In case there was any confusion, I was agreeing with Hoku. Blizzard has done the responsible thing canceling Blizzcon during this pandemic.
In my country, there have been no reported infections in last few days, but itâs obvious someone must be lying through their teeth to score political points. We are having a general election in about a month and suddenly no one seems to be concerned over another outbreak whilst several weeks ago they were calling people breaking isolation acts of terrorism.
Compared to the population density in the US, itâs the only thing in our favour since we are just as irresponsible and dumb. If this occurs again at the peak of tourist season, we may not be able to take care for our own citizens, let alone hundreds of thousands from the rest of EU.
Lets stop pretending as if the cancellation of the event is anything else than a financial decision from the top. Even with how a certain president is threatening to pull the GOP convention out of NC because they may not be allowed to fill the venue to the brim, itâs clear no one in power cares for the well being of a common man.
I mean seriously, the country has been experiencing a 9/11 everyday for the past two months and yet someone is upset over a game convention? Maybe if the disease were assigned a more adequate name such as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, it could have instilled fear into people.
edit: remember how their first Blizzcon update was worded - that it might not be feasible
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This is called a 
grab. They have nothing new to introduce, and nothing to be excited about. The reality last years blizzcon was horrible, nothing really new introduced HOTS relegated to the very far back of the queue and both HOTS and Starcraft both got single line mentions in the Keynote address last year. How do you celebrate and extoll an empty bucket.
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I dunno man, donât you guys have phones?
God, that will never not be my favourite dumb foot in mouth moment. God, I hope his shoe tasted good because lordy lordy he put it in his mouth reeeeal good.
Maybe the break is better, though, given this situation: now their next Blizzcon will have this much more time to amass content to show off and hype up.
Letâs pay Blizz 100 US $ for a virtual, virtual Blizzcon E ticket!
Seriously, they are much better than other companies who wonât cancel events to stop people dying, give them some props.
This whole thread is the definition of redundant.
Hey, you can buy the ticket⌠on your phone. Donât you guys ha-- okayokay, enough out of me.
Yes, thank the Lord Blizz was smart enough to realize they should also be sticking to the rules because youâre totally right, not everyone did or does.
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So are they refunding Blizzcon tickets no questions asked?
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Not like they have anything good to show off. Wow is broken beyond repair, no one cares about diablo immortal, overwatch 2 is just gonna be overwatch 1 and heroes is a dead game.
But i am sure they can show off call of duty!
Holy shiz I thought you were bad but this just verifies how bad you are.
The problem is not only how many people get sick. Itâs how many people get sick at once.
Itâs a pandemic because it can overload the healthcare system until we get it under control, which means hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of people could die that we could save just by basic quarantine procedures.
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Thereâs nothing wrong about advocating for at risk people to form their own community or country. Itâs actually in their best interests
And the lockdown worked âtoo wellâ in some areas. If too few people get sick, then the curve didnât really get flattened at all. When states reopen (like they are starting to now by loosening restrictions) itâs just going to infect the majority of people who didnât get sick
The only real solution is to wait until a verified vaccine is made and distributed. That could take years
You went from bad to worse, now I am legitimately concerned that you are a troll.
Vaccines should not be optional for the whole, quarantine is not optional for the whole. You are suggesting people should die, or cause others to die.
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Again, I said I donât condone but I donât force. Iâm neutral. If you wanna pull a social justice stance and say not helping means youâre the enemy, then thatâs your choice to label me as so.
I am vaccinated and encourage others to get vaccinated but I am also realistic in that you canât force others to do things. If your child isnât vaccinated then theyâre allowed to do that, but then they have to be homeschooled.
Youâre making me out to be the bad guy because Iâm not in panic mode/ not overly worried
This late into the lockdown there is growing unemployment. Unemployment means even after the lockdown is over youâre too poor to afford food and other necessities. We need to judge whether opening up would save more people in the long term than continuing the lockdown harshly. Of course weâre still encouraged to remain socially isolated.
Btw, I never said vaccines were optional until this post. I just said I treat the pandemic like the flu and then everyone blew my statement out of proportion saying this is not a flu, very contagious, no vaccine yet⌠I said nothing about my beliefs on forced vaccination
If youâre going off of me treating it like the flu, and flu shots are optional, then I guess you could draw that conclusion. Even if the vaccine for the virus is made, you still canât force people to get vaccinated and I stand by that. Peer pressure and strong encouragement should be used, but literally holding someone down and forcing them to get vaccinated against their will isnât happening. At most youâd get a student canât return to grade school because they didnât get vaccinated for the virus
What youâre suggesting is a method to get everyone vaccinated and confirmed following quarantine orders. A way to ensure that would be a militaristic method to get everyone vaccinated and quarantined. Imagine the military enforcing the stay at home orders and making sure everyone got vaccinated. Thatâd be terrifying and a whole new level of government control over its citizens
no one really needs to try to pull anything when you start saying stuff like that. i mean you can think you are neutral all you want, but you sure arent. you want to basically exile everyone who is âat riskâ.
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Itâs their choice whether or not they move to that area. If at risk people (as some people in this thread stated they are) feel safer for being with other at risk people who assumably take more precautions, then all of them are free to live in a designed area
I am in the position of neutral. Being pro-virus would be encouraging others to disregard social distancing, not wearing a mask out of my own free will, and doing all I can to make others sick. I donât. I just donât force others to conform and it seems to you guys being not panicked and not forcing others to conform to the safety guidelines makes me not neutral
I just made a suggestion that at risk people form their own areas of safety. No need to blow it out of proportion
Iâve told a lot of my friends about a month ago to expect that most conventions, large meetups, etc would almost certainly be canceled up until at LEAST late october. This is just proving me right. It makes sense at least, even if this pandemic starts to ease up, you probably arenât going to have Health Professionals recommending people be fine with large conventions and mass get togethers. Much less those organized by companies like Blizzard where they could be held liable for housing such a convention and either face legal consequence or an even further blow to the companyâs reputation.
It makes more sense to cancel these events now than at a time when people would be booking flights, hotels, etc.
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Itâs a good thing theyâre not. The pandemic is still going on and itâs better to be safe.
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and it might take exactly 1 year for the vaccine to be ready as theyâre working on it on few countries hopefully the horror ends in 2021
AND there is a far higher risk of complications that could cause severe permanent harm even if you recover.
SARS-Cov-2 (the virus itself which causes the disease called Covid19) is known to attack not just your respiratory system, but also parts of the rest of the vascular system (which has been linked to strokes and heart failure), the digestive system (specifically the kidneys and liver), and even the nervous system (though it is unsure whether the virus actually attacks nerve cells directly or if its other side-effects like immune exhaustion and severe dehydration cause a cascade leading to nerve damage).
IIRC, early research showed that something like 5% of all people infected with it recover but have lasting medical conditions afterwards, even if minor.
It absolutely disgusts me how many people are more concerned with getting a haircut or eating out or going to a concert than they are about protecting themselves and their family, let alone their friends or complete strangers.
Iâd say, âJust let Darwin have his way!â but I know these people arenât just hurting themselves with their stupidity, theyâre hurting others.
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