South by Southwest festival cancelled over Coronavirus (COVID-19)

[Canada]

South by Southwest festival cancelled over Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Officials in Austin, Texas, have cancelled the South by Southwest arts and technology festival.

Mayor Steve Adler said Friday he'd declared a "local disaster" in the city as a precaution because of the threat of the coronavirus, effectively cancelling the annual event, which was due to start March 13.

[kylor]

Better safe than sorry, I suppose.

[Cremildo]

Finally! I've learned what the heck SXSW means.

[Canada]

Originally Posted by Cremildo

Finally! I've learned what the heck SXSW means.

To bad we don't have different ways of reacting like Facebook because I was LMAO at that because I had no idea what SXSW meant either, but then again I didn't care.

[Fenway55]

Here's my (no doubt unpopular) opinion:

People need to be safe. Wash your hands. Don't touch your face. Of course, that is the way we all should have been living beforehand. The media loves whipping up a frenzy and frightening the public because that drives up their own ratings. A bad flu season will hit millions of Americans - and can kill 60,000 - and no gives a crap. No one cancels events when a community get a flu outbreak.

If Covid-19 was just another strain of the flu, no one would care and no one would be covering it and we would all be living our lives as normal.

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by Fenway55

Here's my (no doubt unpopular) opinion:

People need to be safe. Wash your hands. Don't touch your face. Of course, that is the way we all should have been living beforehand. The media loves whipping up a frenzy and frightening the public because that drives up their own ratings. A bad flu season will hit millions of Americans - and can kill 60,000 - and no gives a crap. No one cancels events when a community get a flu outbreak.

If Covid-19 was just another strain of the flu, no one would care and no one would be covering it and we would all be living our lives as normal.

https://www.latimes.com/science/stor...virus-covid-19

[Arawn]

There's approximately a zero point zero percent chance that I'm gonna stop touching my face. Just not realistically on the table.

[Chaotic]

You can touch your face, just have to wash your hands especially when and after going out.

[acroyear2]

Keeping an eye on Fantastic Fest, a movie festival also occurring in Austin later this year. As long as I don't touch my eye.

[Britbuffguy]

Originally Posted by Fenway55

Here's my (no doubt unpopular) opinion:

People need to be safe. Wash your hands. Don't touch your face. Of course, that is the way we all should have been living beforehand. The media loves whipping up a frenzy and frightening the public because that drives up their own ratings. A bad flu season will hit millions of Americans - and can kill 60,000 - and no gives a crap. No one cancels events when a community get a flu outbreak.

If Covid-19 was just another strain of the flu, no one would care and no one would be covering it and we would all be living our lives as normal.

Basic flu kills 2 in 100 cases, this kills more like 10 in 100 cases. That IS news, doesn't matter if you care or not.
I mean, in America alone, it's been 19 deaths in the last 6 days. Maybe those lives mean nothing to you, but it is 19 people that have died from it.

[Fenway55]

Originally Posted by Britbuffguy

Basic flu kills 2 in 100 cases, this kills more like 10 in 100 cases.

I don't mind different opinions, my friend, but your stats are not even remotely accurate. The flu kills roughly 1 in 1,000 on a bad year, often lower. The current estimates for Coronavirus are that it kills roughly 2.3% to 3.4%, but even that is widely expected to decrease and not expected to be the number from a first world nation.

Furthermore, I am still of the opinion that raw numbers matter more. Suppose a Coronavirus patient is 30 times more likely to die than a flu patient, but you are 1,000 times more likely to get the flu than Coronavirus. Which one should you be more afraid of?

[MifuneFan]

Coronavirus appears to be way more contagious than the flu, so..

[Shingster]

Originally Posted by Fenway55

If Covid-19 was just another strain of the flu, no one would care and no one would be covering it and we would all be living our lives as normal.

If Covid-19 was just another strain of the flu it wouldn't have infected so many people so quickly across six continents of the globe. Why don't you go tell someone from Northern Italy that this is no worse than the flu.

[Fenway55]

Originally Posted by Shingster

If Covid-19 was just another strain of the flu it wouldn't have infected so many people so quickly across six continents of the globe. Why don't you go tell someone from Northern Italy that this is no worse than the flu.

OK, right after you tell the 120,000 Americans who died of the flu over the past 2.5 years that they're sure lucky they didn't get COVID-19.

[Shingster]

Errr, I'm not downplaying the seriousness of the flu in any capacity, so your smart alec comeback is nothing more than empty bluster. The fact remains that COVID-19 is quite blatantly more lethal than the flu and it appears to be more contagious as well.

[Dubstar]

Originally Posted by Cremildo

Finally! I've learned what the heck SXSW means.

(face palm)

[Pondosinatra]

Containment is a lost cause anyway.

Out of 100 posters on here, 60-70% will get infected. 25% will end up in intensive care. 3% will die - that number rising if you're older than 50 and not in perfect health.

And if you manage to survive the next few months, this will all happen again come next winter.

And beyond that, even if you never get sick, you're more than likely to lose your job as we end up with a global recession lasting decades.

[Pondosinatra]

Originally Posted by Fenway55

I don't mind different opinions, my friend, but your stats are not even remotely accurate. The flu kills roughly 1 in 1,000 on a bad year, often lower. The current estimates for Coronavirus are that it kills roughly 2.3% to 3.4%, but even that is widely expected to decrease and not expected to be the number from a first world nation.

Furthermore, I am still of the opinion that raw numbers matter more. Suppose a Coronavirus patient is 30 times more likely to die than a flu patient, but you are 1,000 times more likely to get the flu than Coronavirus. Which one should you be more afraid of?

Enough already. Good Christ....if I had a dollar for every simpleton that said 'but, but, the flu is worse'...

[kylor]

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[Damon1281]

Originally Posted by Pondosinatra

Enough already. Good Christ....if I had a dollar for every simpleton that said 'but, but, the flu is worse'...

I know, right? Fact of the matter, most grown-ups have survived multiple times from the flu so not much of a scare factor there despite the number of deaths. Flu deaths have been mostly very young or very old.