COVID-19 vs. our Networks

Mon Mar 16 19:08:10 UTC 2020

> On Mar 16, 2020, at 07:04 , Alexandre Petrescu <alexandre.petrescu at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Le 16/03/2020 à 14:58, Mark Tinka a écrit :
>> 
>> On 15/Mar/20 00:12, Eric M. Carroll wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> There is good news here. The infrastructure has never been better
>>> positioned to support this kind of mass event. We can shop from home,
>>> work from home, get groceries from home, order drugs, get
>>> entertainment, all via IP. The ISP community needs to be ready to
>>> respond to the magnitude of what is happening.
>> If the Internet was as large in 2003 when SARS hit as it is now in 2020
>> under the Coronavirus, I think we'd have seen the same issues back then.
>> 
>> Nowadays, information gets around a lot faster and with more fuss and
>> fanfare than before. On average, by the time you see a shared video clip
>> on WhatsApp, you'll be receiving it from 100 other contacts inside of a
>> 30 minutes.
>> 
>> As readier as the Internet is today, part of the mega spread of the
>> fallout from the Coronavirus is because information is not only
>> traveling way faster, a lot of it is also not (necessarily) verified or
>> moderated before being shared with is consumers.
> 
> 
> There is no other way to do that information filterning now. Nobody has any authority of knowing better than others.

This simply isn’t true…

Listen to qualified medical professionals, especially those who specialize in infectious diseases and epidemiology.

The information on the CDC and WHO websites remains the primary source of trustworthy information. It may be
incomplete, but if someone is contradicting something there, they’re very likely to be wrong.

OTOH, anyone selling “survive COVID” or “cure COVID” etc. is completely untrustworthy and guaranteed to be lying to
you in order to sell a product. Despicable, but common place.

There’s no authoritative way to get false information off the internet, so we have to combat it as best we can with good
information and education. Even in my own household, this is a constant battle as my GF continues to bring home
odd superstitious rumors and embellishments from a variety of inaccurate sources and I constantly have to correct her
perspective.

For up to date local information, check with the local public health authority in your jurisdiction. In the US, that will usually
be your county public health agency. In some cases, individual municipalities also have public health departments.

At the very least adhere to their orders and recommendations.

Owen

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