The infection rate is about 2x+ per 7 days. In five weeks, there will probably be 5K to 10K case in the U.S., including almost every state, if not all (currently confirmed cases in 15 states).

"Cure found"? No, there will be viral treatment(s), which will be effective in some percentage of cases. And there will be a vaccine, which might be as much as 60%-70% effective. Unless this SARS-CoV-2 virus dies out from mutation or community immunity, it will become like the flu - infections and deaths every year.

But yes, restriction of movement is the best offense against mass spread of the virus until treatments, vaccine and hopefully community immunity can be achieved. Most of the spread to new locations currently traces back to travelers from Italy or Iran. As the new clusters in large cities expand, they will become new transmission centers.

I imagine the casino execs in L.V. are having conversations about the inevitability of the arrival of CoVID-19. And I imagine their conversations revolve around how to minimize their economic losses. Will they stay open as long as possible and then try to weather the fallout? Or will they close in the early stages of spread, like Macau was forced to do?

As a member of the senior population, if I had planned to attend this year's WSOP, I would be cancelling. It would be the right decision both for my own health and safety and for the moral obligation to do what I can to slow the spread.

nm just delayed apparently

Just saw a NV update on the news. Very surprising, still no cases here.

No Confirmed Cases
14 People Tested Negative
216 Monitored but didn't develop symptoms
208 Under supervision currently

Fake news.

The prevalence of this belief is amazing. It is a perfect example of how something ridiculous and nonsensical can gain credence and become a widespread belief merely by being repeated over and over by the foolish and the ignorant.

The tooth Fairy does not come and take your tooth from under your pillow and leave you money. Santa Claus does not live at the North Pole. Urine is not sterile.

This seems very familiar. I forget what it's called though. That thing where people keep repeating stories over and over again and keep believing that it's true even though everything in the stories violate everything else in how they understand the world to operate. But because it's been imprinted on them since they were children it becomes a part of their identity so they defend it to the death. It'll come to me at some point.

First presumptive positive at a Southern Nevada VA hospital. If this follows the pattern from everywhere else in the world this is someone who's been sick for 2+ weeks, in hospital with unexplained pneumonia for 1+ week, and they finally got approval to test after everything else came back negative.

https://thenevadaindependent.com/art...-health-system

what the hell kind of water are you drinking?

I guess my doctor lied to me.

Yeah man I'd get a new doctor. Probably one from this century.

I was at Gatwick Airport in earlier, one of the busiest airports in the world, and I have never seen it so quiet. Similar with the public transport in London too; not quiet but certainly less people around than usual.

How many of the WSOP players are from outside the US - 15/20%?

In all fairness, I did a quick google search and of course the first thing pops up and says it is....
However articles underneath say it’s not.

Also they mention for decades scientists thought it was so that says something for people to believe it.


Also Patches O’Houlihan says it is.

I won't go so far as to say your Doctor is a fool but I will say that your Doctor is exceedingly ignorant and I would advise you to find a Health Professional that is not years and years behind current medical knowledge and practice.

https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/gor...ither-rest-you

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3957746/

2019 Main Event List of Countries Participating

The 2019 WSOP Main Event drew 8,569 entries. Players came from 87 different countries to make up this year’s field. Below is a list of those countries in order of the most participants to least.

https://www.pokernews.com/tours/wsop...ips.294916.htm

Looks like about 29% of Main Event players from outside US.

And China was the 4th largest participant ex-US. And those numbers are only the Main Event. It's probably multiples more from each of the top countries listed in the Main Event counts that show up for other scheduled bracelet events, satty's, cash games, etc.

I wonder if the WSOP has publicly available statistics on the total number of unique registrants, by country, for the WSOP as a whole, not just Main Event.

I mean I'm all for science and all. But did we really need scientists to confirm that it's probably not the most hygienic practice to bathe in piss?

It also does no more for a Jellyfish sting than bathing the wound in water does, and it will not cure Athlete's Foot if you expel it upon your feet in the shower. Sad!

/derail

Of those poker players who succumb and die from covid19, it is same as a mouse dying from rat poison. Lungs become stiff and suffocate the patient, cardiac arrest finishes them off. Just hope you don't flop Aces and Eights on the bubble!

The problem is people don't understand the issues, so you are right, there is no appetite for banning large meetings in America, because people don't understand the benefits, but in countries where figures are higher large meetings have already been banned as people in those countries understand why it is necessary, and that will happen in America too, once people understand the dangers.

In the future they would look at people still choosing to travel around while there is no cure as crazy thinking that recklessly escalated the problem.

I guess the point is until it affects one one can't understand it. So China's shutting people approach seemed overload, but then when you see rates increasing 30% daily, you realise movement of people needs to stop until a cure is found. And if that means WSOP is cancelled for a year or two, in the long term view that is no big deal, whereas the downside of holding it this year is too large.

Another interesting stat is by state in the US. Now cases popping up in Cali and NV, in the next month if they continue to spread like in other places, I think WSOP will have to do something.

A combination of lower attendance from Foreign countries because of fear and Airlines shutting down lots of flights and the top 2 states in the US for attendance having a spread of the virus(pending).
Actually the top 4 states!


Top Ten States Represented in 2019 WSOP Main Event
Rank State Entries
1 California 1,057
2 Nevada 698
3 Florida 540
4 New York 478
5 Texas 442
6 New Jersey 240
7 Illinois 236
8 Massachusetts 194
9 Ohio 169
10 Pennsylvania 157

https://www.pokernews.com/news/2019/...hics-34775.htm

https://www.fox5vegas.com/news/local...faf13fedc.html

"The Southern Nevada Health District confirmed the first novel coronavirus case in Clark County Thursday morning.

SNHD said the Clark County resident tested presumptively positive for COVID-19."

Urine therapy:not dirty but certainly not conventional .

In any case the doctor is certainly not a fool .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urine_therapy

Urine therapy is just taking the piss.

Urine therapy
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"This article is part of a series on Alternative and pseudo‑medicine"

"the application of human urine for medicinal or cosmetic purposes, including drinking of one's own urine and massaging one's skin, or gums, with one's own urine"

"No scientific evidence exists to support any beneficial health claims of urine therapy"

FWIW, they seem to have changed their minds, apparently due to public outcry. (See a later tweet that says regional data will still be available daily). The government obviously doesn't want certain towns to be full of panic-stricken people buying too much bog roll, or setting fire to their local Chinese takeaways, but people have a right to know about the dangers in their backyards.
Interestingly, in Singapore, there is a popular virus-mapping app that provides the GPS location of infected cases right down to the specific streets they live on. I believe that dissemination of that kind of surveillance info might be illegal in Europe due to data protection and privacy laws.

(California)