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When the Mrs. and I were in Italy over the Christmas break, the places we we're at were full of Chinese tourists.

K12 schools in Minnesota haven't closed yet, but everyone involved in my wife's circles have been instructed to start drawing up plans for online curriculum delivery. I suspect that next week's state boys basketball tournament will be cancelled, and this weekend's girls basketball tournament has been forced behind closed doors.

I'm in the "move aggressively now" camp, because if we're waiting until it's obvious to close schools, it's too late.

The problem is that it's not THAT irrational.

Yes, mortality rates for anyone who is not old or with underlying medical conditions are very low. I'm not worried about what would happen if I catch COVID-19.

But so far everything shows that this is much more transmissable than the flu. ESPECIALLY if you don't take these sort of precautions. It has a longer incubation period, and you may be asymptomatic for 24-48 hours [or more] while still being contagious.

So I look at it this way... Sunday night we're planning to do our St Patrick's Day celebration with the kids and my wife's dad and step-mom. They're not "old", at only 65. But he has Szogren's Syndrome (an autoimmune disease) so is more susceptible to and at higher risk for these things.

How would I feel if I'd gone to a conference tournament, came home, was completely asymptomatic, and then found out that I'd infected him and he was hospitalized or [god forbid] died?

These containment procedures are there for a reason.

As I've said, I'm not sure if they're going too far or not. But at least I understand why they're doing it.

This is the problem. I truly believe this.

Oh, and don't get in the way of one of their "convoy" people trains. They'll run your ass over and not be sorry.

Totally different expectations of courtesy, and proximity, in many Asian nations.  It's just cultural.

First time I noticed it was during a high school trip to Hawaii.  At the time, it was mostly Japanese tourists (they practically owned the island of Oahu in the 80s/early 90s), although now Chinese tourists are also prevalent there.  The major difference was in waiting for access to confined spaces.  For them, waiting for an elevator, they push up against one another and past each other, in an effort to get to the front.  Then, the moment the elevator doors open, nobody is waiting for the folks on the elevator to get off first, it's just a complete free-for-all with people trying to get off, while being pushed and shoved around by people trying to get on.  In American and most Western cultures, that's rude behavior.  For them, it's simple, daily life.