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OT: Should SXSW 2020 be allowed to happen?

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Iitbhorn3

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Not quite UT sports-related, but something many of you might want to chime in on...
 
Probably not a good idea to have it this year. My understanding is a lot of folks travel in internationally for SXSW.
 
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Life goes on. Wash, sanitize and repeat.

or if Clob just scrub really well with your loofah.
 
It is utterly irresponsible on behalf of the Austin Mayor and SXSW organizers to go ahead with the event. As an Austin resident, I do not want 100K people visiting Austin at this time.
The risk is no longer just people who have international exposure. The spread with the US is already significant.

Unfortunately, our Mayor and Governor do not have the balls to make the right call. The UT President was equally clueless in his lame communication today - he is still calling out the risk from international destinations only. When are these nitwits going to get their heads out of the sand or the asses of those with ulterior motives?
 
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Iitbhorn3 said:
It is utterly irresponsible on behalf of the Austin Mayor and SXSW organizers to go ahead with the event. As an Austin resident, I do not want 100K people visiting Austin at this time.
The risk is no longer just people who have international exposure. The spread with the US is already significant.

Unfortunately, our Mayor and Governor do not have the balls to make the right call. The UT President was equally clueless in his lame communication today - he is still calling out the risk from international destinations only. When are these nitwits going to get their heads out of the sand or the asses of those with ulterior motives?
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People are free to make choices and I respect yours to stay home.
 
Question for everyone . . . If a stupid little virus named after a Mexican beer can scare us this much . . . .

What the hell are we gonna do when HerpaGonoSyphaAides becomes airborne? Good grief, people scare so easily.
 
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If SXSW doesn't happen, it'll hurt plenty of businesses and thus families in ATX and the surrounding areas. It's not an easy decision. It shouldn't be made based on panic or carelessness, but on facts. I understand those who are concerned. I didn't think we should be transporting Americans (sick and possibly well) from China, Japan, South Korea, etc.

And I taught in South Korea for a few years.

I'd have understood it if I was in a high-danger area and prevented from coming home, so as to prevent a pandemic from hitting the USA. But no. They put sick and maybe well people on the same bus(es), and then on the same plane, until many more got sick, and then they brought them to Lackland AFB in San Antonio and other military bases, and didn't make sure they stayed in quarantine. Well done, whoever made those decisions!

I wonder how many ticket holders to the Olympics in Tokyo are just going to toss those tickets, after failing to sell them.
 
The moral corruption among our leaders (from SXSW organizers to Trump) is at display here.....
 
Coronavirus is really just a variety of flu. Probably a bit more lethal. Will a vaccine work? Flu vaccine today has a number needed to treat of 71. That is, it takes 71 vaccinations to prevent 1 case of flu. Virus has apparently already mutated into 2 types. Flu has a .1% death rate, so every 71,000 vaccinations saves one person. Don't shake hands, nothing else matters much.
 
TX1972 said:
Coronavirus is really just a variety of flu. Probably a bit more lethal. Will a vaccine work? Flu vaccine today has a number needed to treat of 71. That is, it takes 71 vaccinations to prevent 1 case of flu. Virus has apparently already mutated into 2 types. Flu has a .1% death rate, so every 71,000 vaccinations saves one person. Don't shake hands, nothing else matters much.
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That's not entirely accurate. People with CVD and a previous MI cut their mortality rates in half by getting a flu vaccine. Its about 40% rate cut for those with Type 1 diabetes.
 
Journal:
  • Hospital Infection Control & Prevention v44 n5 (May 2017) n/a
The findings suggest flu vaccination “reduced the risk of influenza-associated death by half among children with high-risk conditions and by nearly two-thirds among children without high-risk conditions,” the authors reported in a new study.1 The study, which was conducted by CDC investigators, is the first to use laboratory-confirmed outcomes to determine flu vaccine efficacy against influenza-associated deaths, the authors report, noting that “observational studies that have used nonspecific outcomes, such as all-cause mortality, have often overestimated effects of influenza vaccination on mortality in older adults.” From 1976 to 2007, pediatric influenza was estimated to cause some 100 deaths annually, the authors report. Since 2004, when influenza-associated deaths among children under 18 became nationally notifiable, reported numbers of deaths have ranged from 37 in the 2011–2012 season to 358 during the 2009 H1N1 influenza A pandemic, they noted. “Influenza vaccination coverage was less than 30% among some occupations with frequent contact with the public, such as food preparation and serving, sales, personal care, and service occupations, even though there have been relatively high rates of influenza-like illness documented in these occupations,” the researchers reported.
 
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speedstrength said:
That's not entirely accurate. People with CVD and a previous MI cut their mortality rates in half by getting a flu vaccine. Its about 40% rate cut for those with Type 1 diabetes.
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For most of us:
CVD = cardiovascular disease
MI = myocardial infarction (heart attack)

If I'm wrong, the correction will be coming in 3, 2, 1...
 
speedstrength said:
Journal:
  • Hospital Infection Control & Prevention v44 n5 (May 2017) n/a
The findings suggest flu vaccination “reduced the risk of influenza-associated death by half among children with high-risk conditions and by nearly two-thirds among children without high-risk conditions,” the authors reported in a new study.1 The study, which was conducted by CDC investigators, is the first to use laboratory-confirmed outcomes to determine flu vaccine efficacy against influenza-associated deaths, the authors report, noting that “observational studies that have used nonspecific outcomes, such as all-cause mortality, have often overestimated effects of influenza vaccination on mortality in older adults.” From 1976 to 2007, pediatric influenza was estimated to cause some 100 deaths annually, the authors report. Since 2004, when influenza-associated deaths among children under 18 became nationally notifiable, reported numbers of deaths have ranged from 37 in the 2011–2012 season to 358 during the 2009 H1N1 influenza A pandemic, they noted. “Influenza vaccination coverage was less than 30% among some occupations with frequent contact with the public, such as food preparation and serving, sales, personal care, and service occupations, even though there have been relatively high rates of influenza-like illness documented in these occupations,” the researchers reported.
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Vaccinating children is more effective.
 
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