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Re: ECCC 2020: March 12-15, 2020
« Reply #90 on: March 02, 2020, 06:10:11 AM »
We can still do a meetup but we will have to do elbows not hugs or handshakes!


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Re: ECCC 2020: March 12-15, 2020
« Reply #91 on: March 02, 2020, 07:11:04 AM »
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The rotisserie chicken is tasty and cheap.  It's a good Sunday dinner. :)

Well, then a lot of people were having a lot of people over!  How many people do you need to eat 5 rotisserie chickens?
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Re: ECCC 2021: December 2-5, 2021
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Re: ECCC 2020: March 12-15, 2020
« Reply #92 on: March 02, 2020, 09:43:03 AM »
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Re: ECCC 2020: March 12-15, 2020
« Reply #93 on: March 02, 2020, 11:41:33 AM »
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We can still do a meetup but we will have to do elbows not hugs or handshakes!


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I wouldn't do that considering that people are taught to cough and sneeze into their elbows. ;)

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Re: ECCC 2020: March 12-15, 2020
« Reply #94 on: March 02, 2020, 11:52:06 AM »
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As far as I know, people who get infected usually have respiratory symptoms, not digestive symptoms...

Covid is lower respiratory, not upper respiratory like the flu or the cold.  So excessive mucus production is not as common and thus lower incidence of runny nose, sneezing or sore throat.  A cough and shortness of breath are more common symptoms.
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Re: ECCC 2020: March 12-15, 2020
« Reply #95 on: March 02, 2020, 12:32:28 PM »
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I wouldn't do that considering that people are taught to cough and sneeze into their elbows. ;)
Well, it looks like we will be doing a lot of bowing then.


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Re: ECCC 2020: March 12-15, 2020
« Reply #96 on: March 02, 2020, 01:31:21 PM »
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Well, it looks like we will be doing a lot of bowing then.

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Re: ECCC 2020: March 12-15, 2020
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Re: ECCC 2020: March 12-15, 2020
« Reply #98 on: March 02, 2020, 03:09:00 PM »
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I agree about Christopher Lloyd, high probability he cancels. So much for the BTTF centerpiece.

Re: GDC part 2...maybe, maybe not. Most of the cancellations at GDC were major sponsors/presenters and global companies. ECCC doesn’t really have those. This is something I’ve long complained about ECCC for not having, but this year it’s probably a good thing they don’t.
The comparison wasn’t about that, it was about GDC releasing a statement last week saying that the event was still on before announcing the postponement of the conference, due to the reason you listed above. The event managers were ‘forced’ to change their minds. It sure feels like ReedPop may be facing the same thing with ECCC after releasing a statement yesterday, still a likelihood of being ‘forced’ to cancel/postpone the con if Washington state recommends canceling all large events this month. So far, there's a good chance that ECCC 2020 may not happen next week.
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Re: ECCC 2020: March 12-15, 2020
« Reply #99 on: March 02, 2020, 03:57:21 PM »
Actually...

ECCC tweeted yesterday, asking people what they were packing to bring to the show. And they received this response today.



So it looks like they are okay with the show going on, but just posting cautionary advice.

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Re: ECCC 2020: March 12-15, 2020
« Reply #100 on: March 02, 2020, 04:29:02 PM »
At C2E2 there were signs posted by some of the celebs asking people not to engage in shaking hands or hugs when taking a photo with the celeb and for their understanding as to why it wasn't allowed.  Not every celeb had those signs, but I saw more than one and suspect you'll see many of the same signs posted at ECCC.

I also saw one person come out prior to a celeb appearance and carefully wipe down the chairs and table with a sanitizer.  Not a bad practice, but still suspect its the kind of thing we'll see a lot more of this year.  Have to admit I used my own hand sanitizer and wipes more frequently this time around.

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Re: ECCC 2020: March 12-15, 2020
« Reply #101 on: March 02, 2020, 04:35:42 PM »
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Actually...

ECCC tweeted yesterday, asking people what they were packing to bring to the show. And they received this response today.



So it looks like they are okay with the show going on, but just posting cautionary advice.
That should be posted, so that's good to see! Hopefully, it means good news for you all, but during today’s press conference in Washington state, it was stated again that local health officials are still thinking about recommending that large gatherings be canceled or postponed for now. Currently, this idea is being seen as a negative, though...for now. Local leaders aren't pleased that the number of confirmed cases keeps going up, obviously.
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Re: ECCC 2020: March 12-15, 2020
« Reply #102 on: March 02, 2020, 04:37:45 PM »
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If it gets so bad that the water turns off, I think we'll have more important things to worry about than covid.  Being a Californian, I always have water and food to last a while.  They drilled that into us since kindergarten.  I was in yesterday stocking up on Kleenex.  It was the last day of the sale.

The rotisserie chicken is tasty and cheap.  It's a good Sunday dinner. :)

Should people in Washington also have a ton of water in food in case of a large earthquake, too? Hopefully even if they're okay from the virus they keep it as emergency backup.

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Re: ECCC 2020: March 12-15, 2020
« Reply #103 on: March 02, 2020, 10:51:23 PM »
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Costco doesn’t have the big gallons. I’m not sure whether the bulk small ones there end up being cheaper per Oz than the big ones elsewhere (it’s fairly easy to find the gallons for $1 each), but I hate small bottles enough to not bother calculating, so I just buy my water at not-Costco.

Yeah true about Costco but I usually get my big water bottles at Target and even the Dollar Stores have Crystal Geiser for $1 each. I think each water bottle have a CRV fee in California (5 cents for small size, 10 cents for big size), so a 24 pack of small water bottles would automatically add an extra dollar to the price.

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Covid is lower respiratory, not upper respiratory like the flu or the cold.  So excessive mucus production is not as common and thus lower incidence of runny nose, sneezing or sore throat.  A cough and shortness of breath are more common symptoms.

From what I read, COVID-19 can be either upper respiratory or lower or both. There's been discussion of people having mild symptoms with the disease, with some of them originally think they just have a regular flu or cold. It's probably also why the disease isn't as fatal as originally thought too. Here's a CDC article that discusses 2 pts from that infected Japanese ship:

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Re: ECCC 2020: March 12-15, 2020
« Reply #104 on: March 03, 2020, 12:20:24 PM »
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From what I read, COVID-19 can be either upper respiratory or lower or both. There's been discussion of people having mild symptoms with the disease, with some of them originally think they just have a regular flu or cold. It's probably also why the disease isn't as fatal as originally thought too. Here's a CDC article that discusses 2 pts from that infected Japanese ship:

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The reason that people with it in the upper respiratory system have mild to no symptoms is because it's a lower respiratory illness.  It doesn't replicate well up there.

Here is a Lancet article regarding covid.

"COVID-19 also has affinity for cells in the lower respiratory tract and can replicate there, causing radiological evidence of lower respiratory tract lesions in patients who do not present with clinical pneumonia."

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Also, both the CDC and WHO recommend testing samples from the lower respiratory tract.  Initially testing can be done on the upper respiratory tract since getting a sample from the lower tract is harder.

As per the CDC, the criteria for testing is people with lower respiratory illness.

"Health care providers should contact their local/state health department immediately to notify them of patients with fever and lower respiratory illness who live in or have recently traveled to an affected area with sustained transmission or have been in close contact with a confirmed COVID-19 patient."

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Guidance from the WHO is to test samples from the lower respiratory tract.  Test samples from the upper tract if you can't get it from the lower.

"Lower respiratory specimens likely have a higher diagnostic value than upper respiratory tract specimens for detecting COVID-19 infection. WHO recommends that, if possible, lower respiratory specimens such as sputum, endotracheal aspirate, or bronchoalveolar lavage be collected for COVID-19 testing. If patients do not have signs or symptoms of lower respiratory tract disease or specimen collection for lower respiratory tract disease is clinically indicated but the collection is not possible, upper respiratory tract specimens, such as a nasopharyngeal aspirate or combined nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal swabs should be collected."

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