Airbnb needs to stop extending cancellation policy for a flu that you can recover from

[Nizar16]

Airbnb acted untimely and unnecessarily by announcing this free cancellation policy because the us government acted untimely with the stay home orders which should have been implemented back in December when the whistleblower in China publicly announced the virus. Instead the president and the government did not follow the policy and promised procedures that 142 countries signed on to enforce following any outbreak in any country. Instead they labeled it a hoax and delayed the response 4 months 

so Airbnb is following incomplete and untimely late orders for a pandemic that could have been easily avoided and controlled and they are making it worse by wiping out the income of hosts without asking our feedback 

if you look at the number of infected people that recover , it’s is better than any other virus in past outbreaks and therefore it does not qualify to be extenuating circumstances and I urge Airbnb to stop extending this policy for a flu that you can recover from 

Airbnb had no right to jump the gun and override the host cancellation policy to begin with when the right step would be to let travelers and guests work it out then contact Airbnb to request a refund 

[Anonymous]

Moderators, where is the "Eject Troll" button?

[Juan63]

@Anonymous Why is he considered a Troll?

[Melodie-And-John0]

@Nizar16 ,  With all due respect, Think, Push, Talk-  In the Army, we use to have a saying that referred to Commissioned officers propensity to pick up a radio hand-mic and depress the transmit key before they even thought about what they were going to say.  That would make for some less than useful long messages that tied up the radio network and opened them up to DFing by the NME (direction Finding).  The same holds true here as well.  

I suspect if your one of the  nearly 19,000 humans newly deceased in New York State from the virus since March 1, you would probably call it an extenuating circumstance if you could, but you wouldn't be able to, cause your dead from a virus that "You can recover from" ...    Please think, Push and Talk, thanks, stay well, JR

[Nizar16]

I am referring to local travel in my region is not extenuating circumstances and by over ruling hosts policy it deprives us of the opportunity to talk to guests first 

Our government is guilty of n the protocol agreed and signed on by The World Health Organization in the event of an outbreak and that is why those numbers of deaths occurred 

[Melodie-And-John0]

Sorry I was a bit harsh @Nizar16 , way too many sick and dead people from this awful thing that  could have been stopped in its tracks and never should have been shared with the world.  Sometimes the written word isn't as easy to get all the important nuances from that we get talking face to face. 

Im pretty sure that Airbnb is not really to the point it can parse regions  accurately around the globe.  The situation is still pretty fluid and hard to track, lots of generalizations in effect.   You may want to try other means of attracting guests locally until the ground stops moving, it could be awhile before that happens.  Stay well, JR

[Mike-And-Jane0]

@Nizar16 

I think it has to be an Extenuating Circumstance when your Government (in my case the UK) bans people from staying in our apartment. In addition many of our guests have been stopped from travelling from their countries which again seems to be an EC to me.

[Pilar1]

So @Nizar16 , what do you think was the right course of action, both by the WHO and your government? Please enlighten us.