I read the NJ recommendation, and went and looked at what my hotel cancellation policy was... But now, I read that New York State is banning gatherings > 500 people. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/nyregion/coronavirus-new-york-update.html Not just "recommending," but shutting things down starting at 5pm tonight. It's true that VCF East is still 6 weeks away and things can and will change. However, I would hazard a guess that attendance will be severely reduced even if we go ahead. VCF has become one of my favorite things and I say that without hesitation. So I'm not hitting Cancel on my room yet, but I'm keeping that tab open... -- Jameel Akari On Thu, 12 Mar 2020, Jason Howe via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Here's one I just came across that talks about the number of confirmed cases vs actual cases and the silent exponential spread. https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-people-will-die-f4d3...
Sorry, but East should be cancelled just like PNW.
--Jason
On 3/12/20 1:12 PM, Eric Rucker via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Additionally, it looks like there's been five cases in Monmouth County alone so far: https://patch.com/new-jersey/manalapan/manalapan-man-becomes-monmouths-fifth...
In light of all of this, even if the event does go on on the scheduled date, I will not be attending. I'm personally not overly concerned, but I don't want to be responsible for community spread either at the event, or if I bring it home to my userbase.
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From: vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org Sent: March 12, 2020 15:40 To: vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org Reply-to: vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org Cc: perkins.jason@gmail.com Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] VCF East 2020 Update
Looks like NJ is recommending all gatherings of >250 be cancelled.
https://nj.gov/governor/news/news/562020/approved/20200312a.shtml
On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 3:12 PM Martin Flynn via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Google “project cautery”
On Mar 12, 2020, at 2:36 PM, Neil Cherry via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On 3/12/20 1:31 PM, Sentrytv via vcf-midatlantic wrote: Has anyone seen the movie "Contagion" ?
May seem a little far-fetched but not too far from the truth. ... so they're gonna drop a bomb on us?
Great, now we're moving into (out?) to a Billy Joel song ... never could understand why they blew the Bronx away ... ;-)
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