re: California Governor says they are monitoring 8,400 people for suspected coronavirus

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My company has a fairly large conference planned for late May. We haven’t been given orders to book travel yet. I’m betting they will cancel too. It will save the company money and the higher ups probably don’t even want to go to the conference so it’s a convenient excuse to cancel.

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I work for a hotel company and we already have many groups trying to test the waters of cancelling their contracts without paying the cancellation fees under the "force majeure" clause. Some of these events are months out. One is next fricking year. We are politely telling these groups that they are welcome to cancel but they will be required to pay ever dollar of the cancellation fee. This doesn't even come close to qualifying as grounds for cancellation in the US at this time.