China.

I really wish I'm going overboard with this, Ana.
450 is the official figure given by the Chinese Communist Party. If there was a 450 death toll, they wouldn't shut 3 cities down and build hospitals with thousands of beds.
The 'regular flu is more deadly than coronavirus' narrative peddled by some media is something I would love to believe.
I have never heard of people wearing hazmat suits when dealing with the flu though.
There are 3 cases now in the UK, with the latest in Brighton (transported to a London hospital).

I think you're blowing things WAY out of proportion, 80s. We had nothing like you're imagining with SARS, for example, or swine flu.

Or ebola or bird flu 

The media love to scare people. Fear is what sells news.