On Mar 16, 2020, at 13:37 , Alexandre Petrescu <alexandre.petrescu@gmail.com> wrote:

a tv news report a few hours ago about status in America (USA) says the map is this.

on another hand, a close person to me, speaking from Texas, he says 9 cases in his city in Texas.  That map does not show Texas, as far as I know America (USA) geography.

Now, it might be that some regions might be more important than others; yet, every pereson is equal.

Or, it might be that the map builder (a respected person, reporter, TV man) di wrong job or so.

Or, it might be Texas does not want to confine.  At which point - one wonders.  Its the same about UK not want to confine.

so, doubcle check always good

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Le 16/03/2020 à 21:15, Alexandre Petrescu a écrit :

Le 16/03/2020 à 20:08, Owen DeLong a écrit :

On Mar 16, 2020, at 07:04 , Alexandre Petrescu <alexandre.petrescu@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