[dp0622]

the event in Wuhan was cancelled...

Good move! Definitely a good move!

The thing is that if Asians are more susceptible, as “experts” are saying, then it could spread kinda fast there.

I hope it doesn’t.

And no I don’t understand the genetic reason why they are more predisposed even though I read the article twice :)

[Sans-Culotte]

“I want to make it clear that the Organizing Committee and the International Olympic Committee are not holding any discussions whatsoever about whether or not to hold the Tokyo Games,” Abe emphasized.

Yeah, right.

[discostu]

Probably not. Really 5 months from now this will either be a massive pandemic (almost certainly not) or burned out (like all the other panics). Olympics will be fine, or a whole lotta stuff more important than them will be canceled.

[null and void]

...and the band played on.

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

[VanShuyten]

You want to know what the 2020 Olympics will look like? Take a look at the stadium photos when ROK played a friendly soccer game in North Korea.

[themidnightskulker]

Not to sound all “WOO-WOO”, but Tom Clancy wrote about a bio attack at the Olympics.

[LibWhacker]

[GOPJ]

People who think this virus won’t effect the financial machinery of the world are delusional...

[sauropod]

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[chajin]

If necessary PRC could be kept from attending, but five months is an eternity in the life cycle of a virus.

[rfp1234]

Cyclists, swimmers, and runners won’t set any new records competing in facemasks and hazmat suits.