Engineer who attended cybersecurity event contracts coronavirus

Re:Engineer who attended cybersecurity event contracts coron... by gravelc on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @05:46PM (#22540096)

Unbelievable these events are going ahead. A number of travelers returning to Australia from the USA have contracted COVID19, indicating the disease is more widespread than admitted by the government.

The Formula 1 Grand Prix is going ahead in Australia this weekend, which is equally poor.

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Re:Engineer who attended cybersecurity event contracts coron... by dathinab on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @06:00PM (#22540253)

I always thought the majority of income for F1 is unrelated to the live visitors. and as such it should be fine to do it just without live publicum. ...

I wonder if I'm wrong about it or they are just too irresponsible to cancel the parts involving crowdes?

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Re:Engineer who attended cybersecurity event contracts coron... by deerIRL on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @06:36PM (#22540615)

Irresponsible mostly. Bahrain has already said it plans to hold their Grand Prix in an empty grandstand.

I do think the host tracks would prefer to have a full Grand Stand, due to ticket sales, but I'm not sure how much it would affect F1 as a whole.

Sadly, there seems to be a sense of invincibility almost towards the virus in Western Countries until all of a sudden it arrives and you are dealing with hundreds or thousands of cases.

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