2-3% of people who catch a cold don’t die from it.
You are spreading dangerous falsehoods and people who take your advice are risking their lives.
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2-3% of people who catch a cold don’t die from it.
You are spreading dangerous falsehoods and people who take your advice are risking their lives.
Perhaps. But I’ll err on the side that these things blow over pretty quickly. Meanwhile it’s funny to laugh at the nutjobs.
I stopped working at an Apple store a few months ago and am so glad I did. Sooo many people leaving nasty residue on devices and the cleaner the stores use doesn’t have disinfectant.
A bad cold? Sure. It probably won't affect you directly, or any younger or healthy person. It will mostly affect the old and the already sick. I mean, that is part of nature, we are all gonna die. So say goodbye to your auntie and granny and move on with your life.
But here's the deal. This virus is several times more contagious than regular flu, on par with Spanish flu.It is as deadly as Spanish flu, around 1%. That virus killed 100 million people. That will not happen again, because we are more advanced now, but it will certainly kill millions eventually, if it is not contained (and it won't be).
The secondary effects are already visible: quarantines, restrictions, disturbances in supply chains, increasingly strained health care, stock market crash. Eventually health care systems will break down, like in Hubei (I recommend you watch available documentaries) and recession will set in.
This is where you come in. You and your money. It's just a bad cold, but it might cost you your job and make your 401k go south. It will mean bad times for many more than those who die or are chronically impaired by the disease.
Ignorance is bliss, and people like you are part of the problem.
But here's the deal. This virus is several times more contagious than regular flu, on par with Spanish flu.It is as deadly as Spanish flu, around 1%. That virus killed 100 million people. That will not happen again, because we are more advanced now, but it will certainly kill millions eventually, if it is not contained (and it won't be).
The secondary effects are already visible: quarantines, restrictions, disturbances in supply chains, increasingly strained health care, stock market crash. Eventually health care systems will break down, like in Hubei (I recommend you watch available documentaries) and recession will set in.
This is where you come in. You and your money. It's just a bad cold, but it might cost you your job and make your 401k go south. It will mean bad times for many more than those who die or are chronically impaired by the disease.
Ignorance is bliss, and people like you are part of the problem.
What treatment do you usually prescribe for viruses?
How does "layover country travel history scrubbing" work? Your travel history shows up on your passport. How do you get around this?
Ten years ago, if this virus were not identified, there would be no quarantines, and you would already have seen ten times the number of cases world-wide.
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Because canceling prematurely will only reduce virus transmission slightly, but would shut down the economy. Try 30% unemployment. That would probably kill more people than just this virus alone.
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Your entire history doesn't show up on your passport. Many countries use electronic systems and don't share the data.
E.g. U.S. citizen goes to Australia. Then they fly to Hong Kong. This person is also a Hong Kong Identity Card holder because they were born in HK. They travel to China by using a Return Home Permit card (issued to HKID holders). When this person needs to return to the U.S., there is no evidence they went to China. A Canadian citizen and HKID card holder can enter and exit HK and China without a single stamp.
In the above example, there is not a single stamp on the U.S. or Canadian passport. More than a dozen places like Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, and South Korea no longer stamp passports on entry or exit.
That must be why the whistleblower Dr and others who tried to warn in the early days were arrested not heard from again. Great medical care means squat when Ideology controls all.
I am not sure what he’s talking about, but several times I’ve entered countries without getting my passport stamped. One trip to Italy, for example. And a trip to france where I stopped for a few days in italy.
Yes, I travel all over within Europe, and also to / from USA. In my experience I typically do get stamp when first enter and when exit EU. Nothing traveling between EU countries.
If USA decided, for example, to restrict USA travel from/to Italy in some way, it will be difficult to implement fully effectively. Easy to get around it, for USA citizens traveling to Italy, and for citizens of other EU countries traveling to USA immediately after a recent Italy visit.
You have my deepest sympathies. Whenever I need to go to the Apple Store during cold/flu season, I make it a point to not touch anything and hope I can get in and out of there as fast as possible. I will not even set foot in the store unless I really really need to. When it's packed it just looks like a giant petri dish from the outside... quite literally, a petri dish.
E3 is a bit of an exaggeration on your behalf, that’s not until the second week of June, next to WWDC.
_If_ the E3 conference was in April per se, then I would probably think you’d have a point, but that far out until June, I don’t see your example here being relevant.
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Just my thoughts on this. I can respect that your ‘germ conscious’, as am I to an extent with Regimented hygiene/sanitization procedures. But for you to have that type of anxiety where you feel the need to not even visit a department store unless you absolutely need to, makes me almost wonder if it’s something where you need to seek help. That’s not a way to live if you’re overly conscious of being out in public, that causes you almost to the point to become a recluse to leave your home.
Really, I get it, sometimes the media Can exacerbate things where it puts you in a state where it causes you to be overly-conscious, but it should _never_ have control over your life where you can’t visit a store because you’re overly concerned that you may ‘breathe’ the same air as someone else. That’s absurd to live like that, and quite frankly, you’re allowing your own anxiety to control your actions Versus you having the control. Just something to think about.
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I know you're trying to help so I'm not offended, but this is assuming a lot more than I wanted to put forward. I'm not germ phobic for myself. Most colds I get barely even register with me.
It does suck to have to live like this (for a few months every year), but I'm not doing it for myself and that's all I want to say.
You sound like you are already worried.I will be a photographer at a dance convention in 2 weeks in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. There will be around 1,000 people there from mostly the East Coast of the United States.
Should I be worried?
tell me, are you healthy? Are you active? If you’re active its safe to assume you’ve got a healthy immune system.
if your diet is poor and you’re not an active person. Yeah I’d be very worried. I’d stay home and only leave if i must.
This is correct. Your passport is only stamped at the first point of entry into the European Union. Travel between all countries in the EU are free travel and you don't get your passport stamped in any of those countries. This includes Italy.
Literally! Even the break room is gross. People leaving food and drinks in lockers. We’ve seen ants, roaches and bed bugs.
The worst part is that people don’t want to call out of work, so they’ll come in sick. We’ll have meetings in small rooms or hallways that are just breeding grounds for germs.
But yeah you are smart to only go when you need to and to not touch devices. We also get a lot of homeless people in Apple stores (at least in major cities) and yeah... You can imagine.
Oh dear, I am rather sorry but you appeared to have taken a part of my comment, and used it out of context, you see, if you look at my comment as a whole, which would be gratefully appreciated I can assure you
, you will see I also stated it all depends on what happens this month, March.If the virus doesn’t spread beyond say a couple of thousand in each country then I’d agree yes, events in the summer will happen as normal.
If however, as my comment was in context implied, the virus spread to hundreds of thousands which is entirely possible, then no I cannot see events like E3 being held this year.
I apologise if my original comment confused you but that is why I implied.
Welp. I guess I have my answer on my conference: https://www.adobe.com/summit.html
Shame - I was REALLY looking forward to this.
Shame - I was REALLY looking forward to this.