4 hours ago, TasteTheRainbow said:I work in public healthcare. Epidemiologists here strongly suspect that nowhere is free of it anymore.
If you have a consistent cough stay home.
I wonder, how many die hard gamers, who DO have a consistent cough, will take that advice?!
1 minute ago, LTuser said:I wonder, how many die hard gamers, who DO have a consistent cough, will take that advice?!
Not many. Con crud’s various causes will probably keep getting the blame for a month. It’ll even be mostly true.
On 3/5/2020 at 4:35 PM, CaptainJaguarShark said:While I don't know of any gaming/comic/anime/etc conventions being cancelled for covid 19 yet, there have been a number of tech conferences cancelled. Facebook and Google have both cancelled big events for this year. Of course, these events might have a larger expectation of international travelers at those conferences than our typical hobby conferences.
Looking up whether any hobby events have been cancelled so far, I did notice that a school district near Seattle has chosen to close for two weeks and move students to online learning during that period. I have to admit that seems excessive.
Whether those tech conferences should have been cancelled is a little hard to judge, and I imagine they'd rather not look back in hindsight and then say they should have closed, rather than seeing it would have been okay to stay open.
The infected mortality rate of covid 19 so far has been higher than the usual yearly mortality rate of flu, at about 3.4% of those infected. Influenza is usually less than 1% a year of those infected.
Emerald City Comic Con announced today that they're postponing until the Summer (no dates set yet).
While it isn't a gaming/comic/anime/etc convention, SXSW announced today that they've canceled for this year.
GDC (Game Developers Conference) was also cancelled this year.
Bear in mind that just because you, personally, aren't necessarily a high-risk person for death, a) it's still like a nasty flu, and b) you could transmit it to people who are at high-risk.