Microsoft and EPIC canceling their GDC attendance due to Corona

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The_Liquid_Laser said:

Mar1217 said:
A virus similar to the flu which isn't insanely more killer than it's original counterpart. Yet I'm pretty sure if you take the usual precaution you probably wouldn't get the infection anyway.

The real unluckiness of this situation is that the virus has progaged itself during the worst time of the year, winter, within one of the most populated country.

Media crisis and social sites are only going to exacerbate the situation even though we're far from looking at the black plague or the Spanish flu in terms of danger.

(As long as it doesn't mutate though)

1) You are right that it isn't nearly as bad as the black plague or can it get anything close to that.

2) Coronavirus is actually much more deadly that the flu though.

It's somewhere in between the flu and the black plague.  There is a lot of room in between those things.

The flu is worse than Corona Virus. Well, in terms of sheer number of deaths per year, anyway.

https://www.livescience.com/new-coronavirus-compare-with-flu.html