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Coronavirus has caused the postponement of the WSOP 2020! (Coronavirus quarantine thread)

View Poll Results: Will the Corona Virus will alter their plans to attend WSOP this Summer (if it's not canceled)

Never planned on attending.

177 32.48%

Definitely wont attend.

112 20.55%

Probably wont attend.

93 17.06%

Probably will attend.

71 13.03%

Definitely will attend.

92 16.88%

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02-22-2020 , 05:06 PM

#151

Jay Why

adept

Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 1,053

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xenoblade

the death rate is 2% boys, being infected is far from a death sentence

The woman who died with four family members would disagree, if she could.

02-22-2020 , 05:46 PM

#152

Wilbury Twist

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 6,410

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mr Spyutastic

2% added onto everything else that is already set to kill you. I'd prefer not to get the extra 2% life debuff.

In the poker game of life, COVID-19 is the rake.

02-22-2020 , 07:48 PM

#153

PeteBlow

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 15,036

My immune system is so bad, I’d probably catch it playing an online event.

02-23-2020 , 12:26 AM

#154

snowie963

banned

Join Date: Sep 2019 Posts: 1,484

Quote:

Originally Posted by PeteBlow

My immune system is so bad, I’d probably catch it playing an online event.

Just don't play in an airport or public space with lots of Chinese people, like a Chinese market, or a wuhan corona virus testing centre.

02-23-2020 , 03:19 AM

#155

ronl2k

centurion

Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 137

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xenoblade

the death rate is 2% boys, being infected is far from a death sentence

But influenza kills only 0.14% of infected patients, and it has a vaccine. And the COVID-19 fatality rate is far higher for seniors.

02-23-2020 , 03:48 AM

#156

R*R

I wish I was Einstein

Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 12,717

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xenoblade

the death rate is 2% boys, being infected is far from a death sentence

You don't want to be hitting that one outer.

02-23-2020 , 03:50 AM

#157

R*R

I wish I was Einstein

Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 12,717

Quote:

Originally Posted by Registered 2018

There is also a worrisome CoronaVirus outbreak in Iran which cannot be traced to China.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...-worrisome-who

Meanwhile, there are now 77,000 cases worldwide, a 77 fold increase since this thread started.

The WSOP needs to have 9 of these at every table:

More importantly, this should be required for everyone to be wearing at all times:

Yeah but then how's Hellmuth going to make those amazing reads?

02-23-2020 , 07:54 AM

#158

rakemeplz

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 11,990

Conspiracy theory: this thread is actually an evil plot to lower Phil Hellmuth's ROI from his greatest hater.

02-23-2020 , 10:35 AM

#159

JackBurton

grinder

Join Date: Jul 2010 Posts: 597

I've seen some numbers that it's close to 3%.

CES in Las Vegas in the beginning of the year went on without any major issues, and it must had quite a few people from asian tech companies.

But MWC (Mobile conference) in Barcelona was cancelled this late february.

02-23-2020 , 01:55 PM

#160

PenelopeCruz

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 9,314

2-3% is insanely high when the risk is dying. Also apparently 20% of cases end up being "serious" meaning you are hospitalized and your life is at risk. So you have a 1/5 chance of being bed ridden fighting for your life. Pretty damn serious

02-23-2020 , 02:33 PM

#161

AngusThermopyle

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 14,929

Quote:

Originally Posted by JackBurton

CES in Las Vegas in the beginning of the year went on without any major issues, and it must had quite a few people from asian tech companies.

CES was Jan 7, 2020 – Jan 10, 2020 while

Quote:

According to information conveyed to WHO by Chinese authorities on 11 and 12 January, 41 cases with novel coronavirus infection have been preliminarily diagnosed in Wuhan City. Of the 41 cases reported, seven are severely ill. This is when the one death, mentioned above, was reported, in a patient with other underlying health conditions.

02-23-2020 , 02:47 PM

#162

WateryBoil

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Jul 2014 Posts: 5,735

those masks do basically nothing fwiw.

02-23-2020 , 03:00 PM

#163

MikeDeMichele

enthusiast

Join Date: Sep 2018 Posts: 62

Luckily, it seems that the coronavirus is starting to become well contained and the growth rate is slowing down substantially. Early on it seemed rational to be worried that this could become a worldwide pandemic. But if this slowdown stays on course then by the summer this virus might become a lot less threatening than we thought.

Here's a graph of the amount of coronavirus/CoVid-19 cases worldwide. The bell curve was spiking rapidly but it's beginning to flatline. Hopefully the spreading continues to decline. Good health to us all.

image source: worldometers

02-23-2020 , 03:18 PM

#164

R*R

I wish I was Einstein

Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 12,717

Tell that to Italy.

02-23-2020 , 03:48 PM

#165

MikeDeMichele

enthusiast

Join Date: Sep 2018 Posts: 62

Quote:

Originally Posted by R*R

Tell that to Italy.

Ya looking at the data, it seems that Italy just doubled the number of reported cases since yesterday adding 78 new cases up to 157 total. Hopefully they can keep it under control but there's a chance it could get really bad there.

02-23-2020 , 05:11 PM

#166

nutella virus

banned

Join Date: Mar 2016 Posts: 3,627

They're cancelling soccer games there, and they don't take that lightly

02-24-2020 , 10:57 AM

#167

locopollo

centurion

Join Date: Jan 2018 Posts: 112

Quote:

Originally Posted by nutella virus

They're cancelling soccer games there, and they don't take that lightly

you mean football... calcio... only americans play soccer

02-24-2020 , 11:05 AM

#168

12bigworm81

adept

Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 1,040

Compare the chance of being infected to your chance of winning an event. Not booking a cruise right now, and will enjoy the 4th of July away from Vegas.

02-24-2020 , 11:39 AM

#169

Mr Spyutastic

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 15,531

Quote:

Originally Posted by PenelopeCruz

Plus the fact it could be even higher given the sample size.

But even at 2% it's pretty funny that people think this is like not a high number. And yeah 20% in ICU regardless doesn't seem like it's a great experience either way.

All these people who were treating this like it's some kind of bad cold and keep saying it's not a big deal is just funny.

02-24-2020 , 11:45 AM

#170

Registered 2018

banned

Join Date: Jan 2018 Posts: 958

Time for the WSOP to consider doubling online gold bracelet events. Right now the events are mostly on Sundays. They should add an equal number of events on Wednesdays.

Reminder: