My mother is in Singapore

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As of today my mother's ship is safely docked in Singapore. They are letting people disembark without any checks other than the now-routine fever ones. She will be going from the ship directly to the Singapore airport on February 14 and flying nonstop from there to San Francisco (and thence to Chicago, which is home). Apparently whatever pressure the ship's owners brought to bear did its job.

She'll probably go somewhere warm for the next several weeks (she hates winter), but there are lots of warm places without the danger of coronavirus.