Coronavirus information and extenuating circumstances policy

Re:Coronavirus information and extenuating circumstances policy by jtdev on Sunday March 01, 2020 @12:02PM (#22457741)

Shocking to see that sunk cost fallacy and groupthink are driving decision making rather than sound science and medicine.

Here’s a rather ironic example: HIMSS 2020, a conference of ~45000 attendees from 90+ countries is still scheduled to go forward at Orange County Convention Center March 9-13 - even as major participants withdraw from the event.

I was actually blocked by HIMSS PR folks on Twitter for inquiring about their preparedness plan... which is inadequate to say the least. To top it off, HHS Secretary Alex Azar is a keynote speaker, so now it’s also a huge political can of worms.

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Re:Coronavirus information and extenuating circumstances policy by ghaff on Sunday March 01, 2020 @12:29PM (#22457905)

What sorts of preparations would you consider adequate--other than not holding the event? While some things are being cancelled or postponed, the fact is that there are events and travel still happening more or less as usual around most of the world. People are still taking public transit. People are still going into offices. Sporting events are going on. I honestly have trouble distinguishing most of the events that have been cancelled (outside of Asia) from those that are going on.

For example, there was just a ~45,000 person security conference held in SF last week.

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Re:Coronavirus information and extenuating circumstances policy by pbourke on Sunday March 01, 2020 @12:39PM (#22457959)

It’s simple: large, non-essential public gatherings need to be cancelled. Especially if they involve substantial travel from attendees.

It’s fiddling while Rome has caught fire to do anything else.

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Re:Coronavirus information and extenuating circumstances policy by PeterisP on Sunday March 01, 2020 @02:00PM (#22458475)

A major physics conference (APS March meeting 2-6 Mar in Denver) has been cancelled with very short (36 hours?) notice - https://twitter.com/APSphysics/status/1233950396093214720 , https://march.aps.org/

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Re:Coronavirus information and extenuating circumstances policy by newhere2020 on Sunday March 01, 2020 @02:12PM (#22458562)

Can you please share which major participants have withdrawn from the event? Where might I be able to look that up? Thanks.

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Re:Coronavirus information and extenuating circumstances policy by jtdev on Sunday March 01, 2020 @02:41PM (#22458772)

Cisco, Intel, Salesforce, and Amazon - reports of more to announce tomorrow.

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