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I mentioned in a different post that Henry and I made a decision to take a break from hosting earlier this year (in January).
We've always only hosted international guests and mostly exchange students. Plus, we are home-share hosts with a private guest room & bath but shared kitchen.
The fact that an exchange student would be in contact with a huge group of 20-something students from all over the world at a time like this worried us since there's a limit to what we can and cannot ask of a guest.
Henry and I were not worried for ourselves but rather more for our parents - who we visit at least once or twice a month.
When we made this decision, covid-19 was considered a problem only/mostly in China, and there was limited screening of people from the Wuhan area only.
Henry and I had were vacationing in Boracay end of January (during lunar new year holiday) when it spread like wildfire all across Asia. Our parents wanted us to cancel that vacation and just stay home.... but at the time we felt we could keep ourselves safe with the right precautions. We also had vacation plans for April~May, which we are in the process of cancelling. 2 of the 3 hotels we booked actually reached out to us first, informing us that our bookings would be cancelled with full refunds (even though my bookings were non-refundable).
We were initially thinking we'll wait till end of March to decide what to do.... and all our bookings were non-refundable anyway, with travel insurance not covering cancellations because they fall under the general exclusion for an epidemic/pandemic.
I saw on the news that more than 70~80 countries around the world have some sort of entry restriction or mandatory quarantine in place for all passengers coming off flights from S.Korea so hotels and airlines are proactively cancelling all bookings from Korean guests. - I don't blame them for not wanting us to come.
No one should be travelling right now.