Lol wtf? Please don't tell me that guy has a lot of power at WHO. But even if it wouldn't surprise me. Look at the controversies https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worl...h_Organization

I don't think about a big consiracy going on here (could be, but I doubt, like you said its hard to belive..)
I think there is a big information overload about COVID19.
No one can tell you the truth but everybody is sure the informations are all right and true, which we get...I doubt this.
All information about the virus are some kind of misleading...
Every expert, specialist and scientist telling you something and you have to belive or not..but you just don't know the facts.

He was an assistant director general and led a WHO investigation of the virus response in Wuhan, from which some of the overwhelmingly positive reporting has stemmed in the media in recent weeks.

He has been swiftly removed from the face of the organisation.

anyone has a link to the site where i can see all cases around the world updated regularly? it was posted in here some days ago

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

Here is one: https://ncov2019.live/

I don't think I agree 100% with this, but this view has merit. Like everything, I think there is an in-between level of reaction which would be more ideal. I believe that people (be they in the government, or media, or an other concern that stands to benefit from some level of chaos) take advantage of the "novelty" of these sorts of things and people's fears. On 9/10 the vast majority of Americans were not concerned about terrorism. By 9/12, everyone was looking around and wondering who might be a terrorist.

I'm not sure we will see the same sort of fear once this passes because I believe there is a much larger number of people who feel our reaction has been overblown. But there will be some who go forward afraid. And those people will be taken advantage of by somebody.

Good idea, you go ahead and do that today.

Take your own advice and shut down your internet and then,

don't post here anymore.

Thanks

MartinKs approach > everyone freaking out, afraid to live life right now.

Agreed Rich, glad there's others that can see it too.

he's sort of right, I've been trying to avoid reading too much on the virus while also staying quarantined at home and it's not too bad

poker online is better than ever though so that helps

thank you
yeah onlinepoker is getting your mind fresh and keep you healthy from the virus

lol you must be very young

I've been playing since 2006 actually, I'm turning 34 this year

better than ever was an hyperbole I guess, it was better in 2006, it's pretty good now compared to the past year or so

I saw reports that it is at 5+ year highs, which is reflected directly in our support inbox/forum volume for HM2/3.

Today's U.S Covid-19 taskforce briefing (I assume ~5:30 pm EDT) is supposed to include details about the modeling which led to the decision to extend the CDC recommendations til 4/30. I assume they are not going to go into really great detail, but I sure hope they at least provide links/resources to where more detailed info can be found. Is it too much to hope some our intrepid "reporters" find that out and make it available to the public, instead of asking agenda-driven questions to make our leaders look good or bad?

It would seem you fail to recognize that the vast majority of the United States poker players live in jurisdictions where there is no legal access to online poker.

And while people have no compunction about traveling for a live series, the number of people willing to fly to a place only to hole up in a hotel room in order to play poker online is very likely only a small percentage of those who travel to play live.

Among other things, it allows them to gauge how apt people are to travel to Las Vegas. It allows them to plan for staffing in the event they are able to have guests. If things continue to preclude the ability to have tourists in the property, then they can cancel the reservations, just as other properties did during March.

Properties do not simply return to normal operations overnight. By looking three-plus weeks out, it allows the operations plan to be better mapped out.

I am sure there are MANY (myself included) who already have placeholder reservations in place for April and May. Having nominal amounts tied up on the 'first night' deposit is NOT an issue for many people...after all, it is less than a hundred bucks.

Perhaps more importantly, it allows people to have an idea when they are going to be able to return to some semblance of normalcy, something that is essential to maintaining sanity.

It also could simply be a glitch. Hotel reservation systems do not have a "Covid-19" setting programmed into them. That being said, even if done on purpose, I don't get why anyone cares. Hotels will resume operations when the local jurisdiction says they can. And the local jurisdiction will say they can when the state says they can. If anyone has a problem with the timeframe, they should take it up with the state.

March 31st report that country music legend Dolly Parton will join National Public Radio (NPR) once per week to read bedtime stories to children.

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronav...ine-every-week

While I understand where you're coming from on reporters' questions, they shouldn't even need to ask any to get that. It's just amazing what those "briefings" look like. I'm not sure if the American people have become so used to them that they think that's normal - it's not. A normal Covid briefing gives the important updates and pertinent facts, answers some relevant questions, and that's it.

When you spend 30+ minutes politicking when you should be briefing, agenda-driven questions will be the result.

We’re used to them and at the same time realize it’s not normal.

Yeah, I guess the two aren't mutually exclusive.

I'm not willing to predict a time frame. And the process of flying is obviously somewhat different now than it was on 9/10/01. But I too predict that mass gatherings will be back more or less like normal within some reasonable amount of time. I think one thing that may be different is people's willingness to be around others, whether it is at work or elsewhere, when they are sick. There will also be less tolerance for people being around others when they're sick. So whenever live poker is back, when someone sneezes into their hands instead of their elbow, there may be more hell to pay.

I was such an idiot on 9/11 that. after watching the news in the early morning, includng the crash into the second tower live, I actually went to MacCarran airport around noon to catch a flight.( As I was walking from the parking structure toward the terminal, folks coming out told me everything had been grounded.)

This is different however, the threat is not as direct, visible or quantifiable. Also,different gaming channels can operate with more "social distance comfort" than others ... that people may be able to come to Las Vegas hotels does not mean they will flock to play live poker.

I think live poker will be looked at askance, due to the particularly crowded nature of sitting in a poker room, jammed in with other players. To a real degree, if offered by casinos at all, live poker will be even less favored by the public than pre-corona.