View this post on Hive: Its World War Z as Israel closes its borders to Coronavirus
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Israel is leading the world in drastic action to keep Coronavirus out.
My flight from Tel Aviv to Seoul tomorrow night was just cancelled by Korean Air after Israel turned an entire planeload of people (130 Koreans and 70 foreigners) around and sent them back (after taking 12 Israelis off the plane in Tel Aviv in full hazmat suits).
I have managed to get a full refund of my ticket as a result of this.
I'd been trying for a week or more to cancel with a full refund because I could see how things were developing.
But Korean Air stuffed me around sending me from their main call center to the Israeli office and back with each saying they couldn't handle the request.
The government is even considering a complete closure of the borders to non-residents!
This is scarily like the plot of the movie World War Z, where Israel closes its borders and keeps the Zombie Apocalypse out (until Brad Pitt arrives).
I am glad you got refunded. I hope Israel extends it's quarantines to a month, as it's been shown the virus can remain latent for at least 24 days without causing symptoms. I hope Korea also manages to quash it's incipient epidemic. What horrible destruction cults have caused Korea in the last decade!
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Yes, I've seen this extended latency information.
Biggest problem is that a large percentage of people show no symptoms at all. Apparently 50% of Diamond Princess passengers were asymptomatic and another 40% had mild cold like symptoms that most people wouldn't pay any attention to. 10% got really sick though.
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