Are you guys looking at those cloud graphix on the weather channel now? I know I am.

How do you know the exact number of the people in Italy who contracted the virus?

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer...505969%2C0&z=1

Even with red text, your pony's a couple days behind.

Unless I misunderstood, I don't think that answers his real question.

I'm Czech, here domestic large events are working as usual
The only event the government has interfered with was Biathlon race that had a lot of international spectators, a lot of them from France Italy.

It wouldn't surprise me if casinos did what Kings does
And Wsop certainly is a threat as you will have a lot of people travelling
And I don't think it's easy to enforce a bam just on e.g. People from Washington state?

One can't tell with absolute precision, as the official figures are those who have been diagnosed with the virus, but there will be lots of people with it who haven't been diagnosed with it, either because they haven't yet shown symptoms, or had it and recovered, but didn't have their symptoms diagnosed as the virus. But for it to have a 05% - 1% mortality rate there would have to be enormous numbers of undiagnosed virus that people recovered from, and that isn't the case.

We actually have no idea if that's the case or not, but I can understand why you would think it quite unlikely. It certainly would require a lot of undiagnosed people - the likelihood of that would really depend on how they're doing with testing. A rate of 1% or less there seems like a stretch right now.

Of course that's just one country. While Albert hasn't exactly been stellar in this thread, it's entirely possible the 0.5-1.0% figure will be correct in the end - if not on average across the world, possibly in many countries. From everything I've read, it's just too early to know what the CFR truly is, but it seems likely to be substantially lower than the 3.4% number that WHO released this week. As you mentioned, there's going to be a huge number of people that haven't been diagnosed. I don't think it's a coincidence that in the US, where their testing is abysmally slow so far, the CFR is something like 7%, whereas in South Korea where they have already tested over 100,000 people, it's well under 1% (0.6% last I heard).

I found this article very interesting:

https://www.vox.com/2020/3/5/2116597...rate-explained

Interesting statement from a quarantined nurse who contracted the virus.

https://twitter.com/mattdpearce/stat...994625/photo/1

One can only hope that's some kind of big misunderstanding and not a reflection of actual policy.

Korea: Drive-through testing

USA: Won't test nurses caring for confirmed infected patients, exhibiting symptoms

The stuff I'm seeing on Twitter is pretty ridiculous...
People calling to see where they can be tested, on the phone for hours and hours with no answers. Being told nowhere has testing equipment.

And then just the random 500 people I happen to follow I'm seeing tons of stuff that make it seem like the USA is super super chill about it.

I think people are forgetting this virus mainly affects older people and those with autoimmune and preexisting respiratory conditions. If you are some 28 year old douche I think you can still play in the WSOP without worrying about dying from the Coronavirus.

If you are some 28 year old douche should you worry about catching Coronavirus and passing it to older people and those with autoimmune and preexisting respiratory conditions, so that they die?

Bobo and Crane, thanks for the links. It's always nice to be able to get good stuff in amongst all the noise.

If it gets that bad you won't have a choice to go to the WSOP. It will be cancelled. I work in a nursing home and all essential employees will have to report to work and wear masks. The world of healthcare and the world in general will not stop because of a virus except for nonessential group gatherings (IE the WSOP). Every employee here has to get a flu shot unless they have a medical or religious excuse and if they don't get their flu shot they have to wear a mask.

I have an idea... everyone stock up on food/water/medicine and barricade themselves in their homes for 30 days. Only essential emergency workers etc.. are allowed in the public and must wear full body decontamination suits. This should eradicate the common cold. The flu would probably live on (because animals can transfer it), but it would be at an immensely smaller level.

I went to Smith's yesterday (Las Vegas) and everyone had six cases of water in their cart. There are no masks or hand sanitizers available, and the manager told me the warehouse is empty as well. One lady bought ten containers of rubbing alcohol (I guess she was going to make her own sanitizer), and the hydrogen peroxide shelf was almost bare.

I said the same thing to my friends and they all said it wouldn’t work.
I wish this could happen though. If the entire world could just press the pause button, let it die out. And resume.

It won't work because there are thousands of CCRCs and hospitals in this country that depend on doctors, nurses, food service and facilities workers. A lot of the people at the nursing facility I work at live paycheck to paycheck and can't afford to stay home and shelter in place. Also they face termination for calling out sick which also gives them an incentive to show up. Basically it creates a perfect storm for disease to spread.

people are way too dumb with money to stay home 30 days, so many people live paycheck to paycheck

To protect the wider community, perhaps the Main Event could be played on a cruise ship off the coast of California.

Yeah, that’s the issue. Not shutting down most of the economy for 30 days. This thread is way more toxic than Coronavirus.