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Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 16, 2020, at 4:17 PM, Alexandre Petrescu > <alexandre.petre...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Le 16/03/2020 à 20:08, Owen DeLong a écrit : >> >> >>>> On Mar 16, 2020, at 07:04 , Alexandre Petrescu >>>> <alexandre.petre...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> Le 16/03/2020 à 14:58, Mark Tinka a écrit : >>>>> >>>>> On 15/Mar/20 00:12, Eric M. Carroll wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> There is good news here. The infrastructure has never been better >>>>>> positioned to support this kind of mass event. We can shop from home, >>>>>> work from home, get groceries from home, order drugs, get >>>>>> entertainment, all via IP. The ISP community needs to be ready to >>>>>> respond to the magnitude of what is happening. >>>>> If the Internet was as large in 2003 when SARS hit as it is now in 2020 >>>>> under the Coronavirus, I think we'd have seen the same issues back then. >>>>> >>>>> Nowadays, information gets around a lot faster and with more fuss and >>>>> fanfare than before. On average, by the time you see a shared video clip >>>>> on WhatsApp, you'll be receiving it from 100 other contacts inside of a >>>>> 30 minutes. >>>>> >>>>> As readier as the Internet is today, part of the mega spread of the >>>>> fallout from the Coronavirus is because information is not only >>>>> traveling way faster, a lot of it is also not (necessarily) verified or >>>>> moderated before being shared with is consumers. >>>> >>>> >>>> There is no other way to do that information filterning now. Nobody has >>>> any authority of knowing better than others. >>> >>> This simply isn’t true… >>> >>> Listen to qualified medical professionals, especially those who specialize >>> in infectious diseases and epidemiology. >> >> Doctors are many. Some speak urgent: they say stay home. >> >> Others say this, and yet others say that. >> >> >> >> >> The information on the CDC and WHO websites remains the primary source of >> trustworthy information. It may be >> incomplete, but if someone is contradicting something there, they’re very >> likely to be wrong. > > Stay home. > > > >> >> OTOH, anyone selling “survive COVID” or “cure COVID” etc. is completely >> untrustworthy and guaranteed to be lying to >> you in order to sell a product. Despicable, but common place. > > Yes. > > > >> >> There’s no authoritative way to get false information off the internet, so >> we have to combat it as best we can with good >> information and education. Even in my own household, this is a constant >> battle as my GF continues to bring home >> odd superstitious rumors and embellishments from a variety of inaccurate >> sources and I constantly have to correct her >> perspective. >> >> For up to date local information, check with the local public health >> authority in your jurisdiction. > > I tell you I did. There is 0 info from official channels telling where > precisely are the cases. I had to google the cityname and the virus word. > > The official information here says number of cases, and names the REgions > most affected (large regions). Thats it. > > Please tell me about your city: do you know the numbers in your city? How > did you get the info? > > > > > >> In the US, that will usually >> be your county public health agency. In some cases, individual >> municipalities also have public health departments. > > Please try it and tell me if it works. > > > >> >> At the very least adhere to their orders and recommendations. > > YEs I do. It says this: tomorrow noon all stay indoors, out only for > pharmacy, alimentaiton or criticial job. Thats it. > > They also use other words that I will not type here. > > Alex > >> >> Owen >>
