E3 and NAB Events Canceled Due to Coronavirus

[MacRumors]

Two more major events in the United States have been called off today as the coronavirus continues to spread, with organizers for both E3 and NAB announcing cancelations.

E3, a major gaming convention that draws more than 65,000 people, was set to be held on June 9 to June 11 in Los Angeles, California. E3 event organizers this morning said that canceling was the "best way to proceed" amid "increased and overwhelming concerns about COVID-19."

https://twitter.com/x/status/1237769050123534336

NAB is an annual trade show produced by the National Association of Broadcasters, and it typically draws somewhere around 100,000 people. This year's event was set to take place at the Las Vegas Convention Center from April 18 to April 22.

NAB event organizers have decided not to hold the event in the "interest of addressing the health and safety concerns" of stakeholders and in consultation with partners throughout the media and entertainment industry. Alternatives are being explored to provide the "best possible experience" for the community.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1237801294246694912

The cancelations of E3 and NAB come as the World Health Organization has officially declared the COVID-19 outbreak a global pandemic due to its rapid spread across the world.

Apple still has not provided word about its upcoming Worldwide Developers Conference, which is normally held in San Jose, California, in June, but it's looking increasingly likely that the event will be canceled or held in some digital capacity.

Article Link: E3 and NAB Events Canceled Due to Coronavirus

 

[dontwalkhand]

Stupid Virus. Now we get nothing but death this year.

 

[lunarworks]

E3 was on shaky ground this year to begin with. The ISDA is stubborn, but they finally did it.

 

[gugy]

Man, this is only the beginning. Major disruption on the world economy ahead. Be ready for a depression. Sorry for being a black cloud.

 

[AustinIllini]

Man, this is only the beginning. Major disruption on the world economy ahead. Be ready for a depression. Sorry for being a black cloud.

Maybe. As of now this is the best course of action. We don't need any big conferences while this thing is landing in new areas.

 

[FloatingBones]

On the NAB website, the organizers say:

The health and safety of our exhibitors and attendees has always been our top priority.

They also need to include the Las Vegas communities in their statement. Those people are also their priority. I know they're thinking that, but they (and others) need to explicitly note their concern for the local communities.

 

[bsbeamer]

NAB should have cancelled earlier. Good for AJA, Adobe and all the others who dropped out to force their hand. The way NAB handled their response to this was horrible from the start.

 

[kofman13]

its just a damn flu theres nothing to be afraid of. average age of death from corona is 80 smh. i cant believe they made such chaos over absolutely nothing

 

[metalsiren]

its just a damn flu theres nothing to be afraid of. average age of death from corona is 80 smh. i cant believe they made such chaos over absolutely nothing

its not a flu, everyone needs to stop saying that since its very W R O N G

 

[TheRealTVGuy]

NAB cancelling is a huge deal. Hundreds of Thousands of dollars trade hands each year surrounding this event.

 

[Ryth]

its just a damn flu theres nothing to be afraid of. average age of death from corona is 80 smh. i cant believe they made such chaos over absolutely nothing

NAB makes sense since it's a few weeks away...E3 no way.

By June this will be an after thought & we'll be wondering what the hysteria was about.

I don't care about the comparisons to the flu, etc... this is affecting hundreds of thousands less then the flu & we don't freak out like this about flu outbreaks that spread just as fast, kill hundreds of thousands more, and can't be quaranteed & has a vaccine that doesn't aways work.

The mass majority that get this will never have anything other then mild symptoms...this is mass hysteria that is a self fulfilling prophecy.

its not a flu, everyone needs to stop saying that since its very W R O N G

It's a respiratory virus that is similar to the flu. No it's not the flu. But it's in the same type of category.

The flu is the correct virus to compare it because of the hysteria being generated over this when flu outbreaks, contaminations, etc killed hundreds of thousands more no one goes insanity level like they are now. Flu kills everyone of all ages, this seems to focus on the elderly or compromised immune systems (just like the flu).

Again, in the US we have 33 deaths, all compromised individuals, most in a home. Think about that..out of hundreds of millions, 33 deaths. And I guarantee you people have had this since Dec/Jan in the USA. China wasn't honest about this.

Right now we're about about 3 months into this and 4.6k people have died out of billions. That will go up some, but at this rate, China has slowed to almost nothing, same with Korea, Japan, etc...and China was the ground zero area with terrible health, hygiene, air quality etc...take out them this doesn't even register.

We're over-reacting to a point of causing a recession & this is absurdity night now. Cancelling E3 was stupid. They should rethink this in a month.

 

[Appleman3546]

Three years ago, e3 was critical to the industry. But with most game companies adopting a Nintendo direct style stream (state of play etc), this could be the end of e3 (or at least the end of its significance for gaming announcements in favor of just being a show floor like PAX) as the big gaming giants pursue other means of marketing for the first time ever.

 

[citysnaps]

its just a damn flu theres nothing to be afraid of. average age of death from corona is 80 smh. i cant believe they made such chaos over absolutely nothing

In a word, astonishing. And sad.

 

[newyorksole]

its just a damn flu theres nothing to be afraid of. average age of death from corona is 80 smh. i cant believe they made such chaos over absolutely nothing

You’re about to get a lottttt if replies buddy Lol.

Anyway... I really do wonder if this will still be a fear come May/June and beyond.Can’t say they’re wrong or right for thinking ahead.

 

[bladerunner2000]

China has some explaining to do.

 

[triangletechie]

Didn't know we had so many doctors on this site.

 

[TMRJIJ]

its just a damn flu theres nothing to be afraid of. average age of death from corona is 80 smh. i cant believe they made such chaos over absolutely nothing

It's not a flu virus. The reason why it's a big deal is that it spreads about 2-3.5x as fast as the Flu.
Old people are not only ones at risk of death. Anyone with pre-existing conditions regarding their respiratory systems should be a little more cautious.
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Didn't know we had so many doctors on this site.

The CDC's research/warnings are publicly available allowing anyone to 'play' doctor.

 

[Ryth]

One thing being lost in all this hysteria.

How much cleaner people are being in general. A lot less bacteria/viruses in general, especially the flu due to the mass cleaning operations everywhere. I've gotten so many emails from my office building, condo building, restaurants, stores, etc all saying they are doing 110% cleaning efforts.

Things that people should have been doing all along over the years. Maybe this will help bring down flu deaths this year.

 

[cosmichobo]

its just a damn flu theres nothing to be afraid of. average age of death from corona is 80 smh. i cant believe they made such chaos over absolutely nothing

Influenza kills 0.1% of people who contract it. COVID-19 kills 2-3% or more. And yes, it "targets" people in their later years, so young people can just ignore the threat, right? Sure, if you don't care about your parents/grandparents...

 

[Joniz]

For those who keep going on about “it only kills old people and sick people.”

Your parents/grandparents must love you, despite your being an a$hole.

Secondly, the more it spreads, the more chance it has to mutate. A virus, as simple as it is, is life as well and will do what it can to survive. So one day we’ll just be saying “It only kills pathetic, lonely people who whine on forums, so who cares?”

 

[smirking]

its just a damn flu theres nothing to be afraid of. average age of death from corona is 80 smh. i cant believe they made such chaos over absolutely nothing

Yeah, it's just a flu. China froze their entire economy for a month because they feared the sniffles.

There are dead bodies in the corridors of this Wuhan hospital and people hooked up to oxygen in the lobby because of a weak sauce flu.

Doctors in Italy are being forced to allow some patients to die because they can't treat them all because of some congestion.

All events of more than 1000 people are canceled in the tech capital of the world because we're all snowflakes here who can't handle a cough.

Yeah, that's some flu. You need to stop this nonsense. You're going to get people killed.

 

[tzm41]

NAB makes sense since it's a few weeks away...E3 no way.

By June this will be an after thought & we'll be wondering what the hysteria was about.

I don't care about the comparisons to the flu, etc... this is affecting hundreds of thousands less then the flu & we don't freak out like this about flu outbreaks that spread just as fast, kill hundreds of thousands more, and can't be quaranteed & has a vaccine that doesn't aways work.

The mass majority that get this will never have anything other then mild symptoms...this is mass hysteria that is a self fulfilling prophecy.




It's a respiratory virus that is similar to the flu. No it's not the flu. But it's in the same type of category.

The flu is the correct virus to compare it because of the hysteria being generated over this when flu outbreaks, contaminations, etc killed hundreds of thousands more no one goes insanity level like they are now. Flu kills everyone of all ages, this seems to focus on the elderly or compromised immune systems (just like the flu).

Again, in the US we have 33 deaths, all compromised individuals, most in a home. Think about that..out of hundreds of millions, 33 deaths. And I guarantee you people have had this since Dec/Jan in the USA. China wasn't honest about this.

Right now we're about about 3 months into this and 4.6k people have died out of billions. That will go up some, but at this rate, China has slowed to almost nothing, same with Korea, Japan, etc...and China was the ground zero area with terrible health, hygiene, air quality etc...take out them this doesn't even register.

We're over-reacting to a point of causing a recession & this is absurdity night now. Cancelling E3 was stupid. They should rethink this in a month.

China was the ground zero area with terrible health, hygiene, air quality

Yeah way to downplay a global pandemic! Just blame it on the Chinese's terrible health and hygiene. Regardless of how accurate or inaccurate your perception is about Chinese hygiene, care to explain why Italy has 1/23 of Chinese population, but already 1/8 of coronavirus confirmed cases and still rapidly climbing? Must be that Italy also has terrible health, hygiene and air quality, right?

Korea is testing 10k+ people per day, and actively quarantining suspected cases. What are we doing? How many are we testing per day?

If China is all about money over anything else like people usually say, why would they sacrifice billions of dollars of profit to lock down provinces, and spend tons of money building new hospitals and send in doctors, if just washing hands would help stop this "yet another flu"?

mass hysteria that is a self fulfilling prophecy

Pretty much the opposite. The more careful people are, the less severe the outcome will be. Plus, there's no hysteria. Many people, like yourself, think it's overblown media fear mongering. If everyone thinks it's just a flu and treat it like a flu, it will end up way worse than a flu.

 

[smirking]

For those who keep going on about “it only kills old people and sick people.”

Oh, it WILL kill more than the sick and the elderly even if it doesn't do it directly. The great danger of this virus is that it hits our modern healthcare system where it's weakest so it doesn't take a lot for it to overwhelm our defenses. Once our healthcare system is overrun, all sorts of things that would have been routine become life and death situations.

If you have a heart attack or a serious injury that requires emergency surgery, you might never make it to the ER because an ambulance may not be available and even if you got to the ER, there might not be anywhere to put you. Even if you got inside, there might not be a surgeon available to operate on you or there might not even be an OR available because in Italy, they had to convert some of their OR rooms into makeshift isolation rooms because Covid 19 is highly contagious and you cannot toss a Covid 19 patient in a general medical/surgical unit bed unless you want a cruise ship outbreak on your hands.

 

[cmaier]

its just a damn flu theres nothing to be afraid of. average age of death from corona is 80 smh. i cant believe they made such chaos over absolutely nothing

Dr. Fauci today said, even taking into account that many cases are as yet undetected, the likely fatality rate is 5x that of the seasonal flu.

The reason the average age of fatality is high is because once you hit age 80 you have a 10-15% chance to die, which is astounding. The death rates at younger age groups are generally higher than the flu as well, however.

 

[smirking]

Influenza kills 0.1% of people who contract it. COVID-19 kills 2-3% or more. And yes, it "targets" people in their later years, so young people can just ignore the threat, right? Sure, if you don't care about your parents/grandparents...

The death rate has always been fuzzy and is getting even fuzzier, but I do tend to believe the experts who say that under ideal conditions it could be kept below 1% or at least near 1%.

On the other hand, that's all academic because once the healthcare system is overrun, the death rate goes way up as people are just going to be left to die because there aren't resources to save them. Italy's a highly developed Western nation. Their fatality rate is currently above 6% overall and was even higher the past few days as the spread of the infection accelerated.

Some people are being comforted by the thought that this should only kill well under 1% of people. That's a dangerous assumption to make because of the way this virus disables the healthcare defenses that allow us to keep critically sick people alive.