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PlayStation cancels planned PAX East appearance due to increasing concerns related to Coronavirus [See Staff Post]
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This is a good thread to know who to put on ignore.
Also, please stop thinking games and reputation are more important than health.
Also, please stop thinking games and reputation are more important than health.
How many in the United States have died from alcohol in 2020 vs. the coronavirus, please describe.
I would guess one less than "hundreds", but I'm not that great at math.
We've actually been told the slightest flu like symptom we have to take two weeks off in total isolation.
I do work in the health sector though.
how many kids and elderly people die from alcohol due to compromised immune systems versus personal choice of ingestion.
you're really dense.
This is an absolutely ridiculous decision not based on facts or caution but scare tactics and hyperventilation.
It doesn't make any rational sense to do this while otherwise attending events when the Flu season is going. 10.000 people have died of the flu in the United States in this last season alone. Compared to that, 15 people were found infected with Corvid-19 in the entire United States.
It doesn't make any rational sense to do this while otherwise attending events when the Flu season is going. 10.000 people have died of the flu in the United States in this last season alone. Compared to that, 15 people were found infected with Corvid-19 in the entire United States.
How many people in the United States drink alcohol every day vs travel to China every day, please describe.
How many times have you gone to the bathroom in your life?
If you look at it from the perspective of someone planning to attend, I can see how it's a shitty situation. Those PAX tickets are expensive. And at this point, it's probably too late to try and sell them and get your money back. You certainly couldn't refund them. So what do you do if more vendors cancel PAX and thus making it somewhat pointless to even attend. Just be out $600 or more?
They haven't been attending any events this season. If anything, this seems like a corporate mandate for all parts of the company.
Do you think we should listen to the medical professionals who declared this a global health emergency or nah, they might know better then you or me what that constitutes.
10,500 people were killed by drunk driving in the United States in 2018.
Doesn't feel like a super personal choice for a lot of the people who died other than the driver.
Is the trick here that you are actually a cat making these posts, it wouldn't be hard to believe.
According to Imran they're nervous about GDC as well
GDC is still a month away, so it's possible that things will be under control a bit more by then.
You are like this massive ball of false equivalence manifesting as a forum poster somehow. Are you even human?
Take a step back and look at what you are posting. Is Sony going to Pax or not going to Pax really that important?
Oh wow. My spouse is a nurse, and to my knowledge, they haven't been doing anything special at her hospital. Have you had any conovirus cases/patients at your workplace?
Question as in will they be there? They haven't done any promotions for it and haven't listed what games are going to be showing up there, so maybe?
Question as in why are they going there? Not really, cancelling an event like this is a big financial loss and bureaucratic mess and barring a recommendation by medical experts or the government to not attend events like this it isn't really something that should be viewed as a negative. It's good that Sony is doing this out of an overabundance of caution but other companies shouldn't be blamed for not cancelling given the many factors involved in such a decision
It's worth remembering that this isn't really about the risk to individuals attending PAX East, it is about trying to stop spread of the virus.
The R0 figure for the coronavirus is estimated to be about 2.0 to 2.5. This means that every person infected may infect 2 others. Hence there is a desire to isolate those with the virus to prevent spread. The "Spanish flu" pandemic in about 1918 had a similar R0 value and infected about 27% of the world population.
Although the mortality rate for the coronavirus seems quite low at about 2%, if the virus spreads uncontrolled then this will be 2% of a pretty big number. We're still in the early stages of this outbreak, so caution is a sensible response.
The R0 figure for the coronavirus is estimated to be about 2.0 to 2.5. This means that every person infected may infect 2 others. Hence there is a desire to isolate those with the virus to prevent spread. The "Spanish flu" pandemic in about 1918 had a similar R0 value and infected about 27% of the world population.
Although the mortality rate for the coronavirus seems quite low at about 2%, if the virus spreads uncontrolled then this will be 2% of a pretty big number. We're still in the early stages of this outbreak, so caution is a sensible response.
Once infected the mortality rate of coronavirus is roughly 20x higher than the flu.
The average person may be more at risk from the flu, but why take the unnecessary risk when the situation is still developing and there's still much we don't know?
I'm in an office to make things worse! Nothing that I now of just an email that we got from management at the start of the week. We do interact with a lot of pharmacists though so I can see the angle they're coming from. This is in the UK BTW.
Have you thought about why that might be the case? Do you know that affected countries have companies trying to make their workers work from home and cancelled business trips?
Sony cancelling this is one way for them to not accidentally bring the virus to America.
You don't seem to understand this simple notion: What is the risk of spreading Coronavirus if they do the event versus if they don't, and which is lower. It is a lower risk if they do not do the event. Lower risk is good. Just because some *other* things have a higher risk isn't an argument. If you don't want to drive because you are worried about drunk drivers, that is your choice and you are entitled to it.
Imagine a man is eating a hamburger while walking across a tightrope. Obviously, the greater danger is that he falls, but it would be a good idea for him to not be eating a hamburger at that moment as well, it makes his situation worse.
Where do you work? In the US? And has your place of work been in contact with the disease
People complaining in this thread is almost unreal to me. People are literally dying even here in the UK and you're pissed off because you can't get a new trailer.
WOW.
Just WOW
WOW.
Just WOW
Just put up a video on YouTube and be done with it. It worked for the Switch.
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Empathy??? For what?
They are cancelling an event in BOSTON, not in central WUHAN ffs.
Completely and utterly out of proportion.
Listen, they can release the PS5 or whatever whenever they want, but this virus excuse is nothing short of retarded.
Not that I disagree with their decision, but I imagine Sony being a Japanese corporation has some influence.
Continued giving into a culture of fear and contributing to that culture of fear is important yes. I don't care about The Last of Us Part 2 at all, I do care that people stop hyping this up as the end of the world to justify restrictions on people.
"But the WHO declared it a global state of emergency!" yes and they said this was mostly so that the coronavirus didn't spread to poor countries with bad health care systems. They also didn't recommend limiting travel to China either...
WHO declares coronavirus global emergency as death toll rises
China’s health commission says the number of confirmed coronavirus cases rose to 9,692 with at least 213 deaths.
You mean the medical professionals who ALSO said that "The risk to the American public is "low""?
Trump imposes travel restrictions, mandatory quarantines over coronavirus outbreak
The briefing came as markets fell amid increasing worries about a potential economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak originating from China.
Do you know that there is another Global Health Emergency and that it has been going on for *checks calender* 2 years now?
Kivu Ebola epidemic - Wikipedia
Have you been afraid to go to public events last year because of Ebola? Do you think Sony should have skipped doing conventions ever since 2018? I'd guess probably not, because that would be crazy. And this is exactly what I'm talking about. There is a media frenzy around this virus that is completely ridiculous. That's the reason people read "GLOBAL HEALTH EMERGENCY" and think "OH SHIT WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE", because they have no idea what that phrase actually entails OR that they've been living with a global health emergency for over 2 years now.
I'm sure it does. I was in Tokyo during the big hurricane in October where like everything was closed for precautionary purposes. It was barely raining that day and when it did rain, it didn't rain any harder than it does where I live.
If its delayed, its due to the fact the factories are currently shut down and are not being reopened for month(s). No factories = no PS5's. There will be large global shortages of lots of products, and materials. We just are not feeling the affects yet.
This is a preventive measure. Do you know that the virus has an incubation period of 14 days? And that there is already community spread in Japan, meaning people who haven't had contact with people who got back from China or were in China?
It would be irresponsible of Sony to attend the event.
I mean, Japan closing their nuclear power plants after the disaster lead to them reopening coal plants which will kill have more people than the nuclear disaster (probably by an order or magnitude or three).
Not a good example of caution really working out.
You do realize people from China travel, right? And that the employees travel from other parts of the world through different parts of the world? And that the virus is in other places besides China?
Why does anyone taking precautions to shield themselves or their employees from this virus = them hyping it up that this virus is the end of the world.
For the NHS bsa in the UK.
Mostly office based but we have daily contact with pharmacists that go back out to chemist's.
And no contact that I'm aware of.
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