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[megamania]

DC Comics is cancelling their country wide meet & greets due to the virus. Conventions next?

 

[Aeson]

SXSW is canceled. I can see conventions shutting down also.

 

[jonesy]

Everything is cancelled. They're saying even the cherry blossom festivals in Japan are cancelled which sounds strange. Did they ask the trees to kindly postpone the whole thing?

 

[CleverNickName]

Emerald City ComiCon has been officially "postponed," but a new date hasn't been announced...so, cancelled, in other words.

EDIT: the BBC just announced that Coachella has been postponed until October, and the release of the new James Bond movie has been moved back to November.

 

[Aeson]

Dragoncon is in September I wonder if it will be canceled.

 

[Deset Gled]

Harvard is shutting down, as is the university near me. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory has shut down all events and courses. Even parent-teacher conferences at my kids school are now being offered as a web conference to cut down traffic in the building.

 

[Aeson]

Anyone else think this is an overreaction?
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[CleverNickName]

Nah, I think it's appropriate. We aren't quite to the point of "stay home and lock your doors" yet, but we're definitely at the "maybe avoid crowds and children" stage.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

If this were certain other countries, I’d say it was a clear overreaction.

But here? We’ve tested a woefully small percentage of people who may have been exposed*. So there’s this huge “reservoir” of unknown carriers in the USA.




* in part because we opted NOT to use the WHO tests while the CDC was developing its own.

 

[Aeson]