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COVID-19 notes in "About"

Started by Private User on Wednesday, March 25, 2020
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(Full disclosure: I'm not collaborating on this project, but I do curate and/or manage some profiles in it.)

I'm noticing lines about COVID-19 diagnoses being added to all of the MPs in both this project and its "Heroes" counterpart.

If someone is *best* known for having contracted or tried to help with the virus, I think those additions make complete sense. Keep it up! But for public figures known for their careers or other things, I think this is disproportionate emphasis, especially in otherwise brief bios.

Would you consider only adding those virus notes if the person is truly known for it? For everyone else, the fact that they're in the project should be enough for users to know the person had it.

If you do decide that it needs to be included in every "About," would you perhaps at least agree to decrease the emphasis to a proportionate level? There's no reason, for example, to put someone's diagnosis or their humanitarian work fighting the virus above or at the beginning of their regular bio.

Thank you for all your hard work with this tree-building effort!

I agree.

Also, I think it’d be great if we all fill out the current residence, so we can have a sense where they are from when looking at the list of profiles.

I'm inclined to agree... I haven't checked the profile for Prince Charles but would think it would be enough for him to be included on the project (as a person who has contracted Covid 19) but I don't think anything needs to be added to the profile about me regarding this.

I edited out the phrase in the project “about” suggesting it.

There are a few cases where I think it would be useful, for instance, when we’re quoting from a comment the person made about the dx / illness. But hopefully it’s just a item in a long life, and doesn’t define the person.

https://abc13.com/maurice-%27termite%27-watkins-covid-19-boxer-hous... a news report when he was first in the hospital.

My very good friend of mine, well-known Championship Boxer, I've known since the age 10yrs old, we grew up together. He attends the church with my son Fred Burmeister III, his father Fred Burmeister II, and step-mother Gale Annette Burmeister as well. They all contracted COVID-19. He wasn't expected to live, he has severe COPD from working in his family exterminating business starting at a young age. He was on life support in ICU for a month A miracle he lived, he was released from the hospital on Tuesday. Houston, Texas continues to climb in numbers of COVID-19 active cases, but our death rate is low versus the number of active cases. We have excellent medical care and wonderful volunteer healthcare doctors and workers. No one works with COVID-19 patients unless they volunteer to do so. I have cared for my son for over one month, blood testing proved this week I have no antibodies for COVID-19 and have no active COVID-19, my son's testing shows he is still active and contagious COVID-19.

Termite Watkins retired from the Boxing Ring but for years has worked with gang intercity children turning their lives around, his mission on Earth is not over!

A happy story for you all

Thank you, Suzan.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Closing the Bar's today- Texas had a spike in COVID-19 cases and the hospitals are filling up with patients age 30s- too many people actually thought COVID-19 was over, became too relaxed, not following guidelines- https://www.click2houston.com/news/texas/2020/06/26/gov-abbott-issu...

I noticed in Magnolia, TX during Mother's Day, no one was wearing Face Mask, the servers in the Restaurant's, the grocery stores, I was the only one wearing one. In Houston, Harris County, where I live, about 99% wear face mask. I don't care what everyone else does around me, I make my own decisions after reading CDC guidelines.

Stay safe, please. It’s nowhere near over.

It is now 12-2022 and still people are dying from Covid-19 naming it the Covid virus of 2019 is a bit strange. The first persons died in 2020, but 2021, 2022 the COVID-19 is still making deaths. I hope in 2023 nobody dies from it, but that is a hope.

Just bumping this up as a gentle reminder that if you come across one of these old news blurbs in the "About" on an MP, please remove it.

I'm still periodically finding MPs where there's more content about someone's brief viral infection three years ago than there is about their decades-long career. :)

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