Lots of money lost by Australian lobster exporters to China because eating events have been cancelled by the Chinese Communist Party for the duration of the virus. Wonder if they will expect Australians to buy them - the people they usually charge up to $150 a kilogram so that they can sell them to the Chinese much cheaper!

Another warning to exporters: get off your backsides and find markets in democratic, Western countries with decent health systems and respect for their populations. You are not dealing with a country or its people, fatheads. You are dealing with the CCP, which values none of those things.

A Pacific atoll with a Polynesian population.

Many of these are visited only 3 or 4 times a year by a small copra boat, which itself has very little contact with large areas of population.

Health care is somewhat limited, but it may become so in big cities. You may find the menu a little boring, & the recreation opportunities may pale after a while, but you should be pretty safe. The locals will be able to teach you how to survive on a rather limited offering, but they can be fun to be with, & won't demand you dress for dinner.

Somewhere where Opinionistics's exaggerations can't be heard.

Stop travelling ! What's the point of travelling anyway if people come back & not having learnt anything in other places !

Hasbeen: Samoa? The measles epidemic there has made about 5800 people ill, and killed 83, out of a population of just over 200,000. If the new Wuhan virus had an equivalent effect in China, 43 million would become ill and about 600,000 die. Unless you had been vaccinated, you would be in greater danger in Samoa.

Ttbn. I suspect the Samoans are considering how to handle 'these people and their nasty bugs'. These people being Europeans who introduced many nasty, and fatal bugs to vulnerable populations across the world.