Covid-19 at the conventions

[Bijou_Drains]

the most unhappy people will be the hotels and eateries and other places in Charlotte ® and Milwaukee (D) , they were looking forward to a week with a lot of cash flowing in.

[RioRico]

This thread started less than 6 weeks ago. Note the first few posts. Conventions are cancelling, but don’t worry, the virus is over-exaggerated. Right. I predicted disruption but no, don’t worry, and feds can’t cancel elections. Uh-huh. But with a second wave of infections come September, and a shortage of body bags, national declaration of martial law isn’t beyond possibility. Oh, but that can’t happen here! Right.

[Tamerlane]

@dtilque

I’m not sure I understand the gist of your post.

I assume it refers to comments like this:

@ITR_champion

No, no, and no.

The threat from coronavirus is greatly exaggerated. Thus far, worldwide, far more people have died from the flu than from coronavirus. Far more people have died from malaria than from the coronavirus. Far more people have died from a lot of causes than from coronavirus.

At this point in time we cannot say how far coronavirus will spread, how infectious it is, or what the death rate is, but the best guess at this time is that it is about as bad or perhaps slightly worse than a typical flu season. It does not merit massive quarantines, travel shutdowns, or cancellation of almost all public events. It’s true that some countries have gone that route anyway, but as more data becomes available it will become clearer that the danger has been exaggerated, and pressure will build to cancel such extreme measures.

[Bijou_Drains]

tons of other conventions are already cancelled. some places have already cancelled July 4th events. No need to get 18,000 people in 1 building to do the obvious.

[Kolak_of_Twilo]

@ITR_champion

No, no, and no.

The threat from coronavirus is greatly exaggerated. Thus far, worldwide, far more people have died from the flu than from coronavirus. Far more people have died from malaria than from the coronavirus. Far more people have died from a lot of causes than from coronavirus.

At this point in time we cannot say how far coronavirus will spread, how infectious it is, or what the death rate is, but the best guess at this time is that it is about as bad or perhaps slightly worse than a typical flu season. It does not merit massive quarantines, travel shutdowns, or cancellation of almost all public events. It’s true that some countries have gone that route anyway, but as more data becomes available it will become clearer that the danger has been exaggerated, and pressure will build to cancel such extreme measures.

I was curious if you might want to revisit this post.

[Bijou_Drains]

GOP full steam ahead for Aug. convention. This probably comes from Trump.

RNC: Moving 'full steam ahead' on plans for August convention in Charlotte