<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 16, 2020, at 07:04 , Alexandre Petrescu <<a href="mailto:alexandre.petrescu@gmail.com" class="">alexandre.petrescu@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Le 16/03/2020 à 14:58, Mark Tinka a écrit :</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br class="">On 15/Mar/20 00:12, Eric M. Carroll wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">There is good news here. The infrastructure has never been better<br class="">positioned to support this kind of mass event. We can shop from home,<br class="">work from home, get groceries from home, order drugs, get<br class="">entertainment, all via IP. The ISP community needs to be ready to<br class="">respond to the magnitude of what is happening.<br class=""></blockquote>If the Internet was as large in 2003 when SARS hit as it is now in 2020<br class="">under the Coronavirus, I think we'd have seen the same issues back then.<br class=""><br class="">Nowadays, information gets around a lot faster and with more fuss and<br class="">fanfare than before. On average, by the time you see a shared video clip<br class="">on WhatsApp, you'll be receiving it from 100 other contacts inside of a<br class="">30 minutes.<br class=""><br class="">As readier as the Internet is today, part of the mega spread of the<br class="">fallout from the Coronavirus is because information is not only<br class="">traveling way faster, a lot of it is also not (necessarily) verified or<br class="">moderated before being shared with is consumers.<br class=""></blockquote><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">There is no other way to do that information filterning now. Nobody has any authority of knowing better than others.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div></div>This simply isn’t true…<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Listen to qualified medical professionals, especially those who specialize in infectious diseases and epidemiology.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The information on the CDC and WHO websites remains the primary source of trustworthy information. It may be</div><div class="">incomplete, but if someone is contradicting something there, they’re very likely to be wrong.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">OTOH, anyone selling “survive COVID” or “cure COVID” etc. is completely untrustworthy and guaranteed to be lying to</div><div class="">you in order to sell a product. Despicable, but common place.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There’s no authoritative way to get false information off the internet, so we have to combat it as best we can with good</div><div class="">information and education. Even in my own household, this is a constant battle as my GF continues to bring home</div><div class="">odd superstitious rumors and embellishments from a variety of inaccurate sources and I constantly have to correct her</div><div class="">perspective.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For up to date local information, check with the local public health authority in your jurisdiction. In the US, that will usually</div><div class="">be your county public health agency. In some cases, individual municipalities also have public health departments.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">At the very least adhere to their orders and recommendations.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Owen</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>