Shit getting real fast.

The opening round of the F1 season is in a week's time here in Melbourne. I've been every year for 2 decades but now getting pressure from my wife not to go (it's a big event for me so I'm stressing over it).

What would you guys do (assume its an event you love to attend)?

I attend all 3-days and meet up with alot of friends from around the world who visit. The main days get about 100k people per day.

I am a little concerned I must admit.

I would still go and take necessary precautions (take masks, wear full clothes). Its impossible to breathe in the virus so proper sanitation and avoiding touch (specially when folks are sweaty) is the key.

Seattle is a ghost town. Still only affecting a small percentage of the country. We will see what happens if and when it spreads.

Hopefully this helps contain it in Washington or at least slows the spread. I still think Italy and South Korea might turn the corner, but it it’s unknown how much worse it might get before it gets better. If it’s not contained, it means China’s measures made the difference.

Most people in Iran will soon have it. 8% of the parliament has it (23 of 290). Either the virus has a bias against high ranking Iranian officials or its far worse than reported in the country. It could also be almost impossible to eradicate with it having become so widespread. Even if there is a vaccine, the virus can mutate, like flu and cold viruses tend to. I don’t think they will ever get rid of it in countries like Iran and it therefore will be hard to prevent it from eventually spreading to the developed world.

China’s main challenge looks to become preventing the virus’s return from abroad.

If the Diamond Princess is representative, the mortality rate might be 1%. 7 of about 700 infected people died. It’s the only population with a census rather than a survey since I believe they tested everyone.

The WHO revised the mortality rate to 3.4% from 2.3% on Tuesday. The Diamond Princess could be a special case because the sick were isolated early and received proper medical care.

But the WHO’s numbers are based on the over 3000 that died of the 90,000 confirmed cases. That lacks the many more likely undetected cases. With the 2009 influenza pandemic the mortality rate ended up being revised downward. The Princess Diamond included many asymptomatic cases, while the Chinese cases, on which the WHO’s estimate is mostly based, includes few asymptomatic cases.

If it gets delayed then we'll probably get an announcement this week. It seems like its too late but who knows.

If they do Mulan I say give it Soul's date and move Soul to Fall.

Is anyone else skeptical of the coronavirus numbers from each country? Whether it's due to deliberate government interference or inadequate, improper or insufficient procedures, I think the number of cases could be triple what we have now. People have been asymptomatic, still caught the virus and yet have been able to transmit to others through contact or droplets spawning another cluster.

Is anyone else skeptical of the coronavirus numbers from each country? Whether it's due to deliberate government interference or inadequate, improper or insufficient procedures, I think the number of cases could be triple what we have now. People have been asymptomatic, still caught the virus and yet have been able to transmit to others through contact or droplets spawning another cluster.