Thanks for your replies. I'm still wavering. I don't know whether I should push DP hard to go, or choose the safe and boring option and stay home.
I'd heard masks weren't so effective. However, I was thinking that if we wore masks maybe everyone would stay away from us, reducing the number of germs in our vicinity. We could put on a bit of an act at the Bangkok airport but that might attract the attention of the people with the power to put us in quarantine!
I see the obst tomorrow, I'll see what he says.
I stayed away from a networking breakfast today because the local RMIT campus is closed because of swine flu and I know some RMIT staff usually turn up at these events. Crazy, huh?