VCF PNW 2020: Cancelled

[Warner Losh]

The CDC does *NOT* say that the flu is more of a threat than COVID-19.
Given that it's early in flu season, we cannot yet know which will be more
deadly this year. We're at the left hand side of the exponential curve so
comparisons to prior year's full year data are not valid.

Warner

On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 11:37 AM Richard Pope <mechanic_2 at charter.net> wrote:

> Hello all,
>      What I said below is from the CDC. That is all that I am going to
> say on the subject.
> GOD Bless and Thanks,
> rich!
>
> On 3/6/2020 9:48 AM, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote:
> > Yes. I thought about posting a long rebuttal, with citations to peer
> > reviewed articles and then thought better of it. I'll just say that world
> > health organization (www.who.int) has the best, most current advice
> based
> > on the accumulated evidence to date and a track record of providing good
> > information over several of these outbreaks and avoids the partisan mess
> > that exists in national sources.
> >
> > Warner
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 1:11 AM Tor Arntsen via cctalk <
> cctalk at classiccmp.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Please do not try to spread medical advice on a mailing list.
> >> FYI, what you're saying does *not* match proper advice from medical
> >> sources.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, 6 Mar 2020 at 07:58, Richard Pope via cctalk
> >> <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> >>> Hello all,
> >>>       The Covid-19 threat is being over sold. Children don't seem to be
> >>> at risk. It is the elderly that seem to get really sick. If you are
> sick
> >>> just stay home. You can also wear a mask and that will protect others.
> >>> The flu is more of a threat than Covid-19. If you are not sick wearing
> a
> >>> mask is a waste of money and resources for you can be infected through
> >>> the eyes. No reason to cancel. Just request that sick people please
> stay
> >>> home.
> >>> GOD Bless and Thanks,
> >>> rich!
> >>>
> >>> On 3/5/2020 11:30 PM, John Herron via cctalk wrote:
> >>>> Tough choice and I saw the museum closing announcement today also. Is
> >> there
> >>>> a way to still buy any swag and show support for all of you folks'
> hard
> >>>> work?
> >>>>
> >>>> Probably too soon to say but any chance of a reschedule vs cancel?
> >>>>
> >>>> On Thu, Mar 5, 2020, 7:34 PM Michael Brutman via cctalk <
> >>>> cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> The short story: COVID-19
> >>>>>
> >>>>> More details at http://vcfed.org/vcf-pnw.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Mike
> >>>>>
>
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