Saturday, February 29th 2020
Game Developers Conference gets Postponed due to COVID-19 Concerns
Game Developers Conference is perhaps one of the biggest organizations in the gaming industry, covering everything from gaming hardware to games themselves. This year's GDC event was planned to happen on March 16th, however, due to the Coronavirus COVID-19 concerns, the GDC organization has decided to postpone the event. This doesn't mean that the conference will not happen at all. Instead, the GDC organizers plan to host the event sometime "later in the summer", when hopefully the COVID-19 concerns will settle. To add, Facebook also canceled its F8 Developer Conference, along with Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit which also got canceled due to virus outbreak fears.
Being that Computex is happening within three months, there are growing concerns that the event may not happen at all, however, we can hope that the situation will be resolved soon and that we can bring you live coverage of the event.
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Being that Computex is happening within three months, there are growing concerns that the event may not happen at all, however, we can hope that the situation will be resolved soon and that we can bring you live coverage of the event.
51 Comments on Game Developers Conference gets Postponed due to COVID-19 Concerns
However, the libel law issue is real, the company my partner works for has banned all travel since a few weeks ago, because of it and it's a US company in the PC peripheral business.Europe seemingly was just as careless, look at how it's spreading from Italy now.
Taiwan is one of the few countries so far that did the right thing, they blocked entry of PRC citizens almost as soon as they found out about the virus.
It seems to have been the best remedy so far.
Also, don't tell the PRC that I called Taiwan a country...
I see this a lot in Europeans in their takes on what the average American thinks, or things happening in our country that just... well, they're kind of laughable to anyone who actually lives here. Everything is really reductionist... low bit-depth images, filtered further through the lens of how people in the country writing it already see things, and the problems they're facing in their own country. And I'm sure it's the same with things that get written from the US, about European countries. Big ol grain of salt when one country writes about another. Gotta wonder about where the information comes from, let alone the intent. Remember, they aren't even there. It's an approximation of whatever the situation is, at best. News struggles to report things accurately in their home countries badly enough without trying to see across the ocean.
I mean... over here that fundamental lack of FOV/resolution was considered a big problem. We knew stuff was happening, but nobody stateside knows what's actually going on in China. But man I can tell you the news sure did reach. So much stuff was going up and being tossed out HOURS later.
My personal opinion... pretty much nobody in the world is prepared for a potential outbreak, and everyone shambled around trying to figure out what to do, or if they even should. The way we operate isn't compatible with an impending cataclysmic pandemic. It shuts everything down. That's why there is a panic. Because if something DID happen, nobody would be ready and we would all be screwed. Even if we avoid it, avoiding it undermines everything else to the point where normal lives stop being feasible and things still wind up being in jeopardy.
People freak out about them because every so often, Flu pandemics actually have wiped a lot of people out. The spanish flu pandemic was one of the worst epidemics ever seen. Many millions are estimated to have died. There are a lot of theories on what really happened with it, but it nonetheless left a mark on humanity. Any time parallels can be drawn, it's going to get spooky. I don't think this is remotely the same, but I totally understand the fears.
I've also been thinking about it in terms of another strong flu compounding health problems across a population. Even if relatively few die, the amount of people who get it and are affected by it is exponentially larger. Sometimes the effects of an event like that trickle out across a person's history. They accumulate over time. There could be another event later that would've been less likely to happen if not for ones like that happening before, even if one can't be directly tied to another. It's part of a larger sequence. Having one more thing to hit a group's immune system hard can have many subtle effects that are harder to track and deal with. People say that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. But sometimes I think it's what makes us stronger that often kills us eventually.And there are so many different ways that can happen. Immunocompromised people come in many forms, but all of those people make up a much more vulnerable part of the population. Anything that makes a significant portion of them more likely to die or suffer compound issues later is significant. The more things there are to compromise the immune system, the bigger the number of immunocompromised people becomes. It's like a cycle.
Gotta keep it in context. Depending on the groups you're looking at it's either nothing or a pretty big deal. For you or I it might be nothing but another flu going around, but that's gonna be significantly less likely depending on what group you're in. It doesn't mean those people in those groups dying at an accelerated rate isn't significant in itself. Things still have to be done to mitigate it, if possible. What people can do themselves isn't enough sometimes. The means to keep that sort of thing from happening as often are beyond individual efforts. It's all a group affair, so even if it doesn't affect you or me personally, it still matters. Beneath all the panic and sensationlism, it's still something important to be aware of and show some regard for. It's hard to know who will wind up needing to know, so it's best that everybody knows. To me that's just part of disease prevention as a whole. A better informed general populace goes a long way in getting people to the right treatments if not minimizing contact.
And Didn't CCCP or\and the government block the CDC from checking on it too.
Sorry had enough of China's government BS.
Some people have also been re-infected within ten days of being declared as recovered from it.Sure, see my comment about Taiwan above.
The PRC government tried to hide it for the first month or so, but the WHO seems to be happy with their efforts of preventing it from spreading and refuses to call it a pandemic, despite the rate it's spreading at... (Note that the CCCP was the Soviet Union, not sure what that has to do with anything.)
Try living across the South China Sea, it'll really make you fed up...
National bias is ever-present in news pieces, and that's before any left/right political interference. We judge others because they are not like us, speak like us, or behave like us but it does not make them wrong. Nor does it make them right. It is a fundamental disconnect. The greatest example is us Brits imagine we know what the Americans are like (you speak our language and dress like us) but ideoligically, we are very different. No nation is an island, they say, but really, every nation is it's own floating empire.
As for the potential pandemic; by their very nature (incubation periods of asymptomic normality), no nation can pre-empt the spread of such a viral pathogen. It has to be discovered, usually many weeks after first exposure, and by then, the outbreak has already begun.
and then when it spreads oh my god it wasn't our fault . If you are healthy and young covid wont kill you so keep doing your regular stuff eg : Travelling my too sents
Have you read any of the stories of what's actually going on in China?
The PRC government is darking a lot of things.
The crematoriums are running 24/7, they're even burning some people alive, a lot of corpses are labelled with unknown cause of death just to keep the numbers down.
Let's wait and see what happens in Korea and Italy, if the deaths are low enough there, then maybe it's not too bad, bur right now, it's way too early to say what it is or isn't.
However, I agree that there's too much paranoia, but this is largely thanks to the WHO who hasn't been truthful about what's going on as well, as the PRC has some hold on the leader of the WHO.
A lot of people are also catching it quickly again after having been declared free of the virus.
Containment is a joke. Best they can do now is slow it down. A gentleman from Japan left Honolulu via Delta on like the 7th of Feb who ended up having it. We arrived on the 8th. I imagine it was ALL over the airport by that point. I wish I could volunteer to get sick, so I can get it over with on my terms and not have my WHOLE household go down at once again. A nightmare as it is getting really sick, it's even worse when both parents and all 3 kids are sick as well. And a Grandma . And an Aunt. There's no relief.
As far as the US response - Trump has been damned if he does, damned if he doesn't from the get-go. If he closed the borders - "OMG RACIST!!!", and you see if he says, 'We're doing our best, let's not panic'; it's "OMG he's such a fool, he's not taking this seriously enough!" The media is not helping the situation in the slightest.
Obviously the PRC government doesn't want this kind of news to be reported.
www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3875039
www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3881683
I mean, what's will all the weird herring? Had a really nasty pizza when I was there a couple of weeks ago. Pseudo Asian food that's kind of meh. The list goes on...
Also, the latest rumours out of China suggests that it wasn't weird/wild animals, but rather someone selling animals that had been used for lab testing that were sold to the local market and then sold on as food, as a few people wanted to make a quick buck...
2. Sushi can be really good, but you need to go to a high-end place to eat really good sushi. One of my favourites is with halibut, lightly torched.
3. Don't mix up sushi and sashimi, the first one comes on rice, the second one is just raw slices of something.
4. In Japan, they eat chicken and horse sashimi. I've had the latter, but would't eat the first.
5. Look up balut, it's quite popular in several south east Asian countries.
That said, in China they eat a lot of much weirder things and if they don't eat it, it's "medicine". The "traditional Chinese medicine" industry has pushed a lot of wild animals to the brink of extinction, just because some idiots thinks that eating ground up animal parts will get them a bigger todger, cure cancer or make sure their first born is a boy...
And if you want to watch what some "influencers" in China do when they're hungry...
It's also in Africa, eating those Fly-Dogs and monkeys uncooked, don't know how they named in english, brought us Ebola and HIV...