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NFT: Coronavirus update: MWC CANCELED!

NoPeanutz : 2/12/2020 2:05 pm
Sorry we won't have the opportunity to connect with all the BBIers headed to Barcelona this year.
MWC2020 Canceled - ( New Window )
Wow  
Ben in Tampa : 2/12/2020 2:17 pm : link
I know a lot of vendors were dropping out.. MWC isn't some winky dink trade show.
A lot of companies have canceled trips into or out of Asia  
jcn56 : 2/12/2020 2:22 pm : link
for at least a month. I can imagine there may have been some hesitation to sync up in Barcelona with people from that region, no matter how remote the chance of infection may be.
The Formula 1 Chinese Grand Prix  
Trainmaster : 2/12/2020 2:51 pm : link
was postponed too. Had been scheduled for 4/19/20

Not that I expect much to come of it, but Anonymous is threatening  
jcn56 : 2/12/2020 3:03 pm : link
a large scale cyberattack against the Chinese government tomorrow in response to the censorship and forced quarantines.

That seems like a nifty idea, take a country undergoing a massive crisis, and inject a cyberattack. That should help the situation.
I just heard on WABC radio..  
BillKo : 2/12/2020 3:06 pm : link
..that the WHO (World Health Organization) says this could spread - if not contained - to 60% of the populated world.
They think it has started to  
BigBlueDownTheShore : 2/12/2020 3:12 pm : link
Be contagious via the water supply as a few people have gotten it apparently through the piping in their walls.
Coronavirus spread through bathroom pipes. - ( New Window )
RE: They think it has started to  
Canton : 2/12/2020 4:06 pm : link
In comment 14809874 BigBlueDownTheShore said:
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Be contagious via the water supply as a few people have gotten it apparently through the piping in their walls. Coronavirus spread through bathroom pipes. - ( New Window )


If this virus can be transmitted , by other means other than human contact, this can turn into a global shit show. Even more do, if this thing mutates over time .
even more so*  
Canton : 2/12/2020 4:10 pm : link
.
RE: They think it has started to  
LakeGeorgeGiant : 2/12/2020 4:14 pm : link
In comment 14809874 BigBlueDownTheShore said:
Quote:
Be contagious via the water supply as a few people have gotten it apparently through the piping in their walls. Coronavirus spread through bathroom pipes. - ( New Window )


Jumping to conclusions there. It's more likely an elevator button.
RE: RE: They think it has started to  
Bill L : 2/12/2020 4:17 pm : link
In comment 14809901 Canton said:
Quote:
In comment 14809874 BigBlueDownTheShore said:


Quote:


Be contagious via the water supply as a few people have gotten it apparently through the piping in their walls. Coronavirus spread through bathroom pipes. - ( New Window )



If this virus can be transmitted , by other means other than human contact, this can turn into a global shit show. Even more do, if this thing mutates over time .


"Shit show" is probably more literal than you meant if this were to be a (com)mode of transmission.
I think they've determined that this virus is a lot more airborne  
jcn56 : 2/12/2020 4:27 pm : link
than originally believed. It seems that the case in Hong Kong was the result of it traveling via air ducts between apartments several floors apart, and on the cruise ship transmission between passengers who hadn't had any contact with each other.
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