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Thomas Lord |
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latest in event cancellation |
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Sun, 08 Mar 2020 18:40:33 -0700 |
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MIT has temporarily required that all campus events with 150 or more in
attendance be cancelled, postponed, or "virtualized".
If I were among the libreplanet organizers, I would be trying to
persuade my fellow organizers that they should not proceed as currently
planned.
Related: Stanford has ordered that in-person classes not be held
through the rest of the academic quarter. Columbia has canceled
classes for a week and then will resume them in virtual form.
San Francisco has ordered that no "inessential" events with more than
50 in attendance be held in any city-owned property and expressed that
this is meant to be a model for all private venue operators in the
city. This is a very serious step that implies, for example, movie
theaters and nightclubs ought to shut down if they want to voluntarily
comply. Emergency legislation is being pushed through to, among
other things, put a moratorium on evictions for tenants directly and
indirectly impacted by the virus. So for example, with hotel
attendance far down, many workers will struggle to pay rent and bills
and thus risk eviction.
Epidemiologists are projecting that on our current trajectory, the
capacity of acute care medical facilities will be overwhelmed within
the next few months. In San Francisco, for example, one major hospital
has been rehearsing how to put up acute care medical quonset-style
tents in its parking lots.
The way we can lesson the society wide impacts of the epidemic include
a period of social distancing in addition to all the handwashing and so
on.
-t
- latest in event cancellation,
Thomas Lord <=