On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 8:42 AM Davey Song <songlinjian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
What I can do to help the situation as a Chinese IETFer, is to cancel all travel and stay at home....Thanks to the Internet, I can participate IETF remotely. Good luck!Davey
Exactly. The point I am not seeing raised here is whether it is a good idea to hold an international meeting and potentially spread the virus further. This is not just about us.
This may not turn out to be a re-run of SARS. A large amount of the infrastructure that existed to deal with pandemics has been shuttered since. The way our political elites manage risk is to observe when disaster has been avoided and conclude that this shows the controls intended to mitigate those risks were unnecessary.
A question that we may well have to consider is the possibility that Madrid is cancelled by government fiat. We are currently in the complacency phase, what will follow if matters continue is panic.
