https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/06/arts/music/sxsw-cancelled.html
If you caught the virus at a organised event could you sue the organisers ?
I could say that this could be more likely in the US but don't want to be seen as America bashing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/06/arts/music/sxsw-cancelled.html
If you caught the virus at a organised event could you sue the organisers ?
It looks like in Washington we are transitioning to just treating this as endemic. Not sure what this means more generally, but could be we stop canceling things and return to normal life. If you’re at risk of serious illness, good luck.
https://www.evergreenhealth.com/coronavirus
Oh I see what you did there...I could say that this could be more likely in the US but don't want to be seen as America bashing.
Not likely as it's voluntary... however, on the other hand, if you were working the event and contracted it... you could easily have a worker's compensation claim of significant size and possibly a claim for hazardous working conditions. I think this is more what is leading organizers to cancel large public gatherings... well, that and it's just a good idea in general IMO.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/06/arts/music/sxsw-cancelled.html
If you caught the virus at a organised event could you sue the organisers ?
I agree. I’m also pretty shocked that the same hospital system where most of the deaths occurred would go this far out in a limb with these proclamations.Where in the world did they pluck those figures from ? It sounds completely invented from what I have seen to date.
What is the likelihood that my symptoms are an indication that I have contracted COVID-19?
As status of this virus continues to evolve across our nation, the following information is intended to provide context to the rate of infection for COVID-19:
- 1 person out of 200 people who are exposed to a COVID-19 positive individual, will become COVID-19 positive (0.5% transmission rate in the general public)
- If you are in close contact with a person who is COVID-19 positive (such as living with a person who has tested positive), your likelihood of contracting the infection is 10%
- 80% of the population may experience mild symptoms, such as fever or flu-like symptoms that they treat at home
- 15% may seek medical care, such as visiting an Urgent Care or Emergency Department
- 5% may require critical care, meaning being admitted as an inpatient
- 1.6% of confirmed cases (confirmed cases representing between 5-10% of all infections in the community) will die
- There is an incubation period of 2-14 days, meaning the period between exposure to an infection and the appearance of the first symptoms, the average case being 2-8 days
- A vaccine is estimated to be developed in about 9-12 months
Where in the world did they pluck those figures from ? It sounds completely invented from what I have seen to date.
Standard fare for cursory "experts" - look how long it took similar experts in Flint MI to stop saying there weren't any lead problems with the water supply - or at least that the problems were isolated and not a reason for concern.I agree. I’m also pretty shocked that the same hospital system where most of the deaths occurred would go this far out in a limb with these proclamations.
If accurate, perhaps it gives some cause for optimism.
Standard fare for cursory "experts" - look how long it took similar experts in Flint MI to stop saying there weren't any lead problems with the water supply - or at least that the problems were isolated and not a reason for concern.
Being facetious is not helpful either .I could say that this could be more likely in the US but don't want to be seen as America bashing.
Being facetious is not helpful either .
I was not asking for opinion on the merits of the legal system in the states just wether it could happen.
Precedent is very important in law, and I’m not aware that event hosts are liable for contagious guests. Hell, I don’t even think cruise ship companies are liable when there are norovirus outbreaks. All bets are off when there is true negligence though.Let's wait and see. Hindsight can be clarifying.
Moral [by maty]: Democratic countries have the governing that their societies deserve.
Member @Wombat you seem to have ignored my pleas for non political content .Then there was the Governor(aspiring POTUS) who wasn't pro-active, in the past, in addressing the HIV epidemic for extraneous reasons - no names please.
Yes , a bunch of schools and doctors surgeries are shut in Torquay thanks to Italy and their miss handling of this , and the Tenerife issues are Italian in origin.
It’s impossible to imagine such a cataclysm not tipping the global economy, already slowing noticeably, into recession – and a recession of a particular kind. The workdays lost to illness, the disruption to global supply chains, prohibitions on transit, the sheer numbers of the dead: All these add up to a sudden, sharp reduction in the economy’s productive capacity, much as if one were to blow up a sizable number of the world’s factories. Economists call this a “supply shock.”
We’ve been here before: The OPEC-driven spikes in the price of oil in the 1970s were another instance of a supply shock. What constrains output in these situations is not a lack of demand, but of supply. Which means attempts to remedy them by traditional demand stimulus, fiscal or monetary, are not just useless – they make things worse. Boost demand, when the problem is really a shortfall in supply, and all you do is drive up prices; think of the housing market as a micro-example.