Calls to Cancel SXSW Intensify as Facebook, Twitter Pull Out, 30K Sign Petition

Re:Calls to Cancel SXSW Intensify as Facebook, Twitter Pull ... by johntash on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @11:36AM (#22476012)

> ... it seems I managed to avoid both.

Unfortunately I don't think you'll know for sure if you got sick for at least a few more days. For COVID-19, I think there is a 5-7 day period where you can show no symptoms (but still pass it on to other people.) And even for the regular cold/flu, it can take a couple days for symptoms to show up.

I agree with everything else you said though; wash your hands often, use hand sanitizer, bring lysol/clorox wipes with you and wipe down any shared surfaces if possible.

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Re:Calls to Cancel SXSW Intensify as Facebook, Twitter Pull ... by katbyte on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @11:44AM (#22476110)

It can actually be upto three weeks before symptoms show all the while being infectious.

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Re:Calls to Cancel SXSW Intensify as Facebook, Twitter Pull ... by Thriptic on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @12:28PM (#22476615)

If it's true that there is a three week latency period while you can still be infectious then we are screwed. There's basically nothing you can do because quarantine becomes impossible short of forcibly quarantining everyone.

If even Xi Jinping doesn't have the political cover to pull it off, the US political leadership surely won't.

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Re:Calls to Cancel SXSW Intensify as Facebook, Twitter Pull ... by Izkata on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @01:44PM (#22477485)

The absolute highest outlier (like, only one case so far) seems to be 27 days, with the vast majority being under 5 days.

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