MWC 2020 canceled over coronavirus health concerns
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Re: MWC 2020 canceled over coronavirus health concerns
#2I just can't understand why the stock market keeps going up.
Re: MWC 2020 canceled over coronavirus health concerns
#3I just can't understand why the stock market keeps going up.
Apparently zoom has been going up because more people will work remotely during this period.
Crazy.
Re: MWC 2020 canceled over coronavirus health concerns
#4This is a very sad news for the city of Barcelona and for everyone involved in organizing or exhibiting. But that was the right choice.
I'm wondering what's next to be cancelled.
Re: MWC 2020 canceled over coronavirus health concerns
#5I just can't understand why the stock market keeps going up.
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Re: MWC 2020 canceled over coronavirus health concerns
#6I just can't understand why the stock market keeps going up.
Interest rates are negative. This causes people to chase and a big factor in this bubble. Companies are borrowing billions for free to do stock buybacks and keep the price going straight up. Nothing lasts forever. When is the big question.
Re: MWC 2020 canceled over coronavirus health concerns
#7This is a very sad news for the city of Barcelona and for everyone involved in organizing or exhibiting. But that was the right choice. I'm wondering what's next to be cancelled.
Tons of things have been canceled in APAC generally. MWC was arguably at least somewhat unique among shows in the Americas and Europe because of the combination of its size, the large Chinese presence, and timing. So far other events I'm aware of over the next couple of months are still on though, of course, that could change.
Re: MWC 2020 canceled over coronavirus health concerns
#8This is a very sad news for the city of Barcelona and for everyone involved in organizing or exhibiting. But that was the right choice. I'm wondering what's next to be cancelled.
Tons of things have been canceled in APAC generally. MWC was arguably at least somewhat unique among shows in the Americas and Europe because of the combination of its size, the large Chinese presence, and timing. So far other events I'm aware of over the next couple of months are still on though, of course, that could change.
I wonder if there will be an impact on Google i/o and Apple’s WWDC. Especially when it comes to Asian visitors.
Re: MWC 2020 canceled over coronavirus health concerns
#9It doesn't make sense from a medical point of view.
China, and specifically Hubei Province and its capital Wuhan, suffer an epidemic that they are trying to control with titanic efforts. 99% of cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) infection, today more than 40,000 with a thousand deaths, have been registered in China. Of them, almost 70% in Hubei. Only 1% of cases have been registered outside China, in 24 countries (including Spain), with transmission chains (secondary cases from a first imported case) very short so far.
To put things in perspective, although perhaps inaccurate, the number of cases of COVID-19 infection in China is less than 3 cases / 100,000 inhabitants.
The flu, in Catalonia, this week has reached figures of 360 cases / 100,000 inhabitants: more than 120 times higher than the incidence of COVID-19 infection in China.[1]
Our Health Alerts and Emergencies system works, works as a team and the protocols established in the EU apply: detect the case, isolate it, treat it and follow all possible contacts. In this way, the transmission chain can likely be properly controlled.
There are many things we do not know for sure about this disease, but most cases (80%) are mild. Serious cases and mortality (2%) will be adjusted downwards safely in the coming weeks, as the detection of mild cases increases. There is WHO data that indicate that control measures are slowing the epidemic in Hubei and better controlling the situation in the rest of China.
[1]: http://canalsalut.gencat.cat/web/.content/_Professionals/Vig...
Re: MWC 2020 canceled over coronavirus health concerns
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Tons of things have been canceled in APAC generally. MWC was arguably at least somewhat unique among shows in the Americas and Europe because of the combination of its size, the large Chinese presence, and timing. So far other events I'm aware of over the next couple of months are still on though, of course, that could change.
I wonder if there will be an impact on Google i/o and Apple’s WWDC. Especially when it comes to Asian visitors.
Those are quite a ways out and aren't super-large events. If those were to end up being impacted, it means a lot of travel/events/activities are being impacted.