Jeff Bezos has returned to day-to-day management of Amazon

Re:Jeff Bezos has returned to day-to-day management of Amazon by Retric on Thursday April 23, 2020 @07:12PM (#22962696)

This is still far smaller than other pandemics in the last 100 years. The 1957 "Asian flu" had around 1–4 million dead. AIDS is sitting around 770,000 dead per year and the total is vastly higher etc.

What makes things different about COVID-19 is how people are responding to it in the hope of saving vast numbers of lives.

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Re:Jeff Bezos has returned to day-to-day management of Amazon by jlj on Thursday April 23, 2020 @07:46PM (#22962987)

> This is still far smaller than other pandemics in the last 100 years. > What makes things different..

We are still in the early days of this pandemic. The history of COVID-19 is still being written. No one knows how long we're in for or what the final death count will be.

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Re:Jeff Bezos has returned to day-to-day management of Amazon by vmception on Thursday April 23, 2020 @09:05PM (#22963531)

After the meat shortage starts we'll all come out of this with a BMI of 20. It won't be because those remaining all lost weight.

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Re:Jeff Bezos has returned to day-to-day management of Amazon by james_s_tayler on Thursday April 23, 2020 @09:36PM (#22963741)

Given R0 is around 4 and mortality rate is some single digit percentage, left unchecked this pandemic is bigger than those.

The only recourse we have to reduce R is stay the hell away from each other. No business really plans on that.

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Re:Jeff Bezos has returned to day-to-day management of Amazon by lallysingh on Thursday April 23, 2020 @10:24PM (#22963996)

How well did Internet stores deliver during them?

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Re:Jeff Bezos has returned to day-to-day management of Amazon by pythonaut_16 on Friday April 24, 2020 @10:25AM (#22968235)

AIDS isn't really a relevant comparison to COVID-19

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