<div dir="ltr"><div>Oops, spoke too soon. King County Public Health is now advising community groups that "If you can feasibly avoid bringing large groups of people together, consider postponing events and gatherings." -- <a href="https://www.kingcounty.gov/depts/health/communicable-diseases/disease-control/novel-coronavirus/protection.aspx">https://www.kingcounty.gov/depts/health/communicable-diseases/disease-control/novel-coronavirus/protection.aspx</a></div><div><br></div><div>Dow Constantine, in today's press conference, clarified that the rule of thumb for "large groups" is more than ten people. Out of an abundance of caution, I think it's best to cancel Slower Than Dirt this month. My apologies for the announcement this morning; I probably should have waited until after today's press conference.</div><div><br></div><div>I'll update Facebook and the web site to reflect the cancellation, and hopefully things will have stabilized for April.</div><div><br></div><div>--Josh<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 10:30 AM Slower Than Dirt Jam Announcements via Jam-discuss <<a href="mailto:jam-discuss@lists.slowerthandirt.org">jam-discuss@lists.slowerthandirt.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div id="gmail-m_-6525530941631636106gmail-home_widget_1">
<div id="gmail-m_-6525530941631636106gmail-text-2"><div id="gmail-m_-6525530941631636106gmail-widget-title-one"><h3><span style="font-weight:normal">I'll be keeping an eye on recommendations from the city and county on whether to cancel non-critical meetings if the coronavirus outbreak worsens, but at the moment I'm still planning on having a Slower Than Dirt jam this month. Assuming it happens, here are the details:</span><br>
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