Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus not contained

Re:Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus... by shadowprofile77 on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @02:42AM (#22421157)

Completely speculating here but this specific case sounds like a bad luck situation in which the family in question had an extreme genetic susceptibility to suffering the virus at its worst. As other comments have pointed out (and the data so far seems to back) the vast majority 81%+ of cases are fairly mild or even asymptomatic and the elderly are those who suffer the higher 2%+ mortality rates (based on what I've read, the mortality rate adjusted for younger age groups is roughly 0.2% or less.)

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Re:Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus... by mft_ on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @06:14AM (#22422047)

Except, of course, in the example given, the two parents won't share any genetic material (coming from different families originally) and neither will the son and his wife.

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Re:Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus... by baxtr on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @07:58AM (#22422466)

Of course, only if the two parents really are coming from different families originally...

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Re:Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus... by baq on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @03:05AM (#22421280)

if you give a million monkeys a typewriter and wait a million years, you're bound to get all works of Shakespeare by chance alone. yes, bad luck, but the fact it happened illustrates the scale.

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Re:Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus... by LandR on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @04:47AM (#22421694)

No, I think this only applies to an infinite amount of monkeys or you wait an infinitely long time.

Infinite != million years.

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Re:Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus... by iso1210 on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @04:56AM (#22421726)

> if you give a million monkeys a typewriter and wait a million years

You'll have faeces and dead monkeys everywhere.

Lets assume you have a million monkeys pressing 10 keys per second for 1 million years.

You'd get somewhere in the region of 10^21 letters, or

Lets ignore punctuation, numbers, capitals etc, and assume there's just a choice of 26 letters

You'd be insanely lucky to find "all the world's a stage" somewhere in there.

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Re:Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus... by knowmylimits on Thursday February 27, 2020 @08:43AM (#22433122)

He's just doing his take on probability not literally. That's like if I asked you: How many second are in a year?

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