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Re:Facebook cancels in-person portion of F8 due to Coronavirus by Mathnerd314 on Thursday February 27, 2020 @01:39PM (#22436272)
I think it's a matter of scale. Since F8 is an international conference there's more of a risk, and they have to make the decision sooner so people can get refunds on their plane flights and hotel rooms.

OTOH a birthday party is unlikely to increase the risk much compared to work/school. In a few months that calculation might look very different though, e.g. Japan closed all its schools. But the US is more spread out so a lot of regions will be protected by their isolation.

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Re:Facebook cancels in-person portion of F8 due to Coronavirus by ghaff on Thursday February 27, 2020 @01:50PM (#22436422)
It's pretty much a case by case basis with events. RSA happened although some companies pulled out. I'm attending a smaller (but still fairly large) US event next week. It's still on but they're asking people to certify they aren't sick and haven't been to China in the last couple of weeks. (And some other precautions like a no handshaking protocol.)

This is the first one I've seen cancel that far out. (Well, I know another but I think there were other factors at play there as well.)

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Re:Facebook cancels in-person portion of F8 due to Coronavirus by wkey on Thursday February 27, 2020 @02:54PM (#22437106)
Why are there so many acronyms like AFAIK or OTOH? What do people do with all the free time they save from abbreviating as such? :P
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