Trying to stay out of this discussion, not wanting to add noise, but... On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 04:31:33PM +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote: > >A 2nd wave isn't what happens with any epidemics, and there's absolutely >no sign that the covid19 is any different. The 2nd wave thing is just >words from governments trying to scare the population so that everyone >keeps having a responsible attitude.
This is categorically wrong. Just google for "spanish flu second wave", for an obvious counter-example. > >Though, even knowing that, we still need only a single person to get >everyone sick in a conference. And that person doesn't need to be one >attendee directly, it can be just one traveling in the same plane of >that attendee. > >Multiply the number of attendee by the number of people in each plane, >and rapidly, the figures are going by the thousands of people which >needs to be virus-free so that the conference is safe to attend. > >Even if that's at the end of the epidemic event, that's still IMO high >risk, knowing that we're all from a very different place in the world. Agreed. > -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] "... the premise [is] that privacy is about hiding a wrong. It's not. Privacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect." -- Bruce Schneier
