My wife’s cousin went to visit his mother in a nursing home 20 years ago and he was having a nasty flu. My wife claims it killed her aunt and the other patients in the room. This virus is obviously potent but not the black plague.
No, it’s not. Another good thing is that it doesn’t seem to affect children that much, because small children are a reservoir of germs! Anybody who has ever taught kindergarten can tell you that!
So I think it’s good to be prudent on family visits. You’d expect people to be smart enough not to visit if they thought they had the flu or some other communicable disease, but they don’t seem to get that point. It’s very irresponsible of them.