Vic Liu

The term "group immunity" is introduced by Boris in Chinese media. And the media interpret it as first 60%-70% people infected and then gradually stop spread by huge amounts of antibody. If I understand it correctly, those vulnerable are already dead during this process, only those strong enough are left, more like an evolution process. On the other hand, during this process say 50% people infected with 15% are in critical condition, that means 7.5% population or 5 million people in UK need beds and medics. It's obviously over capacity. Can't imagine the picture like that. So based on the interpretation above, Chinese media criticize countries trying to adopt "group immunity” are irresponsible and cruel. I am sure if I am misled by media and also I am curious about foreigners' opinion on it.

Very clear and presentable. Love your work. But still I have a question, I am not sure if this situation should be considered. Let me take CHN as an example, it's the team I am familiar with most. Given CHN qualified 2+ women boats in 2019 WCH already, we don't have qualification to compete the continental quotas initially. We could only compete for final regatta. It seems the W LW 2x quota for CHN is an extra gift due to no more continental qualifiers. Maybe same situation for NZL. But I am not sure if am correct.

If 2019 WCH results used, China women's eight and four will qualify. It means another 13 persons can participate. That's why I care.

Why not 2019 WCH?

It's related to a huge religious gathering of 16k people in a Kuala Lumper mosque. And there are also cases of Singapore and Brunei related to it. Worrying

Most Chinese believe in the government. Because we can see the measures taken to contain the spread and effort made both by medics and government. It happened on us, not just reported by media. Most measures are very strict but effective in this special moment, like lockdown, mandatory quarantine and definitely no any forms of gathering. The cover-up at the very beginning is stupid, the shortage of medical resource of Wuhan at the early phase is troublesome and worrying, but the strong actions taken next proved working well. The virus is contained and most patients are already recovered. People outside Hubei province are back to normal life now. We experienced a silent February and everything paused for one and half month. But people think the sacrifice is worth it. All in all, people do not fear now and things back to normal gradually. People think government did wrong at the beginning but measures taken to contain it is very effective. Considering no one knows the degree of severity and infectivity at the beginning, people think government did a good job in general. One more thing, the reason why overseas Chinese flee back to China is that they think people overseas underrated the severity. The ignorance would lead to great outbreak later.

Beijing's daily new patients first time surpassed Wuhan today, 5 vs 4, and all are imported cases, from Spain, Italy and Thailand. So Beijing announces from 16th March, whoever enters Beijing from overseas must be mandatorily quarantined for 14 days in government arranged hotels with passengers' own expense. I guess this policy will soon be adopted by all Chinese ports. With huge amounts overseas Chinese flee back to China, preventing imported cases becomes the first priority.

I am listing the songs right now but I have a question. Should my voting exclude the song of my country?

I think giving the points and ranking based on the qualification is a relatively fair solution. Athletes risk their health so much to compete and earn the badly needed points. I know Netherland quit the event but Zoderland chose to stay because he needed it so badly as well as other staying athletes. Their effort and risking should be paid off. But even if Petrounias given 30 points this stage with 15.100 score is not enough to be qualify. 15.100 means it requires 15.332 next stage to surpass Liu Yang which is only theoretically possible for rings. Sad for gymnastics fans but good news for team Chinese.

Can't believe it... Chinese athletes wasted a whole month in Doha preparing for it...

He said he is negative.

I know this matter very clear. 99% Liu Yang of the ring will qualify and the tomorrow's result will make it 100%. The other two Chinese athletes can't directly qualify through this individual world cup ranking system, but one of them may be assigned by the other quota. Keikha has a great chance. His rival is not Chinese but Japanese. If he wins the gold, he will earn 30 points and total 80 points with a tie to Japanese athlete who is not on the list of this stage. There is tie break rule to compare their average score of 3 highest stages. But it's supposed to be temporary, there still comes another stage (if it will be held). In my memory that Japanese will not participate the last stage. That means Keikha has one more chance to surpass him. Edit: Though Wen Hao may not win the quota, if he wins the gold tomorrow, he will get 30 pts. If so, Keikha can not surpass the Japanese even can't share a tie.

Every country has its own traditions hence lots of habits can't be changed in a short time. I've been to Iran for traveling, people are truly very very enthusiastic, warm-heated and talkative. But as long as you keep staying at home, you are safe. It's the stupid and effective way we handle it.

Calm down bro. It's not the first and not the last "interesting" news from US media. We are so used to it and just let it be. Let me show you something reported by NY times with 20 minutes interval which shows their attitudes towards the lockdown in Wuhan and Italy. One is violation of human right and the other is sacrificing themselves to save the Europe.

If it's in May, it could just go back to China.

It is because at the beginning government enforce the policy "No Test No Patient" and then required a very strict requirement to take a test because of the shortage of test kits. But sadly the story repeated in many places again...

I am just curious about the Olympic quotas at the end of 2019, and I searched out your Weibo and this forum. Very good job, bro. You are way too professional.

I followed your Weibo a couple of months ago and I am a new sport fan. But I guess that doesn't count we know each other yet.

Traditionally, we call their given name only, the first part. Like Tuohetaerbieke, Maimaitituersun and Aihemaiti. It's the correct way to call them. But in reality, it's too long for most people, we can call" Bro Tuo" or " Small Bieke".

Very interesting question. TUOHETA ERBIEKE Tanglatihan is ethnic Kazakh, Maimaititu Ersun Qiong is ethnic Uygur. These two ethnic groups share the same naming system. The given name comes first, and surname comes after. It actually should write Tuohetaerbieke TANGLATIHAN and Maimaituersun QIONG. The given name is usually called by people, surname is father's given name, so they don't have a certain family name. But people often make mistake because of different naming system of majority of Chinese. BTW the Maimaiti means Mohammed, tuersyun is also a common Uygur name. But I totally don't know Kazakh name meaning.

That game is really dramatic, but his previous games were also not in good condition. But his quota seems confirmed, he still has time to recover.

Anybody will watch All England? a big event for Olympic ranking but seems the condition of the Asian Games champion Christie is still terrible like when he was in Asian championships.

If it's not Jordan, I am not sure how's the relationship between Arabian countries and Qatar right now, will they be against Qatar?

Lots of places in China have finished self quarantine and back to normal track. One of the phenomena is divorce reservation is fully booked, much more than usual and they have to wait for another couple of weeks to divorce. It already happened.

Does anyone know how the ranking of this qualifier associated with the Olympic seeding? Is it the only event being considered?