[OFF TOPIC] Coronavirus Pandemic

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No one knows how safe it is to still have sports events on going during the time of pandemic. As we all know cases are rising on daily basis and yet tournamets are all still on going.

 

Referring to this news we have players who are positive covid yet still allowed to play on in tournaments.

 

https://bwfworldtour.bwfbadminton.com/news-single/2021/01/12/update-on-positive-covid-19-cases-at-asian-leg-of-hsbc-bwf-world-tour/

 

Badminton World Federation (BWF) and Badminton Association of Thailand (BAT) can confirm three of the four players who tested positive for COVID-19 earlier today at the Asian Leg of the HSBC BWF World Tour have been cleared to take their place in the YONEX Thailand Open.

 

They are confirmed as Saina Nehwal (India), HS Prannoy (India), and Jones Ralfy Jansen (Germany).

 

The fourth player, Adham Hatem Elgamal from Egypt, has been withdrawn.

 

Only 1 player withdrawn from the tournament while the other 3 players allowed to play as usual.

 

Strange part here is all the other players within the same team are close contacts of those players during the tournament and all the players within the same team are allowed to play as normal which is definitely risking the life of other players from other countries.

 

The outcome of this is the opponent who had to play with Saina Nehwal in the first round of the tournament wear face mask all the time while playing. So horrible.

 

 

 

Within the same week this is what happened after that.

 

https://bwfworldtour.bwfbadminton.com/news-single/2021/01/13/bwf-confirms-two-support-personnel-positive-for-covid-19/

 

Badminton World Federation (BWF) can confirm that one German coach and a team entourage member from France who are participating in the YONEX Thailand Open as part of the Asian Leg of the HSBC BWF World Tour in Bangkok, Thailand are positive for COVID-19.

 

Both produced a positive result to a mandatory PCR test conducted on Tuesday.

 

Coaches from German and France found to be positive covid. Yet all the players from German and France allowed to play in the tournament just as usual. So horrible. They forgot that the coaches are always together with the players and all the players might have been infected from their coaches.

 

This resulted in the withdrawal of the Mixed Doubles player from Hong Kong in the second round. Tang Chun Man / Tze Ying Suet withdrawn staged a walkover and refused to play in the second round because they need to play versus the German XD player who is close contacts to their coach who is positive covid.

 

 

This is what happened the next week.

 

https://bwfworldtour.bwfbadminton.com/news-single/2021/01/19/bwf-confirms-positive-covid-19-case-at-toyota-thailand-open/

 

Badminton World Federation (BWF) can confirm India player Sai Praneeth B. has tested positive for COVID-19 and has been withdrawn from the TOYOTA Thailand Open.

 

The player produced a positive result to a mandatory PCR test conducted on Monday. It is confirmed positive.

 

 

The player has been taken to hospital for further observation and testing, and is required to stay in hospital for a minimum of 10 days.

 

BWF can also confirm Sai Praneeth B. had been rooming with teammate Kidambi Srikanth at the official hotel. In line with BWF protocols, Kidambi has been withdrawn from the TOYOTA Thailand Open and is in strict self-quarantine. However, Kidambi tested negative on Monday’s test and has returned negative results since arriving in Thailand.

 

 

 

As a result of this Sai Praneeth is no longer allowed to play but his room mate Srikanth has been told to go for self quarantine. Then this week Srikanth is allowed to play in BWF World Tour Finals. So here is the main issue now. Srikanth may have probably been infected with the virus without himself knowing it since he is staying in the same room with someone who is positive covid. Yet he is allowed to play on.

 

 

 

Conclusion:

 

To have tournaments during pandemic time is really like a joke as it is risking the life of all the athletes from various different countries. Players who are found to be positive covid or have close contacts to positive covid players and coaches are still allowed to play on. By right all the players from India, German, France and Egypt should be banned and not allowed to play but this is not happening. Looks like the tournament organizer is a failure here to allow the players from the country with positive covid cases in the tournament to continue playing. In the end it risks the life of so many players from other countries.

 

Question:

 

Is it safe to have tournaments during pandemic time?

 

What is the answer?

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The danger is always there. Once an athletes have been tested as positive covid they must not be allowed to continue playing in tournaments. At the same time players from the same country and team in the tournament are all also very dangerous despite tested negative because this virus have an incubation period of 14 days. They may not be showing the symptoms now but in within 14 days they could be positive covid. By allowing players from the team with positive covid players is just like asking for more trouble because virus could spread on to other players from other countries. So it is very dangerous here. So if coaches or players from the team have been found to be positive covid, the rest of the other players from the same team must not be allowed to play on for the safety of the players from other countries. Yes of course during tournament time it is certainly not nice to see so many walkovers and players not playing.

 

 

Question:

 

1. Should players who have close contacts with positive covid team mates be allowed to play on in order to avoid walkover?

 

2. Should we allow players who are positive covid to play on and ignore the safely of the other players?

[dcro 10,210]

Pfizer and Moderna have started cutting back on our weekly deliveries (as if they were big enough to begin with). At this point, all new deliveries are set to be the second doses for already vaccinated and nothing else.

 

Astra-Zeneca, meanwhile, is still not approved by the EU, despite continuous assurances that it would happen before January is over.

 

So yeah, this thing will not be blowing over any time soon. This puts extra strain on the Olympics as well, as I doubt it's any different in other countries.

[heywoodu 15,174]

I believe there's around 170k people vaccinated here (the first time, at least), 75% of the vaccines are still waiting in freezers. Not sure, but I think laying around in a freezer is not how the vaccine protects people  

 

Meanwhile Germany and Austria are obligating a higher level of masks, so it's only a matter of time for that to happen in other countries as well (and they are freaking expensive). Here in the Netherlands there's some 'protests' against the curfew, which is the nice word for criminal youth rioting in many places because they've got nothing to do with their lives and see an opportunity to destroy property, as per usual with these kind of things.

[Agger 1,663]

1 hour ago, dcro said:

Pfizer and Moderna have started cutting back on our weekly deliveries (as if they were big enough to begin with). At this point, all new deliveries are set to be the second doses for already vaccinated and nothing else.

 

Astra-Zeneca, meanwhile, is still not approved by the EU, despite continuous assurances that it would happen before January is over.

 

So yeah, this thing will not be blowing over any time soon. This puts extra strain on the Olympics as well, as I doubt it's any different in other countries.

EMA has made it very clear from the start of the proces that they expect to give their opinion on the 29th, so no worries there. 

 

Haven't heard anything about Moderna, though? The numbers expected in Denmark haven't been changed.

[dcro 10,210]

9 minutes ago, Agger said:

Haven't heard anything about Moderna, though? The numbers expected in Denmark haven't been changed.

Apparently the new deliveries are incresingly coming behind the schedule.

[rybak 3,222]

The oldest living Polish person (111yo man) received first dose of vaccine today.

 

 

[Agger 1,663]

As expected EMA has now recommended approval of AstraZeneca. This could mean that it will start rolling out next week, though at a smaller rate than hoped.

Meanwhile Novavax and Johnson&Johnson have announced their test results. Hopes are that Johnson & Johnson will seek approval in february. Novavax is more unclear as EU are yet to make a deal with them, though negotiations have been going on.

A 3rd vaccine that could end up in EU is the Russian Sputnik V who do have ongoing talks with EMA and could also file for approval in february. They've already been approved by Hungary and state that they could be able to send 100 million doses to EU in the 2nd quarter of the year. 

[hckošice 14,899]

so our governement formally approved Ivermectin for Treatment for COVID-19 Patients. Apparently as the first EU nation

 

https://trialsitenews.com/slovakia-becomes-the-first-eu-nation-to-formally-approve-ivermectin-for-both-prophylaxis-and-treatment-for-covid-19-patients/

[rybak 3,222]

On 05/01/2021 at 19:40, rybak said:

Today after almost two months of battle my grandmother returned to home because she feel enough that could leave hospital and doesn't need help from doctors anymore, she can now recover in home, although her lungs are destroyed and she probably will never return to be fully healthy as before corona. But at least she can be in her own house around close ones than in hospital and doctors. 

If someone is interested, my grandmother leave this world tonight... Despite being in home and feeling better three days ago she had suddenly problems with breathing, was moved to hospital, yesterday she feels better that even was able to talk and tonight happened what happened