Apple Limiting Employee Travel to China Amid Coronavirus Outbreak, Working to Avoid Supply Shortages

[justperry]

In its retail stores, Apple is limiting hours, checking employees, and sanitizing its stores regularly. One store has also been shut down for the time being. Apple's retail sales have slowed due to virus concerns, but this is accounted for in Apple's guidance numbers for Q2 2020.

Duh...cleaning regularly is standard business, it won't help one bit if they clean more now that this virus is around.

 

[AustinIllini]

pweicks,
Let me introduce you to basic mathematics.
62,000/42,000,000 = .00147%
81/9000 = .009% (Almost 1%)
Should Cooronavirus spread like the flu in 2019 then that is approximately 420,000 dead for every 42 million.
If it spread like the Spanish Flu of 1918 that one percent would be approximately 25.4 million dead.

Numbers, it is all relative anyway right?

Hard to tell at this point, but it doesn't appear to be as infectious as Spanish Flu or today's influenza.

Basic math or not, we know flu is terrifyingly dangerous
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Duh...cleaning regularly is standard business, it won't help one bit if they clean more now that this virus is around.

You don't know that.

 

[DiamonDecoden]

pweicks,
Let me introduce you to basic mathematics.
62,000/42,000,000 = .00147%
81/9000 = .009% (Almost 1%)
Should Cooronavirus spread like the flu in 2019 then that is approximately 420,000 dead for every 42 million.
If it spread like the Spanish Flu of 1918 that one percent would be approximately 25.4 million dead.

Numbers, it is all relative anyway right?

Isn't .147% not .00147%

 

[justperry]

You don't know that.

They need to clean the place second to second for it to be effective.
Example, one of the tables with iPhones has been cleaned seconds ago, an infected person touches the table, seconds later someone touches the same spot and then touch his/her lips... not effective.

That is, if the bug survives on that table for extended periods of time, if not, then yes, you are correct.

 

[Tomhauber]

Just remember...

The flu infected 42 million and killed 62,000 in 2019. The coronavirus has infected 9000 and killed 81 people...

Media: CORONAVIRUSSSSSS!!!!!!!

Flu: 62K/42Million = 0.1476%
Corona: 133/6165 = 2.1573% (reported as of 1pm PST)

I would say the Corona virus has a more significant impact, especially if that mortality rates stays that way with more widespread reporting.

 

[keifer123]

I think it receives a lot of attention because coronavirus is a virus that came from animals so it is fairly new to a lot of people. I just think people never learn from old mistakes. SARS in 2003 scared a lot of people and that should have been a lesson to everyone but 17 years later...here we are again.

Just remember...

The flu infected 42 million and killed 62,000 in 2019. The coronavirus has infected 9000 and killed 81 people...

Media: CORONAVIRUSSSSSS!!!!!!!