Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19) (SARS-CoV-2) [2020]

Can someone give context to the tweets? They seem to be blocked at this particular office location, so all I see now is the blue Twitter Bird, with nothing more. Thanks.
 
BRiT said:
Can someone give context to the tweets? They seem to be blocked at this particular office location, so all I see now is the blue Twitter Bird, with nothing more. Thanks.
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Microsoft got scared of Sony because the PS5 is a 15TF console with custom raytracing co-processor from PowerVR that is easily another 10TF, so they're cancelling their GDC presence.

Oh, and coronavirus.
 
BRiT said:
Can someone give context to the tweets? They seem to be blocked at this particular office location, so all I see now is the blue Twitter Bird, with nothing more. Thanks.
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Team Game Stack said:
After a close review of guidance by global health authorities and out of an abundance of caution, we've made a difficult decision to withdraw from participating at Game Developers Conference 2020 in San Francisco: https://msft.it/6012Tbcs4
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Msft
 
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Kaotik said:
Apparenlty you don't get immunity by getting COVID-19...
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That's a wrong interpretation. If it was the case that you don't develop immunity, humanity is fucked. It means everyone will be constantly ill with Covid-19 forever more, getting well only to be infected by the thousands of infected around them reinfecting them, and the toll on their health over time resulting in early death for everyone.

Reoccurrences of illnesses aren't uncommon. Have you never had a bug, the sort of sore-throat, sniffly nose thing, to get better only for it to reappear a few weeks later? That's normal and natural.

It is very bad to spread misinformation in situations like this (see similarly the 'man made virus with HIV inserts' conclusions jumped to). Every single bit of info needs to be considered rationally for what it exactly is without jumping to conclusions. In this case, there's one report of someone testing positive twice. That in and of itself does not prove people don't ordinarily develop an immunity.
 
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That's a wrong interpretation. If it was the case that you don't develop immunity, humanity is fucked. It means everyone will be constantly ill with Covid-19 forever more, getting well only to be infected by the thousands of infected around them reinfecting them, and the toll on their health over time resulting in early death for everyone.

Reoccurrences of illnesses aren't uncommon. Have you never had a bug, the sort of sore-throat, sniffly nose thing, to get better only for it to reappear a few weeks later? That's normal and natural.

It is very bad to spread misinformation in situations like this (see similarly the 'man made virus with HIV inserts' conclusions jumped to). Every single bit of info needs to be considered rationally for what it exactly is without jumping to conclusions. In this case, there's one report of someone testing positive twice. That in and of itself does not prove people don't ordinarily develop an immunity.
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14% of people that have recovered have been reinfected. That is just the 1 case in Japan. Many in China have been reinfected
 
It's still wrong to say, "you don't develop an immunity" until that's proven. Some people may not develop an immunity. Or maybe nobody does, and the future is everyone infected with Covid19. But until that's proven, no-one should be saying that's the case.

Incidentally, where's that "14% reinfection" figure from? Okay, found reference:

https://www.todayonline.com/world/1...covid-19-test-positive-again-guangdong-report

As this report says, it's not as black-and-white as "14% got reinfected." It's "14% tested positive after being discharged," which can have numerous possibilities why and what it means for the disease.

The Guardian posted this set of more grounded, less sensational numbers a couple hours after the above linked story.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...we-know-and-do-not-know-about-the-coronavirus

The WHO says we still need more information about the severity of the disease. In China, where the vast majority of cases and deaths have so far occurred, we know that 81% of people have had only mild illness. Of the rest, 14% have severe disease, which may become pneumonia, and 5% have critical disease involving breathing problems and organ failure.
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Dealing with problems requires dealing with the real problems, which means avoiding worst-case facts and figures and ensuring everyone has a good view of the big picture without jumping to conclusions and misinterpretations.
 
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sorry just repeated what iroboto said
ignore this post (I should of read more thoroughly before posting)
 
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See my edits above. 14% test positive - that doesn't mean reinfected. They also show no symptoms according to that report, and their families show no signs of infection. So there's work to be done to understand what these positive tests are truly measuring before it can be confirmed or disproven that people are not generating a usual immunity against the disease.
 
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