I totally agree with you Zoe, and I hope your family listen to you. This is exactly why I would advise anyone to take the cautious path. There is info on the health risks to people in these situations, info that is credible.
It is important to share information from all sources, this provides a balanced view. It is important to discuss and question this information as well as sharing it, particularly when there is so much self interested propaganda put out by all sides of this event.
I tend to go with what the energy of the information, and the people giving that information, tells me. My own judgement may be wrong, what my five senses tell me could be wrong, but the energy never is.