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Could CCI cancel SDCC 2020 due to the Coronavirus?
« on: February 16, 2020, 10:39:59 AM »
Read an article on CNN.com about the virus lingering around until early next year and Facebook cancelling an upcoming 5000 attendee marketing conference in San Francisco raised my concern about SDCC getting cancelled or scaled back. Thoughts?

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Re: Could CCI cancel SDCC 2020 due to the Coronavirus?
« Reply #1 on: February 16, 2020, 11:07:14 AM »
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Re: Could CCI cancel SDCC 2020 due to the Coronavirus?
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Re: Could CCI cancel SDCC 2020 due to the Coronavirus?
« Reply #2 on: February 16, 2020, 01:09:51 PM »
Nah. Even with a few convention cancellations, I don't feel that SDCC or WC will be cancelled.

Maybe they will take precautions like some other conventions, like not allowing anyone from China or taking temps of everyone.

Even though the coronavirus has been located here in San Diego, it was contained.


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Re: Could CCI cancel SDCC 2020 due to the Coronavirus?
« Reply #3 on: February 16, 2020, 01:13:00 PM »
Unless it is apocalyptic-scale, SDCC 2020 will go as scheduled and everything will be just fine. Personally, I'm more worried about the flu than the coronavirus here in the US, as of this writing.
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Re: Could CCI cancel SDCC 2020 due to the Coronavirus?
« Reply #4 on: February 16, 2020, 03:12:13 PM »
from what i have been able to gather, while coronavirus may be super contagious, it's not particularly deadly.
i think the issue is primarily that infected folks are contagious before they show symptions
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Re: Could CCI cancel SDCC 2020 due to the Coronavirus?
« Reply #5 on: February 16, 2020, 03:53:11 PM »
The normal flu is more deadly than the coronavirus. Unless you're in poor health already or have an infant a normal person shouldn't really be worried about it.

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Re: Could CCI cancel SDCC 2020 due to the Coronavirus?
« Reply #6 on: February 16, 2020, 09:57:14 PM »
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from what i have been able to gather, while coronavirus may be super contagious, it's not particularly deadly.
i think the issue is primarily that infected folks are contagious before they show symptions

This. I think the two week incubation period is also a big factor here so we are probably seeing a lot of cases where ppl were affected very early on.

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Re: Could CCI cancel SDCC 2020 due to the Coronavirus?
« Reply #7 on: February 17, 2020, 09:56:31 AM »
It's the flu. Flu season ends around May. It will all be over well before SDCC begins.

Coincidentally, my husband and I had booked a 2021 trip to China about a week before Coronavirus was all over the news. The organizers already cancelled the 2020 trip. But we're fairly confident that Coronavirus will run its course and be finished long before our trip next year. In fact, we might be 'safer', because these mutated viruses seem to come no more frequently than every decade.

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Re: Could CCI cancel SDCC 2020 due to the Coronavirus?
« Reply #8 on: February 17, 2020, 04:22:10 PM »
I think if the coronavirus is still a big epidemic (or even bigger) in China by July, the US might start banning flights from China before that happens. So I think we'll generally be safe. Always consistently wash your hands of course to help decrease your risk and don't touch your nose/eyes. If someone sitting close to you in panels is clearly sick and is sneezing/coughing, I would probably switch seats just in case.

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Re: Could CCI cancel SDCC 2020 due to the Coronavirus?
« Reply #9 on: February 17, 2020, 07:36:49 PM »
Unless there's a drastic change, I expect SDCC to post a policy similar to what Reed Exhibitions did last week for C2E2.

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Re: Could CCI cancel SDCC 2020 due to the Coronavirus?
« Reply #10 on: February 17, 2020, 09:03:29 PM »
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I think if the coronavirus is still a big epidemic (or even bigger) in China by July, the US might start banning flights from China before that happens. So I think we'll generally be safe. Always consistently wash your hands of course to help decrease your risk and don't touch your nose/eyes. If someone sitting close to you in panels is clearly sick and is sneezing/coughing, I would probably switch seats just in case.

That already happened 2 weeks ago.  The major US airlines stopped direct flights between China and the US.  The remaining flights are being diverted to 5 airports for enhanced screening.  I think screening does more good than stopping the direct flights.  Since nothing stops someone from flying to a third country from China and then onto the US from there.  That's not a direct flight and thus not stopped or diverted.

As for trying to keep from catching anything, people do that every year to keep from getting conflu.  Quite often, people fail.  Someone doesn't have to be sneezing or coughing to pass something to you.  Just breathing does that.  It's especially a problem with novel corona since unlike many other respiratory illnesses, it's contagious before any symptoms appear.

I don't think they will cancel comic-con because that should fall right into the lull between the two outbreak waves.  I think the big impact will be on international attendees.  If the current rules are still in effect, some may not be able to get into the US.

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It's the flu. Flu season ends around May. It will all be over well before SDCC begins.

Coincidentally, my husband and I had booked a 2021 trip to China about a week before Coronavirus was all over the news. The organizers already cancelled the 2020 trip. But we're fairly confident that Coronavirus will run its course and be finished long before our trip next year. In fact, we might be 'safer', because these mutated viruses seem to come no more frequently than every decade.

It seems to be pretty much another disease in the mold of the flu.  It's not unusually deadly or infectious.  Maybe slightly worse than the flu in both regards.  The reason people are taking it so seriously is that over 500,000 people die from the flu every year.  If we had the chance to stamped that out when it first happened, we would have.  So that's why China is taking it so seriously.  It's the chance to stamp out something that could kill half a million people every year if we grow to accept it like the flu.  People tend to think of the flu as just a bad cold.  The reality is that the flu is a killer.  We are just use to it.  Like we are used to even more people dying in car accidents every year.

There are more outbreaks than once a decade.  Offhand in the 10 years or so there was SARS, MERS and H1N1.  There were probably more that just didn't break out sufficiently to make the news.  I've gotten one of those mysterious Chinese flus while wandering in the mountains in Western China.  It completely wiped me out for a couple of weeks.  Other than being constantly short of breath, I didn't have any other respiratory symptoms.  No coughing or sneezing.  Just a very high fever but with no sweating at all.  I thought it might be malaria but the hospital confirmed it wasn't.  Viruses tend to have small outbreaks years before a big one hits.  Not every virus has a big outbreak.
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Re: Could CCI cancel SDCC 2020 due to the Coronavirus?
« Reply #11 on: February 19, 2020, 09:39:13 AM »
During the con please please please wash wash wash your hands!!!
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Re: Could CCI cancel SDCC 2020 due to the Coronavirus?
« Reply #12 on: February 20, 2020, 03:03:53 PM »
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During the con please please please wash wash wash your hands!!!

Not just during the Con but yes, please be especially mindful of what you're touching and whether you've washed your hands during events like SDCC!

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Re: Could CCI cancel SDCC 2020 due to the Coronavirus?
« Reply #13 on: February 21, 2020, 03:49:17 PM »
I don't see them cancelling SDCC (or any other North American comic conventions, for that matter). Most of the events being cancelled are global and/or tech events...many tech companies have a big presence in China and a lack of Chinese presence at these conferences will be felt. But comic cons are largely local events, even SDCC (despite the "I" standing for "International.") Nearly all the vendors are domestic, and the attendees are still hyper-local.
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Re: Could CCI cancel SDCC 2020 due to the Coronavirus?
« Reply #14 on: February 25, 2020, 12:22:17 AM »
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That already happened 2 weeks ago.  The major US airlines stopped direct flights between China and the US.  The remaining flights are being diverted to 5 airports for enhanced screening.  I think screening does more good than stopping the direct flights.  Since nothing stops someone from flying to a third country from China and then onto the US from there.  That's not a direct flight and thus not stopped or diverted.

I was reading on reddit that not all airports are doing screenings, even the Taiwanese airport in Taipei. Kind of scary. We were thinking of going to Europe this year for vacation but after reading about how there's a big increase in coronavirus cases in Italy of all places, I guess we should delay our plans for next year.

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I don't see them cancelling SDCC (or any other North American comic conventions, for that matter). Most of the events being cancelled are global and/or tech events...many tech companies have a big presence in China and a lack of Chinese presence at these conferences will be felt. But comic cons are largely local events, even SDCC (despite the "I" standing for "International.") Nearly all the vendors are domestic, and the attendees are still hyper-local.

I don't worry about SDCC since it's still several months down the line but I am sort of concerned about the upcoming Wondercon. There were a bunch of big tech conferences scheduled at the Moscone Center in San Francisco this month that were cancelled, including one for Facebook. I don't get the impression Facebook is used in China so I'm not sure why the lack of Chinese presence would matter. Is there less a risk of catching the virus in Anaheim vs San Francisco?