Cancellation of March Events

[Henry Quinn]

Hey all!

We are taking an abundance of caution, given everything going on with COVID-19, and pulling the rest of March’s events off the calendar.

We obviously want y’all to have events where you can unwind and talk about tech, but we’d rather have you temporarily annoyed and safe than potentially getting each other really sick.

We’re also investigating more online meeting options (in case that’s something y’all are into and want) and will keep an eye on how things progress to make a decision on what to do for April at the end of this month.

In the meantime, the party will continue on Slack (link to join at https://newhaven.io), so keep the conversations going! Help each other learn, solve technology problems, and connect folks with like minds who don’t know each other yet.

I also wouldn’t feel right if I didn’t say that we encourage you all to follow the advice coming from the CDC and WHO about how to stay safe when you venture out of your homes so that we, as a broader community, can get through this as quickly and safely as possible.

In the meantime, though, please keep checking in here on Slack and let any board member know if you have questions or concerns.

- IO Organizing Team

[Greg Grinberg]

Hey Henry,

I want to say in public: you rock for doing the right thing.

I think most if not all of us are in age brackets whose odds of survival after infection approach unity. But we all have grandparents, older friends, friends (or friends of friends) who work in nursing homes and hospitals, etc. The less we interact with one another in person, the less chance we have of being a direct or indirect disease vector. It’s a classic problem of agency-utility mismatch: those with the most to lose have the least ability to determine what happens, and we — those who will most probably all be ok in the long run no matter what — hold all the cards. Thanks for taking a stand for playing them right.

Theoretically a serum treatment could become available in as soon as a few weeks — here’s hoping that happens. In the meantime all, adding to what Henry said, eat your vegetables, lay off the processed sugars and saturated fats, get plenty of sleep, ... — i.e., all the things to keep your immune system in top shape.

All the best,

Greg

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