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Topic: [NEWS] COVID-19 Hits Ethereum Community Conference, Six People Test Positive - page 2. (Read 591 times)

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For me its not wise to attend a conference like that.It gathered by many people which you dont know, they might infect the others unknowingly.Follow the rules or as much as possible,stay at homenfor the mean time.Practice discipline.
sr. member
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They should have known that coming to the conference was more likely to have a covid-19 virus. The organizer canceled this event for the safety and comfort of everyone involved. And also they do not know anyone who has been infected with the virus so that it eventually spread to several people, I hope this all passes soon and things get better like everything.
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In that time I think France was already implementing precautionary measures and guidelines about the covid-19, especially in Paris its capital of France so it should be strictly implementing the guidelines regarding the mass gatherings and events and those attendees in that conference should voluntarily quarantine themselves to prevent more covid 19 transmissions. stay safe folks.
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However, do you want the untested vaccine experimented first on your family or community as the test guinea pigs? I reckon Japan should test their new vaccine on their own citizens before declaring them safe from damaging side effects.
Imagine if your family is on a stage where the sickness due to covid is dangerous already and he/she are running out of time? As a family member that have a mind to only save your love ones, wouldnt you agree? If some authority and sector says its already proven effective. Not that its only dangerous but in a matter of life and death, the best move is to do anything to make them safe by trying the best thing we can do. I get your point but it will depend on the situation. If its you. I know you cant tell also if the one on the blink of death is your family.
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OMG, that's really sad to hear and I would say this is purely carelessness. It was declared global pandemic and people just take it as a casual news and going forward for such things is unacceptable...

Corona is a very serious disease which spreads extremely faster, at this situation every one need to take responsibility and take care of ourselves that's the reason they say to avoid public gathering. Please try avoiding such stuff for a good cause also I pray every one should recover get well soon guys...
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The first cases of coronavirus were detected in France at the end of January, as was reported at the time. This is an article that proves it.
https://scitechdaily.com/three-cases-of-novel-coronavirus-reported-in-france-virus-recently-emerged-in-china/

Public health problems are the responsibility of governments and the presidents of nations must act quickly in an emergency as we are seeing it.
What I can see is that the government of France and Italy did not take the necessary measures to prevent the spread.

Recently, doctors from Wuhan who have gone to Italy have expressed "I don't know what they think" to see some citizens circulating on the street without masks, there are still people using public transport, and there are commercial activities.

And about the Ethereum Conference that was held in the first weeks of March, it was definitely negligence for not taking the Coronavirus issue carefully.
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Those with symptoms are advised to self-isolate and get themselves tested.
Not only those people who already have early symptoms of covid 19, but also all the people he interacted with and all the people who interacted by those people as well. That's a tough work to do, it is very hard to trace all the people contacted by those 6 positive cases but that's the best solution to avoid worse scenario Sad.
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It might be years for a commercially good vaccine that has very minimum side effects. I reckon that the companies that create them would sell the first batches of commercial coronavirus vaccines on 3rd world countries and use their people as the test guinea pigs.
Side effect is the least thing scientist would be prioritized here but fastracking a vaccine should be the goal. There is a vaccine that tested already made by Japan and China recognized its effectivity. Japanese Made vaccines it also state that they got approval from the Government  to have mass production. I just hope the vaccine will be shared and spread around those big fatality countries soon.

However, do you want the untested vaccine experimented first on your family or community as the test guinea pigs? I reckon Japan should test their new vaccine on their own citizens before declaring them safe from damaging side effects.

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I don't know why there are still high number of educated illiterate in the space, with all the information and warnings about Corona Virus, some people feel they can beat it. There is a reason why social distancing is encourage and a real means of preventing the spread. Wishing those that have contacted the Virus complete recovery
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Hi Crypto Friends :)
As it is, some of those who were infected would have gone out of the conference, to unknowing spread it to people on the outside or those that by accident come in contact with them. If another gathering that was supposed to be held in this period had been halted, I think they too should have done that, to avoid such occurrence. It is never a good thing on their part.
Also, I think both the organizers and individuals that went for the conference, should have thought of it before going.

Ouch for them, I really hope they get better soon. I would imagine that considering they went to the conference and there were most likely a lot of people in their vicinity, the virus probably spread to many more than 6 people. I read a while back that the virus does have an incubation period (similar to a lot of other infections), so i'm pretty sure with testing there should be a lot more cases.
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As it is, some of those who were infected would have gone out of the conference, to unknowing spread it to people on the outside or those that by accident come in contact with them. If another gathering that was supposed to be held in this period had been halted, I think they too should have done that, to avoid such occurrence. It is never a good thing on their part.
Also, I think both the organizers and individuals that went for the conference, should have thought of it before going.
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Corona virus causes a lot of delays and causes a lot of losses in almost all fields. and March 2020 becomes a red month for the development of crypto in the year which is expected to be bull. Many crypto users who leave work because of anxiety and worry about the spread of the corona virus. holding such a conference is also a dangerous act that is prohibited by the local central government. because this March must be a month of isolation for all walks of life to cut the development and spread of the corona virus.
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This is very irresponsible of the conference organizers and the Parisian Ethereum community. It might have been ok to give them excuse if the conference was on January or February. However, on March, it is a certainty that all conferences and mass gatherings should be declared dangerous.



Users are reporting that they are testing positive for COVID-19 after attending the Ethereum Community Conference. The conference, held in Paris between March 3 through March 5, had a sizable crowd in attendance. Those with symptoms are advised to self-isolate and get themselves tested.

Read in full https://beincrypto.com/covid-19-hits-ethereum-community-conference-six-people-test-positive/

Quick recovery to all the pandemic coronavirus patient out there, I just wish the pandemic COVID19 ends ASAP, it's causing a global crisis as more and more global activities are getting shut down on daily basis. I think everyone have seen enough to avoid any form gathering and most of the countries have putten bans on activities that requires gatherings

Stay safe guys, and take care of yourselves always......
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In the midst of a coronavirus outbreak, I don't think it would be wise to hold a conference that was attended by many people because it could speed up corona transmission. Nowadays technology is sophisticated and can use the internet to conduct conferences and in my opinion this is safer.
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This is exactly the thinking everyone should had but didn't, that is the big problem. This is like reverse climate change right now. Normally on climate change we tell the rich old folks that we should do something about it, and yet they vote for the people who will do nothing about it and even give tax breaks and subsidize to oil companies to ruin the earth more. Why? Because they won't have to live with it but we will. So, the old basically screwed the young there.

Now, here young people say they won't be as bad as old people, they won't die most probably, they will have a SEVERE case of flu but they will live, however old people die like crazy right now, so it is totally opposite of climate change deal. We should not only care if we will die or not from corona, we should care about if we will get more people infected or not, you may not die from it but someone you infected could die from it.
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It might be years for a commercially good vaccine that has very minimum side effects. I reckon that the companies that create them would sell the first batches of commercial coronavirus vaccines on 3rd world countries and use their people as the test guinea pigs.
Side effect is the least thing scientist would be prioritized here but fastracking a vaccine should be the goal. There is a vaccine that tested already made by Japan and China recognized its effectivity. Japanese Made vaccines it also state that they got approval from the Government  to have mass production. I just hope the vaccine will be shared and spread around those big fatality countries soon.
legendary
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This is the height of carelessness, both the invitee and the invited... This is not a period to gather for functions, meetings or party. What needed to be discussed there that can't be postponed till when the crises is over. Anyway, the deed is done, those with symptoms should self isolate, test and try possible treatments. BTW, I hope this will not be a problem with ethereum market..

Possible treatment is their immune system if they have a very good immune system and they don't have underlying illness, even if there are 50 or 60 years old that can still recover, the virus is only devastating for people with weal immune system I have read one artclewhere one over 70 years able to recover, just need faith and a strong immune system.
legendary
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@bitgolden. It is also the community members' fault for attending. I reckon that the younger ones of them might think that it would be ok to catch the coronavirus because they will recover from it. However, their selfishness will cause them to be contagious to the older and weaker people around them.

This is a testament that mass gatherings are really not advisable in these days. They thought that they can take care of themselves, but the problem is when they infect other people. And it continues to infect others. And the major problem right now, is that the vaccine is still in trial condition. We don't know how many months do we need to wait before they release it commercially. And by that time, a lot of people are already infected.

It might be years for a commercially good vaccine that has very minimum side effects. I reckon that the companies that create them would sell the first batches of commercial coronavirus vaccines on 3rd world countries and use their people as the test guinea pigs.
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This is the height of carelessness, both the invitee and the invited... This is not a period to gather for functions, meetings or party. What needed to be discussed there that can't be postponed till when the crises is over. Anyway, the deed is done, those with symptoms should self isolate, test and try possible treatments. BTW, I hope this will not be a problem with ethereum market..
This is really a wrong move for the organizers of the said conference as this moment mass gatherings are clearly discouraged due to the fast and widely spread of corona virus. I just hope those who have start to feel the symptoms of covid 19 should be responsible enough to make a self- quarantine for 14 days so they can no longer affect other people.
sr. member
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This can turn out to be the worst if the ones who are tested positive attended those conference. Corona virus gets spread much easily in crowd and it could almost cover the entire crowd. It takes 14 to 20 days for the symptoms to show and till that time the virus can spread much wider. This could turn out to be the worst as each and every attendee from the conference might interact with at least 500 persons and it can turn out to be an epidemic.

In my country, this virus is spread out because of the nations visiting other nations like Dubai, USA, China, etc returned home country and this virus started spreading its roots too quickly by infected close ones and the chain started from there. The worst case is that there is no vaccine for such virus.
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