Huawei Postpones Its Developers Conference Over Deadly Coronavirus (cnet.com) 29
Huawei has postponed its upcoming HDC.Cloud developer conference as Chinese authorities try to control the spread of the deadly coronavirus detected in the southeastern city of Wuhan. From a report: The controversial company's event was going to take place in Shenzhen -- which lies more than 700 miles south of Wuhan -- Feb. 11-12, but it's been rescheduled to March 27-28. "Based on the prevention and control of the pneumonia epidemic situation of the new coronavirus infection, we attach great importance to the health and safety of all the participants," Huawei said in its announcement. It also asked staff to avoid traveling to Wuhan and limit contact with animals, Reuters reported, and said it set up an outbreak prevention and control team in the city.
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I get this is new and scary but is it really any worse than the flu? All of the dead have been over 80 years old with pre-existing conditions. Or am I missing something?
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They need more time to steal stuff.
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Yup. The problem with asia is that the population density is so damn high that if an outbreak gets out of hand, you're soon easily talking about hundreds of millions of infected and millions dead.
Thing is, the last time we had a truly pandemic flu was a hundred or so years ago, when the Spanish flu killed an estimated 30-100 million people globally in 18 months, and did so in a time when travelli
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It appears the mortality rate is fairly low, though we're in the early days of the outbreak. Still, where there's any kind of outbreak, it's probably best not to have a whole bunch of people congregating together. It's why we tell people to stay home when they have the flu. Yes, most people will not die, but I've seen where my office has been decimated with nearly half of the staff at home with the flu. That hits productivity straight in the balls.
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In America, it's a matter of honour to go to work while sick. Most employees don't even get paid sick days because there is no point because the cultural norm is to "tough it out".
Speak for yourself. My American employer insists on the exact opposite because they're not that damn ignorant.
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Speak for yourself. My American employer insists on the exact opposite because they're not that damn ignorant.
Oh! I’ve heard of this. It’s called, umm, “competent management”, and sightings are exceedingly rare in the wild. Im afraid there are only a handful left and giving their breeding instincts, the future looks grim.
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Most employers do, at least on paper.
But you find people still come in sick - work to do and all that. Plus sometimes there's a feeling that you have to be a warm body at the desk that management notices, and those concerns generally override the "stay home" policy.
Very few places are enlightened enough to actually follow through and escort said employee off the premises and back home - even offerin
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Most employers do, at least on paper.
But you find people still come in sick - work to do and all that. Plus sometimes there's a feeling that you have to be a warm body at the desk that management notices, and those concerns generally override the "stay home" policy.
Health and safety are two of the top concerns in my company. They actually support the "stay home" policy. Perhaps it also has to do with the fact that I work with an older workforce as well. Either way, I feel very fortunate to work for an employer that offers both paid sick and PTO, and believes in the benefits of keeping sick people away from the office for the benefit of all.
I certainly know the management pressures you're talking about, because our company used to be that way.
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In America, it's a matter of honour to go to work while sick. Most employees don't even get paid sick days because there is no point because the cultural norm is to "tough it out".
Yeah, no. Every place I've ever worked, the official policy has been "If you're infected with something, DO NOT BRING IT HERE".
There's been a sea change in management thinking about disease transmission over the last couple of decades. Companies realize that if a sick worker comes in and makes his whole wing sick, then it costs them MORE money.
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Problem is the Chinese authorities have put affected areas on lockdown and made travel more difficult all over. It's going to affect anyone travelling at the very least.
There are probably liability issues too.
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It has killed people, that makes it deadly by definition.
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I bet you eat deadly lettuce in your salad and drive in deadly car. This media hysteria over yet another typical mers-like viral disease is silly
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They quarantined the entire city because it's no big deal at all, nothing to see here. Big woop. Geek is going to go to Wuhan tomorrow to prove it, right?
We must fall over ourselves to protect chinese honor at any cost!
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Even if it were "just the flu", imagine the health and economic impact of another flu-like illness going global.
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Actually, people are dying just waiting in line to see the doctor. They just aren't counted among "confirmed" since they didn't live long enough to see the doctor. I wouldn't be surprised if hundreds haven't died already.
The "confirmed" numbers being reported by the Chinese government vastly understate the seriousness of the situation.
There's a reason several cities with millions of people are in full quarantine lockdown -- you can't leave or get in. Cities larger than NYC.
source: my wife is in constant c
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As a guy with it landed in Seattle, I'm sure it won't take long to discover these missing sequences from the official documents, if they exist.
This sounds like a conspiracy theory sci-fi novel [youtu.be] where Bad Guy engineers a virus then drops it in his lab.
Virtual Realness (Score:1)
"How can we install spy viruses when everybody has biological viruses?"
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I can see why you'd want to hide your identity in posting the above, at some level you realize the "So far" for 2019-nCoV tells us little about how many people will get it in the future, it could become worse than the seasonal flu you're comparing it to.
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We don't know how the disease spreads, how to treat or contain it, if the fatality rate could be much higher in another population (race is actually a real thing, medically speaking).
We know what the flu is.
You are posting as AC because you are a shill for the Chinese government. And also so that you can downmod replies like mine.
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